Sunday, January 31, 2010
My thoughts on Specific Craft
I found many good points in chapters 4 and 5 of Crafting Writers. One technique she pointed out was "zooming in" on a writing. This type of revision is where students look only at a specific part of their entry and revise or expand the entry on another piece of paper. I have always found it hard to revise an entire paper. It can be somewhat overwhelming. This technique allows you to just focus on a small portion of a paper and expand on it, creating a better written paper in the end. I think it is a great revision tool, and it is a technique I will want my future students to use in their writing. There are many ways to make writing come alive to a reader. Just using adjectives to make the reader see or hear what you are writing makes a piece of writing seem more real to the reader. There are many good writing crafts in these chapters that I will bring into my future classroom.
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I also liked how they demonstrated specific ways teachers could focus on encouraging students to think of ways to include detail into their writing. I appreciate you explaining your own personal experience about how you sometimes felt overwhelmed while revising a paper, especially at a young age. As future teachers, I feel as if it is necessary for us to remember these feelings of our childhood in order for us to not allow students today to have these similar feelings, at least as much as we can.
ReplyDeleteYou are right! Overwhelmed is how many writers feel when facing revision.
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