These are the files from The Writing Teacher Webinar on June 2, 2009.

Note: if you want to receive these articles via e-mail, follow the instructions here.

The topic of the webinar was on editing, not correcting: how to teach your students to be self aware writers while at the same time reducing you editing and correcting workload.

6 Plus 1 Traits: An eight-page scoring continuum for NWREL's 6+1 Traits of Writing

 

Why Do My Students Hate Grammar and Editing: a six page article by Jeff Anderson

 

The Express Lane Edit: Making Editing Useful for Adolescents: a five-page article by Jerome G. Harste and Christine Leland describing their journey from re-writers to editing coaches.

 

Writing Next: a sixty-page report on what works in teaching writing by Steve Graham and Dolores Perin for the Carnegie foundation.

 

Slides: the slides that Dennis used during the webinar.

As soon as we get an archive of the actual webinar, we will link to it.

We would like to thank LearningExpress eFolio for sponsoring this blog. eFolio is an automated essay scoring program, which allows teachers to assign more writing practice without the added hours of editing and correcting.