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Revolution in Writing Instruction
1. The Revolution Has Begun High School Teachers, Take Notice: Maggie Cotto ENC 6712 December 6, 2009
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3. To suggest new instructional goals proven to increase learning proficiency in writing skills.
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5. 2003: This Commission publishes a report calling for a revolution in writing instruction entitled “The Neglected ‘R’: The Need for a Writing Revolution.”
6. February, 2009: President Obama signs a stimulus law that “requires states receiving stabilization money to work to improve courses and tests so that high school graduates can succeed without remedial classes.”
18. New education students would take a course in writing theory and practice before obtaining a teaching certificate.
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20. Standards and curriculums must be aligned across content, so that all teachers are responsible for writing instruction.
21. Assessments should provide students with adequate time to write and should require students to actually create a piece of prose.
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25. Recent Research in Writing Pedagogy Scholars have recently revisited the field of writing instruction and have come to view writing in fresh terms, leading to changes in college writing curricula. Now, this scholarship and these changes need to reach the high school level.
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27. The social dimension of the activity of writing involves the relationship between the writer and the audience, as well as the socially-constructed artifacts that the writer makes use of during the activity of writing.
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30. To participate successfully in the academic discourse of their community, students must be taught discipline-specific conventions and should practice using these conventions.
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35. Grammar and mechanics are contextualized and there is greater motivation to create error-free work.
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37. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes.
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39. Perform Internet research to locate and relate current news stories to short story plots and conflicts.
40. Design, create and use web texts, blogs, online writing portfolios, audio essays, and other digital compositions.
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42. More than a million college freshmen across the nation must take remedial courses each year, and many drop out before getting a degree.
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44. Allow them to practice analytical writing in various content areas.
45. Align high school classroom objectives with college composition areas of focus, including:
46. The use of argument in compositions, including a claim, evidence, and acknowledgement of objections.
49. The Florida College Entry-Level Placement Test will be administered to high school students at the beginning of the tenth grade for the purpose of obtaining counseling regarding future college and career planning and for the purpose of providing remedial instruction that may be appropriate.
54. Educators, in turn, need to make administrators and policymakers aware of necessary changes to curricula and testing criteria.
55. In the classroom, teachers need to see and teach writing as social, cognitive, and textual, rather than isolated or immediately producible.
56. Technology will continue to be implemented in schools and workplaces, which means that teachers and students must be mindful of writing standards, even while utilizing multimedia programs in replacement of pen and paper.
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