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ERIC Number: EJ614414
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
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.