Improving Student Writing Skills - cse crafts

The Writing Process
Additionally, publishing is central to the implementation
of Authentic Writing (as discussed in Chapter 2),
which, you will remember, includes the pairing of choice
and purpose. How and where you publish student writing
will determine whether it in fact has purpose or
whether the writing was simply an exercise. The writing
workshop format, and thus your writing-process class,
is helped greatly by intrinsic motivation. Publishing
student writing as part of a class magazine, in the school
newsletter, or potentially even in a local or national
magazine can be a powerful motivation for students to
turn in their best work (Weber, 2002).
The obvious publishing task is for students to rewrite
their drafts, preferably on a computer (unless they can
justify writing in pen, as would be appropriate for a personal
note to their grandmother). You will likely want
to create class publishing norms, which you can solidify
with class input—ask your students what they think
should be standard publishing procedure and then have
them make an informational poster to be hung in your
classroom.
Below are ideas for publishing student work with purpose:
• Hang published work around your classroom—
make sure students write a large, eye-catching
title and perhaps have them mount their writing
on an artistic background. This works especially
well for short pieces that can be published on one
or two pages and thus don’t require page turns.
• Publish in the school or PTA newsletter.
• Create a class magazine.
• Submit to the local newspaper.
• Submit to local or national magazines.
• Write letters to personalities or policy makers.
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