Enabling Key Stage 3 Students to Make Improvements to Their Own Writing  

Oleh:

Richards, Francesca

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Full Text) vol. 17 no. 1 (2010), page 79-92.
Topik: writing; revision; multiple drafting; peer editing
Fulltext: Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2010, 79–92.pdf (106.04KB)

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This paper reports a school-based investigation into revision as a means of improving writing in the English classroom. It suggests that although pupils tend to perceive revision as a teacher-directed, discrete stage in the writing process, during revision they engage in independent questioning, evaluation and employ a working model of audience as a guide to their operations. An approach to revision which involved pupils actively investigating each other’s work, combined with an emphasis on multiple-drafting, was trialled in the English Departments of two different schools. The findings suggest that this alternative approach creates a classroom context for improvement which is not teacher-centred but embraces all students and highlights the potential for revision as an active learning process.

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