Motivating Middle School Students To Revise and Edit.

Conner, Angela M.; Moulton, Margaret R.

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ERIC Number: EJ614414

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2000

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Motivating Middle School Students To Revise and Edit.

Conner, Angela M.; Moulton, Margaret R.

English Journal, v90 n1 p72-79 Sep 2000

Describes how the author used research booklets to be read by sixth graders, poetry books, and taking part in a city-wide writing competition with her eighth-grade students to combat a general apathy in many students' writing efforts. Suggests the projects spoke to individual interests, helped students find a purpose to write, and improved the quality of student work. (SR)

Descriptors: Editing, Grade 8, Middle Schools, Revision (Written Composition), Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Writing Assignments, Writing Attitudes, Writing for Publication, Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Note: Theme: Teaching Writing in the Twenty-First Century.