Teaching Writing Strategies

Teaching Writing Strategies
We recommend a four-step instructional process for teaching writing strategies.
http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/org/writingstrategies/steps.htm
The steps are these:



1. Identify a strategy worth teaching
Identifying strategies worth teaching means looking for strategies that will be genuinely helpful. In the case of struggling writers, strategies worth teaching are the ones which will help them overcome their writing difficulties. In our research we have decided that the best way to identify such strategies is by talking with struggling writers, asking them about how they write, what they think about while writing, and what they see as difficulties. Additional insight can be gained by studying student papers to infer where writers are having difficulty and by observing writers at work.