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Puget Sound Writing ProjectUniversity of Washington
Teachers are the best teachers
of teachers.
Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.
Teachers who write make the best teachers of writing.
Student write more when their teachers write, too.
Low-stakes vs high stakes
What are the characteristics of high-stakes writing?
How about low stakes writing?
What is an essay, anyway?
An analytical or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view
Something resembling a composition (photographic)
Why write?
Well, you can put more things on paper then what you can say out loud. Even to a friend. I’ve said more things to a piece of paper than I would ever say to my friend.
Eighth grade student
The Journal Book
Free Writing
The Power of Listing
The List of Lists
A sixth grader’s list
What grade is this student in?
Janine’s Double List
Free write after List #2
Clustering/ Webbing
Another idea
Starting idea
Related idea
Related idea
Related ideaRelated
idea
Related idea
Another idea
Me-Maps
Another Me-map
One response to “space”
Another view of sapce
Another form of Me-map
Writing to an Audience
• Start small – have the audience be one person.
• Dialogue Journals
• Buddy Journals
Dialogue Journal
Buddy Journal
Gina and Stephanie
Close Observation
From a fifth grader’s science journal
Show, Don’t Tell
Taxonomy
• Classification, especially of plants and animals
• An orderly way to concurrently collect and classify information
Use your senses
I seeI hearI smellI touchI taste
And don’t forget
I think I feel
I rememberI know
Revising – WOWS and WONDERS
Share work with a writers group or a partner:
WOW
-- I like, I think, I felt
WONDER
-- I wonder
Recursive Revision
Revision means --
To see again.
Recursive Revision
• Revision tricks -- let the piece rest while you rest -- check for “was, is, are, were, etc.”
• Join, or create, a writers group
• Write a one-sentence premise
Editing
• Editing can mean looking for usage and punctuation errors.
• Editing can mean reading it with your specific audience in mind. This can lead back to revision.
• State the “premise” in one sentence• Read it aloud• Read it backwards.
Publicare – make it public
• Anthology• Read around• Authors chair• Authors café• Send it to an agent or publciation• Other?
Celebrate