... within these arguments, through agreeing with a particular argument and/or presenting 'original' opinions or ideas. Crucially, they must learn the 'codes' of presentation required in order to communicate this authorial 'voice'. Sometimes the requirements to get a good grade are not exactly transparent, where students are subject to a large amount of guesswork in order to survive this grading game whose rules are ... are not made known. The lack of clarity on the requirements of a piece of writing led students to "believe to be the main ground rules of the presentation of their 'voice'. I...

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• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: High School

... help you on the next assignment. In addition, much of the classwork and many of the daily activities we do simply cannot be "made up " since they focus on your active engagement with others' ideas. If you miss these, and they are graded, you may earn a 0 that cannot be made-up. Bearing this in mind, I do accept other late work within ... or paragraphs. Organization is confused and fragmented in support of the essay's purpose and demonstrates a lack of structure or coherence that negatively affects readability. Style sentence structure word choice tone voice verb tense purposeful punctua...

• Word Count: 6229
• Approx Pages: 25
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• Grade Level: High School

... learn through interaction, exploration, and experimentation. Among these things, I plan to teach balanced literacy in my first grade classroom. My classroom will be student centered, encouraging my students to be active participants. They will be encouraged to explore and seek out new things on their own. Inclusion is very important in my classroom, as it should be in any classroom. I will ... areas they could use more intensive instruction. Some of the areas in writing that my students may need improvement in come from the 6 write traits, and they are ideas, organization, voice, word c...

• Word Count: 3469
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• Grade Level: High School

... , it only flickered. I have not written any other children's stories, and the flickering of passion experienced in grade school blew out after moving to the states in the tow of active-duty parents. I hoped to be an author, but I had quit writing for fun, resorting instead to TAAS practice and assigned writing with great fervor, hoping that in formal writing I would ... . Of course, it's always somewhere inside of me, but you could say that it's subdued in certain environments. More than not, in my academic classes as well as electives, my voice is quite often soft and low. While during t...

• Word Count: 2564
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• Grade Level: High School