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Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits
Nancy Mullins ESL/Bilingual Programs DirectorMaine Department of Education
January 26, 2012
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Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits
Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits. You need direct
instruction, templates and modeling. To ensure that the papers are cooked properly –
follow the recipe.
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DIRECT INSTRUCTION
“If it is important, it should be intentional.”
Stephen Covey
Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits
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EXPLICIT DIRECTIONS
Providing explicit directions
is NOT cheating – it is support .
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Be careful what you ask for
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Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits
Draw on existing communication skills - oral
Speakers Speak like Listeners Listen
I‘ll tell you three reasons why you can’t stay out on a school night.
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Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits
Writers Write like Readers Read and the Reader is Stupid
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Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits
Writers Write Like Readers Read
Reader’s Opinions Letter to
the Editor
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Academic Language of an Orange
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TEMPLATES
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Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits
Color within the lines –
give the lines then work on improving coloring within
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Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits
Templates provide a technique, a constant
Step-by-step
Templates provide the requirements for meeting the standard
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Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits
Discrete skills (grammar,
syntax, vocabulary), sequence,
transition, cloze
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Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits
Template: They Say I Say
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Template: Sentence, Paragraph, Essay
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Template: Checklist for Paragraph for Essay
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MODEL
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Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits
Use the template in your teaching
Expose them
Allow them to observe others
Practice, practice, practice
Write every day
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Teaching Academic Writing is like Making Biscuits
Jigsaw
Expand/Collapse
Group – thesis, sentence, paragraph, essay
Outline
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Having the recipe to write allows for critical thinking
Academic writing requires thinking – with evidence, point of view, cause/effect, conjecture-what if and social-so what.
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Resources
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Thank you
