Writing and Writing and Motivation Motivation

How to get students to care How to get students to care about and take pride in their about and take pride in their

writingwriting

Provide an Authentic Provide an Authentic Audience Through…Audience Through…

Publishing

Blogging

Peer Editin

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Use collaborative writing

Make it relevant!

Use Pop Use Pop Culture Culture

Draw on Draw on Personal Personal ExperienceExperience

Ask for input from students:

Topics for papers

Creating a

rubric

Less emphasis on grades

Help student

s set

goals

Provide a safe and open classroom environment

Make writing fun!

Research Resources http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/ieo/digests/d156.html

http://cyberdash.com/weblogs-as-social-public-writing-spaces

http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2229

http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/motivate.html

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:Fl5o3OkhufsJ:www.penandpublish.com/ConsolidatedResearch.pdf+how+does+publishing+affect+student+motivation%3F&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

http://www.pcieducation.com/news/article.aspx?nId=93

Research Resources Cont.

http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource_topic/collaborative_writing

http://www.universityaffairs.ca/secret-to-good-writing-rewriting.aspx

http://www.jstor.org/stable/821862?seq=1

http://matcmadison.edu/cetl/resources/archive/data_nisod/XXIX_6.pdf

Picture Credits http://www.learnthenet.com/English/html/47difaud.htm

http://nie.lancasteronline.com/?q=node/14

http://laparisiennecentre.com/blog/nfblog/?p=2868

http://www.treehugger.com/2008/03/23-week/

http://bl022.k12.sd.us/writer.htm

http://apps.carleton.edu/its/flt/osmain/othersw/subethaedit/

http://www.contracosta.edu/library/clics/chapters/Ch1/IB.html

http://boe.ming.k12.wv.us/teachers/di/di_rubrics/The%20rubric.htm

http://notestonotso.blogspot.com/2007/08/stressing-out.html

http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-set-goals

http://kardanev.blogspot.com/2008/05/httpbrainenrichmentblogspotcom-by-sibel.html

http://www.leadershipfairfax.org/