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The Essential Skill of Writing

The Essential Skill of Writing. Voice and Word Choice An In-Depth Training Session For English Language Arts Teachers. Goals for this Workshop. Participants will Understand the key components of the traits of Voice and Word Choice

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The Essential Skill of Writing

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  1. The Essential Skill of Writing Voice and Word Choice An In-Depth Training Session For English Language Arts Teachers

  2. Goals for this Workshop Participants will • Understand the key components of the traits of Voice and Word Choice • Recognize student performance at different score levels for Voice and Word Choice • Develop expertise in scoring student writing for classroom purposes in Voice and Word Choice

  3. Voice

  4. What is voice? • Voice is the author's style, the quality that makes his or her writing unique, and which conveys the author's attitude, personality, and character; OR • Voice is the characteristic speech and thought patterns of a first-person narrator; a persona.

  5. Because voice has so much to do with the reader's experience of a work of literature, it is one of the most important elements of a piece of writing.

  6. Voice • Voice present? (commitment to topic, sincerity, other possible indicators in Scoring Guide) • Voice appropriate for topic, mode, writing situation? • Voice consistent enough?

  7. “Writing with no voice is dead, mechanical, faceless. It lacks any sound. Writing with no voice may be saying something true, important, or new; it may be logically organized; it may even be a work of genius. But it is as though the words came through some kind of mixer rather than being uttered by a person.

  8. Extreme lack of voice is characteristic of bureaucratic memos, technical engineering writing, much sociology, many textbooks.” Peter Elbow

  9. Let’s Review the Scoring Guide Highlight words and phrases that help distinguish a score of 3 from a 4 in Voice.

  10. Let’s Score some Papers!

  11. Word Choice

  12. “The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” Mark Twain

  13. Word Choice • Do the words work? Are they functional? (Consider grade level) • Enough variety? • Specific enough?

  14. Let’s Review the Scoring Guide Highlight words and phrases that help distinguish a score of 3 from a 4 in Word Choice

  15. Let’s Score some Papers!

  16. Resources to Practice Scoring • ODE High School Writing Samples: http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=527 • OPEN Scoring Site: http://www.openc.k12.or.us/scoring/ • Clackamas ESD Writing Samples http://www.clackesd.k12.or.us/cie/writing.html

  17. Thank you for your attention!

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