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15. The Write Path: Guiding Writers to Self-Reliance


 
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1. Title Title of document 15. The Write Path: Guiding Writers to Self-Reliance - The College Writing Toolkit
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Lisa Nazarenko; University of Vienna;
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Gillian Schwartz; University of Vienna;
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Composition; English; Linguistics
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) writing instruction; student writing; composition; academic writing; student writing; academic discourses; rhetorical awareness; English for academic purposes
 
5. Subject Subject classification English language teaching; writing skills
 
6. Description Abstract Developing students’ reflectivity through guided self-assessment in every stage of a writing activity is the theme of Lisa Nazarenko and Gillian Schwarz’s chapter, “The Write Path: Guiding Writers to Self-Reliance.” Nazarenko and Schwarz regard such reflectivity as a key aspect of improving student writing and comment that can take some time to achieve. They present a set of activities they have used with second-language students in the second semester of a first-year university writing course, structured around writing an opinion essay. Key features of their teaching approach are guidelines for the assignment, model texts, hands-on interaction in the classroom, controlled prewriting, peer consultation and feedback, focused feedback from the instructor that mirrors the assignment guidelines, revision and redrafting, workshops and conferencing, and the use of structured reflection and feedback sheets throughout the process. The authors point out that, since the activity is broken down into clear steps, it is flexible and easy to adapt to different teaching situations and ability levels. They also point out that it is easier to address problems with student work at the prewriting stage than to fix them later – a point with which many instructors will doubtless concur.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 01-Jun-2011
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/25920
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.25920
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; The College Writing Toolkit
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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19. Rights Copyright and permissions Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd