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Teacher’S Block: Embracing The Challenge Of Improving Students’ Writing, Neil Witzig
Teacher’S Block: Embracing The Challenge Of Improving Students’ Writing, Neil Witzig
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This paper will explain the overall trend of worsening writing abilities in the past twenty years of education. The purpose of the paper is to analyze this downward trend, examine different methodologies for teaching writing, and propose solutions on how to better approach writing instruction. The challenges with teaching writing range from the difficulty of getting technology absorbed students to focus on one task for a long period of time to also the problem of giving each student individual feedback on their work – an essential element of writing instruction. The research reviewed shows this downward trend in writing assessment …