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A Case for Teaching Biography-Driven Writing in ELA Classrooms
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Jessica Singer Early – English Journal, 2019
This article serves as an invitation to see the way the teaching of biography-driven writing has been increasingly pushed out of the secondary English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum in favor of highly structured, formulaic, and impersonal writing, and how this is a setback for students in their preparation for college and career writing. The…
Descriptors: Biographies, Writing (Composition), English Instruction, Language Arts