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Brown, Mary – Teaching History, 2013
Mary Brown recognised that her A-level students were finding extended writing difficult, particularly in terms of guiding the reader through the argument with appropriate "signposting". To help her students manage this, Brown devised a metaphor to represent the construction of a piece of argumentative writing which she deployed over a…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Figurative Language, Writing Difficulties, Writing Improvement
Goldstein, Arnold A.; Carr, Peggy G. – NAEPfacts, 1996
This edition of "NAEPfacts" discusses the frequency with which process-oriented activities are taught in United States schools, and the writing performance of students whose teachers emphasize these activities. Data were drawn from the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in Writing, which was administered to a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 8