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Teaching Writing Effectively

This workshop offers solid training in process writing, providing feedback on students’ writing, conducting peer reviews, writing assessment and error correction. Trainees will be provided with hand-on training in providing feedback on students’ writing, conducting peer reviews, and in error correction. The workshop will be supplemented with handouts and videos.

This is a full-day workshop.

Teaching Writing Effectively

AGENDA

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1. L2 Acquisition Models and the Teaching of Writing

     Reading: “More reading leads to better writing”

2. Teacher Response to Student Writing

     Readings: Donald Daiker: “Learning to praise”

                 “Providing feedback on students’ writing”

                 “Essay feedback checklist”

3. Peer Response

     Readings: Robert Mittan: “The peer review process . . .”

     “Peer review for assignment 1”

4. Error Correction

     Readings: Dana Ferris: “The case for grammar correction . . .”

     “For students: Strategies for self-editing”

5. Writing Assessment

     Readings: George Braine: “When an exit test fails”

     “Criteria for assessing writing”

6. Researching Writing (Optional)

Movie: “Writers’ Workshop” (11 minutes)