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Using Extensive Feedback To Improve Writing Skills Within A Social Studies Context, Christopher Hahn
Using Extensive Feedback To Improve Writing Skills Within A Social Studies Context, Christopher Hahn
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The purpose of this study was to determine what kind of impact extensive feedback had on eighth grade students within a social studies context. The researcher used best practice feedback techniques gleaned from research to assist all his students in improving content knowledge, mechanics and rhetorical skills. From the body of all student work, the writing of five students of varying abilities was examined in detail to determine the effect of feedback on student writing skills. Examination of subsequent student drafts and assignments from these five students and questionnaires from all students revealed that while feedback did play a role …