Strategies for Struggling Writers - Softcover

Collins, James L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157230300X ISBN 13: 9781572303003

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1997

Synopsis

Integrating the teaching of writing skills and writing processes, this book presents a collaborative approach to working with struggling writers in grades five through twelve, in both general and special education settings. Unlike purely process-oriented approaches, which hold that skills are acquired intuitively through writing and revising, strategic writing instruction sees the acquisition of key skills as integrally related to effective self-expression. Based on extensive research, the book describes how teachers and students can work together to develop writing strategies--thinking procedures for solving problems ranging from spelling a word correctly to planning a whole project. Illustrative case studies demonstrate how the co-construction and implementation of writing strategies can help students formulate and achieve their own personal writing goals. Integrating the teaching of writing skills and writing processes, this book presents a collaborative approach to working with struggling writers in grades five through twelve, in both general and special education settings. Unlike purely process-oriented approaches, which hold that skills are acquired intuitively through writing and revising, strategic writing instruction sees the acquisition of key skills as integrally related to effective self-expression. Based on extensive research, the book describes how teachers and students can work together to develop writing strategies--thinking procedures for solving problems ranging from spelling a word correctly to planning a whole project. Illustrative case studies demonstrate how the co-construction and implementation of writing strategies can help students formulate and achieve their own personal writing goals.
 

About this title

About the Author:

James L. Collins, EdD, State University of New York at Buffalo

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Preface
1. Acquisition and Learning and Writing Instruction
2. Strategies and Performances
3. Teaching Writing Strategies
4. Writing Strategies Are Not Formulas (But Formulas Can Be Used Strategically)
5. Writing Development and Default Writing Strategies
6. Bringing Together Old and New Writing Strategies
7. Adapting Strategic Writing Instruction to Particular Contexts
8. Strategies, Identity, and Resistance

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 157230300X
• ISBN 13: 9781572303003
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244