At the start of the semester, I asked my 40+ college students to write down what they think of when they think of writing a paragraph. Then they formed small groups and combined their answers. What do you think were the top three answers?
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Spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Every group came up with these three answers. These deal with the mechanics of writing, but not the content.
Only half of the groups came up with main idea.
No group listed pre-write or brainstorming. Nothing for revising . So much for the famous writing process.
The more we know about what our students think about a process, the more we can help them.
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