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Top 10 Ways To Write Good
1. Avoid Alliteration. Always.2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.3. Avoid clichés like the plague. They’re old hat.4. Comparisons are as bad as clichés.5. Be more or less specific.6. Writers should never generalize.Seven: be consistent!8. Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; don’t write in a superfluous manner.9. Who needs rhetorical questions?10. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement
(Visco, 1986)
JUST A LITTLE HUMOR TO GET US STARTED…
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Writing Instruction: A Metacognitive Modeling ApproachTINA WOOLDRIDGE
INTESOL: NOVEMBER, 2014
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Overview
• What is the purpose of writing?• What do writers say about writing?• What is a metacognitive approach?• What is a modeling approach?• How do we integrate the two?• What do researchers say about writing
instruction?• How do we assess writing?• What does a Simple Writing Instruction Plan
look like?
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What is the purpose of writing?
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The purpose of writing is...
• to communicate. • to tell a story.• to inform readers of a subject that
may be interesting or important.• to form connections with your
readers.• to share experiences.
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“We write to remind us that we are not alone in our journeys, to inform, to guide, to entertain... Sometimes the purpose of writing is just to make sense of what we are feeling inside, or to make sense of the world around us. If what we write resonates with someone else, it is empowering.”
– Leah
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Take-away #1 Help students
establish a genuine audience
and purpose for every writing task.
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Are you a writer?
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Take-away #2 Choose to see
yourself as a writer.
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What have you written in the last
two weeks?
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Writing time!
Write about a decision you made that changed your life.
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Metacognition
• awareness of one’s own knowledge • the ability to understand and control our own
learning process• includes the ability to access prior knowledge in
order to• plan for a learning task• problem solve• evaluate• reflect on our performance
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Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA) Model
Metacognitive Strategies:
• Managing Your Learning
• Planning and Organizing
• Monitoring
• Evaluating
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Successful adult L2 writers have metacognitive knowledge about: (Devine,
1993)
• who they are as writers
• features of the writing task
• appropriate strategies for
achieving their writing purposes
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Think about the writing task you just completed
1.What were you thinking about while you wrote?
2.What did you do to plan, to get started, and to
finish?
3.What did you focus on as you were writing?
4.What did the writing process look like for you? Did
you write straight through? Stop to reread? Revise
as you went? Edit?
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What do you think about while you write?
“I’m trying to figure out how to get my thoughts on the page in a cohesive way. I’m thinking about how to choose the most active words; how to show not tell. I’m thinking about how fun it is to fill the blank page with words and create new meanings... how to make the words come alive.”
– Leah
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What do you focus on as you are writing?
“I am a visual person, so I’m watching the scene happen as I write. It’s a lot like sitting in the front row of a movie jotting down who says what and when. It’s a fast-paced process, so very little effort is spent on getting words or sentences correct the first time through.”
– Don
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What does the writing process look like for you?
“I create a timeline or a simple draft before I write. This can speed up and simplify the process enormously.”
– Rob
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“Some people say a writer needs to write the whole story, even a whole novel, and just get it on the page. Then go back and edit. I’ve never been able to do that. I can’t stand leaving bad writing on the page. I feel the need to constantly go back and make it better.”
– Leah
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“Teachers must explicitly weave metacognitive
strategies into the fabric of the learning process.”
– Fogarty, 2006
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Take-away #3 Explicitly teach
students metacognitive
writing strategies, and actively remind
them to use those strategies.
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Fenghua’s study (2010)
• Enrich students’ positive writing
experiences.
• Enhance students’ metacognitive
awareness and ability.
• Strengthen students’ self-monitoring while
writing.
• Teach explicit metacognitive strategies to
improve students’ writing proficiency.
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Take-away #4 Demonstrate exactly what you are asking your students to do.
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“The teacher shows precisely how to do it by initiating, modeling, explaining, thinking aloud, and writing aloud...
“By modeling [our] own authentic writing in front of students, teachers hope learners will emulate but not imitate.”
–Regie Routman (2005)
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What do students need to become successful writers?
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Students need...
• Knowledgeable, organized teachers who show them what is expected
• Plenty of time to write• A say in what they write about• Strategies that allow them to take
ownership of their writing • Helpful responses
(Routman, 2005)
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How does this make you feel?
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“Writing was a little like crossing a minefield and hoping we wouldn’t get red-penned on our way. Crossing that minefield with short, fearful steps, we learned to write short, correct sentences that fended off red pens... but were often void of thought.”
–Peregoy & Boyle (2013, emphasis added)
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Kasper’s study (1997)
• Successful writers defined the purpose of their writing.
• That purpose was to communicate ideas to readers.
• Less proficient writers identified their purpose as writing without grammar mistakes.
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How do we assess writing?
“Be relentless in refusing to do for students what they can do for themselves.”
–Regie Routman (2005)
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Mustafa’s study (2012)
Effective corrective feedback is:• Timely• Detailed• Legible• Aligned with students’ educational needs and goals
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“Try to focus more on what the student is trying to
say, and less on what we are trying to teach.”
–Regie Routman (2005)
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Take-away #5 Reflect on your
corrective feedback philosophy, and
establish a consistent method for delivering
effective feedback.
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Simple Writing Instruction Plan
1. Help students establish a genuine audience and purpose for every writing task.
2. Choose to see yourself as a writer.3. Explicitly teach students metacognitive writing
strategies, and actively remind them to use those strategies.
4. Demonstrate exactly what you are asking your students to do.
5. Reflect on your corrective feedback philosophy, and establish a consistent method for delivering effective feedback.
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