Writing in the content areas /
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| Author / Creator: | Benjamin, Amy, 1951- |
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Imprint: | Larchmont, N.Y. : Eye on Education, [2005] ©2005 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 169 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Secondary) Language arts -- Correlation with content subjects. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric. REFERENCE -- Writing Skills. English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Secondary) Language arts -- Correlation with content subjects. Electronic book. Electronic books. |
| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11302889 |
| Summary: | Do you spend entirely too much time correcting your students' papers? Do your students' essays and term papers take side trips to nowhere? Is their writing riddled with mechanical errors? Do their lab reports and essays lack specificity and clarity? <p>Writing in the Content Areas, Second Edition is for middle and high school content area teachers who assign essays, term papers, lab reports, and other writing tasks to students. This book provides strategies and tips to help teachers of social studies, science, art, etc. improve the quality of students' writing and apply national and state curriculum standards in your classroom. The strategies in this book can be integrated easily into every teacher's daily plans. They will help your students improve their abilities to<br> - reflect before writing<br> - organize and classify<br> - provide detail without padding<br> - use technical terminology correctly<br> - avoid unnecessary words<br> - spell correctly<br> - take useful notes while they read and during your lectures.<br> <br> This book will help teachers<br> - get what they want from a writing task<br> - frame their assignments more precisely<br> - correct student papers more quickly and efficiently<br> <br> The new second edition offers activities and strategies which involve technology (word processing, presentation programming, the Internet, and e-communications), differentiated instruction, and brain-based learning.</p> |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 169 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781317925729 1317925726 9781614421054 1614421056 1596670029 9781596670020 |