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Part of the It's Your Turn series by
Perceptia Press, Write Right is a highly
flexible book which can be used as a main text or
as supplementary material for a writing course.
Write Right is a textbook for teaching both
research and essay writing. It is designed to be
flexible enough for students of widely diverse
language ability, from those who can hardly
construct grammatical sentences to those with
experience writing paragraphs. Containing 21 lessons
it may be used as a yearlong course textbook,
expanded to thirty or more days by the insertion of
writing conference weeks in which students write in
class while the teacher meets each student one to
one to discuss:
- individual topic choices
- narrowing of the topic into three or four
subtopics from the mind map and literature
research
- the type of organization (exposition,
comparison, argumentation)
- the method or methods of live research
(observation, interview, survey, and experiment)
- the first paragraph
- each paragraph of the body
- the final paragraph
- problems to correct in each draft of the final
essay
- preparation for speech presentation
Teachers may also choose to dispense with chapters
(especially those marked supplemental) to reduce the
course to a single semester of 15 or 16 class days
and any interaction with the student can be done in
the teacher’s office or through the internet.
Teachers of literature courses may wish to forego
the chapters on live research, and teachers of
science majors might want to emphasize live research
and experiment in particular. It is this author’s
hope that all teachers will freely choose and adapt
the book to meet the needs of the students in their
own classes.
Some teachers prefer students to self-grade their
comprehension questions in the textbook, and others
prefer to not give students access to answers which
tempts them to copy rather than to think.
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