Puget Sound Writing Project University of Washington

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Puget Sound Writing ProjectUniversity of
Washington
Teachers who write make the best teachers of
writing.

• Teachers are the best teachers
• of teachers.

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Teachers who write make the best teachers of
writing.
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Student write more when their teachers write, too.
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Low-stakes vs high stakes

• What are the characteristics of high-stakes
  writing?
• How about low stakes writing?

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What is an essay, anyway?

• An analytical or interpretative literary
  composition usually dealing with its subject from
  a limited or personal point of view

Something resembling a composition (photographic)
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Why write?

• Well, you can put more things on paper then
  what you can say out loud. Even to a friend.
  Ive said more things to a piece of paper than I
  would ever say to my friend.
• Eighth grade student
• The Journal Book

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Free Writing
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The Power of Listing
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The List of Lists
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A sixth graders list
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What grade is this student in?
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Janines Double List
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Free write after List 2
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Clustering/ Webbing
Related idea

• Related idea

Related idea
Another idea
Starting idea
Related idea
Related idea
Another idea
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Me-Maps
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Another Me-map
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One response to space
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Another view of sapce
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Another form of Me-map
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Writing to an Audience

• Start small have the audience be one person.
• Dialogue Journals
• Buddy Journals

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Dialogue Journal
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Buddy Journal
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Gina and Stephanie
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Close Observation
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From a fifth graders science journal
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Show, Dont Tell
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Taxonomy

• Classification, especially of plants and animals
• An orderly way to concurrently collect and
  classify information

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Use your senses

• I see
• I hear
• I smell
• I touch
• I taste

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And dont forget

• I think
• I feel
• I remember
• I know

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Revising WOWS and WONDERS

• Share work with a writers group or a partner
• WOW
• -- I like, I think, I felt
• WONDER
• -- I wonder

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Recursive Revision

• Revision means --
• To see again.

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Recursive Revision

• Revision tricks
• -- let the piece rest while you rest
• -- check for was, is, are, were, etc.
• Join, or create, a writers group
• Write a one-sentence premise

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Editing

• Editing can mean looking for usage and
  punctuation errors.
• Editing can mean reading it with your specific
  audience in mind. This can lead back to
  revision.
• State the premise in one sentence
• Read it aloud
• Read it backwards.

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Publicare make it public

• Anthology
• Read around
• Authors chair
• Authors café
• Send it to an agent or publciation
• Other?

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• Celebrate