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Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking?

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Sandra Giles Volume 1 Chapter Description This essay explains to students that reflective writing involves their thinking about their own thinking. They may be asked to reflect about their audience and purpose for a piece of writing. They may write about their invention, drafting, revision, and editing processes. They may self-assess or evaluate their writing, […]

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From Topic to Presentation: Making Choices to Develop Your Writing

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Beth L. Hewett Volume 1 Chapter Description Students need to learn how to revise their writing based on readers’ feedback, but they rarely know how to make such decisions. This chapter teaches students how to make decisions about essay development and revision by modeling and explaining a writing teacher’s decision-making process. Every semester, I ask

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Ten Ways to Think about Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Students

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E. Shelley Reid Volume 2 Chapter Description Writing is hard. It’s harder if your students think of it as a collection of arbitrary rules than if they think of it as a human communication process they already understand a lot about. Using comparisons to familiar events (doing laundry, making fruit Jell-O, writing thank-you notes, and

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