Writing assignments that have students talk, write and read through the writing process¶

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Description¶

The second recommendation is to re-evaluate writing assignments, reconsidering the one-hour in-class essay and "developing instead assignments that encourage writers to talk, write, and read" while collecting information, focusing, designing, ordering, drafting and clarifying. A paper on a societal problem, researched by talking with authorities, is offered as an example.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Assignments encourage writers to talk, write and read as they proceed through collecting information, focusing, designing, ordering, drafting and clarifying the text for a reader.

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• College composition students

Target Learning Goals¶

• Generating consequential discourse through a dialectical writing process

Affordances¶

• Social Constructionism In Composition

Related Strategies¶

• Authentic Writing Tasks
• Process Writing

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• DeCiccio, Albert C. (1988). Social Constructionism and Collaborative Learning: Recommendations for Teaching Writing. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED294201