The Confident Writing Teacher

" If Shelley Barker's description rings true, then you know that students need more than corrections to thrive as writers.

Author: Shelley Barker

Publisher: Heinemann

ISBN: 0325021686

Category: Education

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"If you are currently a member of the teaching profession, it is very likely that you were never taught to write. Shocked? Think about it. Certainly, we wrote, but what did writing instruction look like when you were a kid? Do you remember receiving any? I do not remember being taught to write. My language arts teachers focused on those things that could be measured and counted as right or wrong, like parsing sentences, identifying linking verbs, and making sure those darned participles didn't dangle." If Shelley Barker's description rings true, then you know that students need more than corrections to thrive as writers. In this practical and uplifting guide, Shelley invites you into her classroom and shares: guidance for nurturing yourself as a writer strategies for building a community of writers in your classroom tools for building lessons and addressing areas of student need models of feedback that motivates writers rubrics that make assessment valuable to students. "Take what you need from your writing past-the positive experiences, the times when you felt successful, the times when writing made sense to you-and leave the rest-the red ink, the negative or empty comments, the references to your spelling and penmanship," Shelley says. "We need to produce confident writers who when faced with difficult writing tasks may not know how to begin, but trust that they have the skills and perseverance to find the way."
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Seven Steps to Confident Writing

They long to be held securely in the hands of a writer who is in command. It takes
a confident writer to resist filling in all the blanks at the end. The less confident
writer is more likely to veer in the direction of the Aesop's fables model, providing
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Author: Alan Gelb

Publisher: New World Library

ISBN: 9781608685448

Category: Reference

Page: 272

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Not everyone is a natural writer. In fact, most people don't think that much about writing until they'e called upon to write something like an office memo or a wedding speech and find themselves paralyzed with self-doubt. Author and writing coach Alan Gelb specializes in helping anxious writers find their voice, drawing upon techniques that can improve anyone's writing, sometimes in a matter of days. His compact and easy-to-use guide demystifies the writing process and shows readers how to sculpt concise sentences, shape well-structured paragraphs, polish a final draft, and combat procrastination. Best of all, readers will see for themselves that writing is not an inborn talent but a skill that can be mastered with a bit of patience and perseverance.
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Creating Confident Writers For High School College and Life

The first area of growth, choosing her critical literary theory and doing
subsequent research about it, led to a realization that occurred only through the
process of writing. She describes her first territory as the use of critical theory: If I'
m being ...

Author: Troy Hicks

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN: 9780393714173

Category: Education

Page: 208

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Writing should be for an audience other than a teacher, and for a purpose beyond getting a grade. Connecting their classroom experience to research about writing, as well as to framing documents in the field, two seasoned writing teachers distill the lessons they’ve learned about creating confident adolescent and young adult writers. Troy Hicks and Andy Schoenborn outline a fundamental stance to their approach—to invite, encourage, and celebrate students’ writing—that is then echoed in the book’s three-part structure. There are numerous classroom activities and assignments on topics from creating writing goals to supporting revision, examples of student work, and questions to guide teachers’ reflections. In this book for any teacher of writing, from middle school through college, readers are invited to try strategies and allow students’ voices to emerge, while discussing with colleagues how these approaches might work for them, too.
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Developing Writers in Higher Education

Students such as Adrienne and Linda demonstrated in different ways the shaping
influences of high school writing on college student writers. Adrienne, whom
Wilson and Post introduce in chapter 1, arrived on campus as a confident writer ...

Author: Anne R Gere

Publisher: U OF M DIGT CULT BOOKS

ISBN: 9780472037384

Category: Education

Page: 384

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For undergraduates following any course of study, it is essential to develop the ability to write effectively. Yet the processes by which students become more capable and ready to meet the challenges of writing for employers, the wider public, and their own purposes remain largely invisible. Developing Writers in Higher Education shows how learning to write for various purposes in multiple disciplines leads college students to new levels of competence. This volume draws on an in-depth study of the writing and experiences of 169 University of Michigan undergraduates, using statistical analysis of 322 surveys, qualitative analysis of 131 interviews, use of corpus linguistics on 94 electronic portfolios and 2,406 pieces of student writing, and case studies of individual students to trace the multiple paths taken by student writers. Topics include student writers’ interaction with feedback; perceptions of genre; the role of disciplinary writing; generality and certainty in student writing; students’ concepts of voice and style; students’ understanding of multimodal and digital writing; high school’s influence on college writers; and writing development after college. The digital edition offers samples of student writing, electronic portfolios produced by student writers, transcripts of interviews with students, and explanations of some of the analysis conducted by the contributors. This is an important book for researchers and graduate students in multiple fields. Those in writing studies get an overview of other longitudinal studies as well as key questions currently circulating. For linguists, it demonstrates how corpus linguistics can inform writing studies. Scholars in higher education will gain a new perspective on college student development. The book also adds to current understandings of sociocultural theories of literacy and offers prospective teachers insights into how students learn to write. Finally, for high school teachers, this volume will answer questions about college writing.
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Base Realignment and Closure

This is what the confident writer makes plain to his reader . Hedging is used
because writers believe it is an excellent means of self - protection . But lets take
a longer view of this fault . Who gives the best impression ? Who has the most job
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ISBN: MINN:30000002462806

Category: Military bases

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The Confident Student

The student says, “Either I do my algebra homework or my essays for the writing
class, but I can't do both.” Actually, the student can do both, as many students do.
By acknowledging only two alternatives, the student limits the possibilities for ...

