K12> TNC Times: "Righting Our Approach to Writing"
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Subject: TNC Times: "Righting Our Approach to Writing"
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TNC Times
Volume 4, Issue 3
February 24, 2003
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THE EDITOR'S COLUMN:
"Righting our Approach to Writing" by John Raymond
"Blame television, video games, schools or the drinking water, American
students have trouble writing well. At least that what the statistics say.
Consider results from the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress
(the "Nation's Report Card"): Students in grades 4, 8 and 12 only
demonstrated a "proficient" level of writing 22%, 25% and 21% of the time.
[fn 1] There is no shortage of anecdotal evidence either, such as this
lamentation by a retired college professor: "By l985 all but the best
students at Middlebury could not write a verbally correct or stylistically
interesting page...any college teacher will tell you virtually the same
story." [fn 2] How did we arrive at this point? Who or what is to blame?
Is it teachers who abandoned rigorous writing instruction?
Is this state of affairs simply a natural consequence of our modern media
culture?
In the end it matters not who or what we blame but how we respond. And it's in
this
spirit that I'd like to suggest some principles for writing instruction and
an exercise designed to make essay writing more manageable and edifying for
students, particularly those in middle and upper grades..."
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"Online Writing and Grammar Exercises"
The National Council of Teachers of English has a resource-rich website,
including a page where teachers submit writing exercises.
http://serv1.ncte.org/teach/write.shtml
Capital Community College in Connecticut has an online interactive quiz bank
with useful exercises on everything from identifying parts of speech to
subject-verb agreement.
http://cctc2.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm
Merit Software publishes a limited but intriguing online writing-assistance
tool. It's only a teaser for their full-price writing software but may be
worth visiting in a class exercise.
http://www.paragraphpunch.com/
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