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Using the Writing Program Website
There are a few different resources on the Writing Program
website that I think can be useful for students who are approaching
or working on a draft.
For starters, you might have students visit particular Tutorama's.
I find this especially useful around the third or fourth papers.
By then, I have a sense of what each student needs to work on, so
I can send them to a particular tutorama: one that will help feed
them directly into their drafts.
The Gradatorium is useful in a similar way. Not only does it provide
students with an introduction to grading, but it also serves to
model the kinds of writing they should be doing in their drafts.
I might ask them to look at a particular paper for a quick discussion
of what makes it (or its project or a paragraph) strong or weak.
Then I might ask them (in class or in the computer classroom) to
produce writing based on that model.
Finally, the different questions located in the Link-O-Mat's are
a great way to get students brainstorming and working on connections,
projects, and paragraphs that can build into a draft.
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