Helping Young Writers Master the Craft

Download or read book Helping Young Writers Master the Craft written by Karen R. Harris and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second distinctive feature is the authors' contention that students become autonomous writers when they can regulate or manage the elements in their writing themselves. The authors' program for developing autonomous writers integrates teaching writing strategies concurrently with self regulating techniques. They provide verbatim accounts of teachers' use of the program with students, and examples of students' writing before and after the program. Chapters on how to evaluate the effectiveness of the classroom writing program, and 'The Trick of It' - tips for implementing the writing strategy teaching programs conclude the book.