Brown: Chapter 17 Questions
How can learning to write be compared with learning how to swim?
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Swimming is a skill that is culture specific -
i.e. some cultures don't live near water and
don't learn to swim. Writing is similar
because one can survive with speaking,
listening skills and writing is more specific
to learn cultures or individuals. (p.319)
What are the principles for designing writing techniques?
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• Incorporate practice of "good" writers.
• Balance process and product.
• Account for cultural / literary backgrounds.
• Connect reading and writing.
• Provide as much authentic writing as possible.
• Frame your techniques in terms of
prewriting, drafting, and revising stages.
Name the 5 important introductory writing skills.
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1. satisfactory reading readiness skills
2. has good motor skills for producing
legible printing
3. knows and can print the alphabet
4. recognize and can produce from written form:
• vowels, consonants
• words and syllables
• upper and lower case
• basic spelling
• common sight words
• rhyming words
• punctuation
• phrases and sentences
5. has motor skills to write incursive
What are the 6 general categories on which you should base evaluation of student writing?
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1. content
2. organization
3. discourse
4. syntax
5. vocabulary
6. mechanics (p.342-3)
What are some practices of "good" writers?
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"Good writers":
• focus on a goal or main idea
• gauge their audience
• spend time planning (not too much)
• let ideas flow on paper
• follow an organized plan
• solicit feedback
• revise work
What are the 3 historical issues discussed with teaching skills and what is the significance of each?
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1. Process vs product
2. Constrastive rhetoric
3. Authenticity
What is free writing?
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It is designed to help the free ideas
that you might have. You write without
being concerned about spelling,
grammar, or punctuation.
What is the difference between "real" writing and "display" writing?
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real writing:
reader doesn't know the "answer" and
genuinely wants information
display writing:
reader is checking the knowledge of
the writer; there is a "right"
answer (324)
What is the two-step process mentioned by Peter Elbow?
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1. figure out your meaning;
2. put it into language
What are some important aspects of self-writing?
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note taking, diary or journal,
dialogue journal
What is controlled writing?
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a paragraph where the students
need to alter a given structure;
ex: change tenses (328)
What does the process approach to writing instruction attempt to do?
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1. focus on the process of writing
2. helps students to understand
their own composing process
3. help students build repertoires
of strategies
4. give students time to write
and rewrite
5. place central importance on
process or revision
6. let students discover what they
want to say as they write
7. give students feedback
throughout composing process
8. encourage feedback from both
instructor and peers
9. include individual conferences
during process
Writing has been erroneously considered a solitary activity. What techniques can be used to make writing an interactive activity?
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1. pair and group work to generate
topic ideas and to problem solve
2. peer editing
3. dialogue journals
4. personal communication among students
5. student/teacher conferences for feedback
(328,330,333-335,337-340)
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1998 ©
Dr. Lynn E. Henrichsen
Department of Linguistics
Brigham Young University
Last Updated: Saturday, January 24, 1998