Author: Carol C. Kanar

Publisher: Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9781285500096

Category: Education

Page: 384

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Building confidence through accomplishment remains at the heart of THE CONFIDENT STUDENT. This practical and accessible text features self-discovery, self-assessment and confidence-building activities to keep students motivated and help them develop the skills they need to be successful in all of their courses. The Eighth Edition delivers more explicit critical-thinking instruction in every chapter. New Thinking with Bloom activities encourage active reading and processing of information by guiding students through the six levels of thinking as they reflect on chapter concepts. In addition, more intentional practice of reflective thinking is provided in the fully revised Your Reflections exercises at the end of every chapter. New questions and writing prompts invite students to engage in self-reflection for the purpose of assessing progress, discovering strengths, and addressing weaknesses. Available with InfoTrac Student Collections http://gocengage.com/infotrac. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
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The Literary World

The object of the confident writer appears , in western phrase- had , in his retired
position , read the often writer of this examination is limited to a few ology , to
have gone off “ half - cocked , ” having vague and puerile accounts of travellers ...

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ISBN: CHI:74727934

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The Dublin Review

... forward and talk gravely about Gallican principles ; and if we may in any
degree judge from experience this will not be until many a confident writer has
been called to account for assuming as admitted facts all the monstrous fictions
which M.

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ISBN: CORNELL:31924065584819

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Journal of Developmental Education

Grassroots with Readings : The Writer's Workbook , 9e The LEAST Available
Now ! ... Popular Continuous Discourse exercises use tidbits from The Confident
Writer Carol C. Kanar history , literature , science , and current events to engage ...

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ISBN: OSU:32435077146611

Category: Compensatory education

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Fundamentals of Essay Writing

VI CONCLUSION In conclusion , the good writer is the confident writer . The good
writer is confident because s / he has spent time investigating and thinking
through his / her subject . The good writer knows that language is his / her
birthright ...

Author: Erskine Peters

Publisher:

ISBN: UCSC:32106009497212

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 72

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Everyone can improve his or her writing ability. Effective essay writing is an acquired skill. It is not a subject so much as it is a process based on techniques. The techniques can be incorporated into one's consciousness and drawn upon according to one's particular needs and at one's convenience. The questions, answers, and examples presented here are intended to aid in the acquisition of these skills. Dr. Erskine Peters received his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University. He is a graduate of Paine College and has also studied at Yale University and Oberlin College. He was Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to that he was Associate Professor of African-American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Peters is also the author of "William Faulker: The Yoknapatawpha World and Black Being" and "African Openings to the Tree of Life."
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Write to the Limit

The confident writer says , with William Burroughs , “ I don't make myself work . It's
just the thing I want to do . " The following brief portraits highlight the joys of some
confident writers . These writers are of different ages and backgrounds .

Author: Chris Thaiss

Publisher: Fort Worth, TX : Holt, Rinehart and Winston

ISBN: 0030140927

Category: English language

Page: 384

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The Basics of Essay Writing

This text offers the new or under-confident essay writer all the guidance and advice needed to develop and improve their skills.

Author: Nigel Warburton

Publisher:

ISBN: 9780415239998

Category: Education

Page: 117

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Essay writing is an essential skill for students at all academic levels, and the ability to produce clear, well-argued essays is key to good coursework and passing exams. This text offers the new or under-confident essay writer all the guidance and advice needed to develop and improve their skills.
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The Writing Teacher s Companion

The book features strong coverage of argument and a rich collection of readings
and now presents clearer coverage of the writing process . Kanar , The Confident
Writer , 1994 , 484 pp 151 APPENDIX B A BRIEF GUIDE TO HOUGHTON ...

Author: Rai Peterson

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Division

ISBN: UOM:49015002821545

Category: Education

Page: 161

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Here is everything the new composition instructor or teaching assistant needs to know, in a compact, affordable book. The book covers every aspect of teaching a course, from preparing a syllabus and promoting class discussion to evaluating papers, managing peer groups, and teaching the writing process. Peterson surveys the many methods of teaching, including portfolio assessment, collaborative writing, and computer-based writing.
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Writing Frameworks

Provides information, examples, and reproducible aids to effectively teach writing in the elementary school classroom.

Author: David Whitehead

Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited

ISBN: 9781551381541

Category: Education

Page: 88

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Provides information, examples, and reproducible aids to effectively teach writing in the elementary school classroom.
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Great Writing 3 From Great Paragraphs to Great Essays

Updated in this Edition: Clearly organized units offer the practice students need to become effective independent writers.

Author: Keith S. Folse

Publisher: Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9780357735657

Category: Foreign Language Study

Page: 50

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The new edition of the Great Writing series provides clear explanations, extensive models of academic writing and practice to help learners write great sentences, paragraphs, and essays. With expanded vocabulary instruction, sentence-level practice, and National Geographic content to spark ideas, students have the tools they need to become confident writers. Updated in this Edition: Clearly organized units offer the practice students need to become effective independent writers. Each unit includes: Part 1: Elements of Great Writing teaches the fundamentals of organized writing, accurate grammar, and precise mechanics. Part 2: Building Better Vocabulary provides practice with carefully-selected, level-appropriate academic words. Part 3: Building Better Sentences helps writers develop longer and more complex sentences. Part 4: Writing activities allow students to apply what they have learned by guiding them through writing, editing, and revising. Part 5: New Test Prep section gives a test-taking tip and timed task to prepare for high-stakes standardized tests, including IELTs and TOEFL. The new guided online writing activity takes students through the entire writing process with clear models for reference each step of the way. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
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How to Write While You Sleep

Say to yourself ten times : " I ' m am an intelligent , confident person . I feel good
about ... Writing is one of them . Whether my ... The confident writer expends less
energy on worry , and therefore has more energy to keep writing . “ Every act ...

Author: Elizabeth Irvin Ross

Publisher:

ISBN: 0890876886

Category: Self-Help

Page: 254

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Gives practical advice on breaking writer's block, making the most productive use of writing time, improving one's fiction and nonfiction, and selling one's work.
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