2nd Edition

Writing in the Content Areas

By Amy Benjamin Copyright 2005
184 Pages
by Eye On Education

184 Pages
by Eye On Education

184 Pages
by Eye On Education

Do you spend entirely too much time correcting your students' papers? Do your students' essays and term papers take side trips to nowhere? Is their writing riddled with mechanical errors? Do their lab reports and essays lack specificity and clarity? Writing in the Content Areas, Second Edition is for middle and high school content area teachers who assign essays, term papers, lab reports, and... Read more
Foreword
Introduction
User's Guide
Part I: Steps and Strategies
1 Guiding Principles for Teachers
2 Framing and Evaluating the Task
3 Support: Making the Case
4 Short Statements: In Fifty Words or Less
5 Vocabulary: Word for Word
6 Organizers: Frames, Clusters, and Stems
Part II: Applications
7 Research Papers and WebQuests
8 Notebooks and Journals: I Write, Therefore I Think
9 Note-Taking: For Future Reference
10 Writing Centers
Appendix: A Workshop for Teachers

Biography

Amy Benjamin