Writing system

Do you remember the excitement as a child to receive something in the mail? Every day you would run to the mailbox with hopes of getting mail. Children in today’s society don’t know the excitement that comes with the mail. Today’s children will grow up to expect emails, texts, and other forms of technology. What is the true importance of written communication? Some may say that there is none while others wish we could go back in time to when that was the only communication we had. The true…

Some may say in an unbearable voice, “Writing is so boring! I don 't want to write, be creative, or write essays about any historical event.” I was not surrounded by many lovers of writing growing up. That is why I appreciate writing as much as I do. It is the sense of being unique and not following the crowd of literacy haters that gave me my gratitude. It is a way to transform my inner thoughts into something worthy of pen and paper. From little jots about cats and dogs from my youthful days…

Yañez called, “’Big Picture People Rarely Become Historians’: Activity Theory and the Contradictions of General Education.” Their paper is an abstract concerning a linguistics theory known as activity theory (AT), as well as genre theory or genre systems theory. Their piece centers on the contradictions students face regarding their time spent in general education courses. The authors frame their observations of the student’s concerns around these theories. This allows them to hold each student…

informative writing versus narrative, imaginative or personal writing than prior state standards” mean that teachers focus less on writing for fun, and more on writing for a specific reason. (Wilcox, et al. 2). One major problem noted is that the Common Core State Standards “benchmarks for writing development [were] ‘simply educated guesses as to what students should be able to do at particular grades’” (Wilcox, et al. 5). Teachers had no conclusive way to measure a student’s progress in their…

helps shape a writer’s language and style in their writing process. Cynthia Smith, a retired RN and case manager supervisor was greatly impacted by authors such as Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, and the collective authors of the Bible. They helped shape her ideas and her construction of writing. Her transition from Jamaica to America and her position in the medical field, shaped how important language and communication was in her essays and writing today. Cynthia Smith went to school in Jamaica…

Breytenbach struck at the clenching claws of the supremacists whose, “”peace” in the white mouth demands maintaining a strict order by law, protecting the status quo, everybody “knowing his place,”” he stood up to institutionalized racism through writing (106). Breytenbach was born in 1939 and spent time as a political prisoner because of his campaign to speak out against segregation in South Africa. While he himself is Caucasian, he took special care to not be presumptuous or take other’s…

appalling idea. She believes that a computer grading student essays “is a truly bad idea” because computers do not “recognize wit, humor, or irony.” Ravitch makes an excellent point when she says that computers do not recognize different forms of writings. Computers do not see hidden meaning within text like a human would. Computers analyze the piece of work to see if sentences are…

Teaching cursive writing in public schools is a heated topic amongst teachers and has been debated for several years, but it is clear that cursive writing should not be taught to students in this new progressive generation. Although supporters of teaching cursive writing have brought up that it stimulates more parts of the brain than typing does, that is not enough reason to waste the time of students who will almost never use that knowledge again. Cursive writing is almost nonexistent in…

To assure that the writing workshop is effective in assisting students as they develop their writing skills, the writing workshop should follow a predictable structure in an environment conducive to brainstorming and composing. As a facilitator of the workshop, teachers should determine the sequence of a workshop, explicitly teach components, and have students practice the system. Additionally, teachers should set clear expectations and model each component of the workshop before implementing a…

Analysis of the Leveled Literacy Intervention System The Leveled Literacy Intervention system (LLI) created by Fountas and Pinnell (2009) has several different aspects to support literacy development mostly notably lesson plans and leveled books to support students independent reading as well as instructional reading. However, when considering using this intervention with students with a learning disabilities (LD) it is important to look at the strengths and weaknesses. The small group design…