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ERIC Number: EJ614420
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
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Interior Design: Revision as Focus.
Smede, Shelly D.
English Journal, v90 n1 p117-21 Sep 2000
Describes how the author teaches her eighth-grade students to revise their writing, providing "working revision days" in class, offering direction and structure, and thereby helping students learn how much impact going back to a piece of writing and making sweeping changes can have on the end result. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 8, Instructional Improvement, Revision (Written Composition), Secondary Education, Writing Assignments, 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.