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Why Use an Essay Counterclaim?
Where is the best place to put the essay counterclaim? Five placements serve different purposes within the argumentative essay.
Where to Put the Essay Counterclaim
Where is the best place to put the essay counterclaim? Five placements serve different purposes within the argumentative essay.
What is the Essay Counterclaim?
As is often the case, instructional writing terminology can be confusing and there is no consensus as to a common language of instruction. Regarding the essay…
Essay Writing Style
Although teachers exert considerable effort in showing students the differences between the narrative and essay genre, the both stories and essays do share some common writing…
How to Grade Writing
How can we effectively assess student writing? Should we grade upon effort, completion, standards, achievement, or improvement? Is our primary task to respond or to grade?…
Writer’s Workshop Mini-Conferences
With Writer’s Workshop, teachers typically organize a one-hour workshop so that at least half of the time is devoted to writing, peer conferences, and writer-teacher mini-conferences.…
Differentiating Instruction in Writer’s Workshop
Critics of Writer’s Workshop often complain that Writer’s Workshop can be inefficient and/or a class management nightmare. Neither of those criticisms concerns me greatly. However, I…
How to Write a Summary
Learning how to write a summary is a valuable skill. Learning how to teach what is and what is not a summary may be even more…