Engaging in Good Writing
The New Desire for Calligraphy. https://www.graf-von-faber-castell.com.hk/art-of-fine-writing/tamitio-calligraphy Accessed on Nov. 12/19.
paper, through emails or even text messages. We have moved away from the letter-writing form of
communication and moved to technology-based writing and communication. However, to ensure that
we are communicating effectively, we must ensure that we are writing properly.
Reading and writing are linked and reading can help to improve writing skills. Reading helps to
understand sentence structure, learn new words and recognize proper spelling.
The first resource that I will be looking at is a blog called Langwitches. Specifically looking at new
forms of writing. This focuses on reading and writing in the online world. When it comes to writing
in the online world we must be careful. Often when writing on social media, it is informal. Leading to
a lack of punctuation and abbreviated texts. We use slang such as LOL (laugh out loud), brb (be right
back), u (you) and many more. These can be dangers in writing. However, there are also benefits to
online writing. For example through twitter. Twitter has a character limit of 280 characters per tweet.
This teaches writers a valuable skill, how to be concise with our words. There is nothing worse than
reading a five-page essay that just rambles on. It is important to learn how to be concise and make
your point. I had never thought of this idea before reading this blog, and I thought that it was a very
interest approach. By using Twitter in the classroom, we can ask students a question and get them to
answer it in a single tweet. This teaches students how to say more with less words.
English Study Page https://englishstudypage.com/grammar/internet-chat-slang-and-abbreviation-list/. Accessed on Nov. 12/19
From short and concise writing to essay writing is a big jump. However, writing essays is not always easy to do. This video is called 5 Tips to Improve Your Writing and is all about tips to improve your essay writing. It focuses on what to avoid while writing, passive vs active voices through writing and string verbs to use. I think that this video is very interesting because it focuses on the most common mistakes that are made while writing. It shows you what you should be doing while writing and what to avoid while writing as well. This video can either be used in the classroom or recreated within your own classroom. It is great because it has an audio aspect (the woman speaking) as well as a visual component (the woman writing on the board). This video is a great resource as it can easily be accessed at home, for students to have whenever they may find themselves writing.
The last resource that will be examined today is an article called Fostering “Good” Writers: Making Writing Meaningful by Gage Jeter. This article is about how to get students engaged in their writing to make it meaningful. “Students will likely embrace the idea of writing when it centers on relevant, meaningful topics that relate to their lives on a broader scale” (Jeter, 2016, p.64). This quote is extremely important and relevant when it comes to writing. If students are not interested in the topic, they will disengage and struggle to write. It is as simple as that. This resource is one to help teachers to better understand how to engage students in writing. Whether or not a student is engaged in their writing will make a huge difference in the quality of what they are writing. It is all about giving the students a choice, to a certain degree. When students are interested in the topic that they are writing about, the quality of their writing is much better. This article is not so much about teaching the basics of writing, but it is about teaching students to love writing.
The Writing Cooperative. https://writingcooperative.com/18-motivational-quotes-to-bring-out-the-writer-in-you-ea3e61c93734. Accessed Nov 12/19.
Resources
Jeter, Gage. (2016). Fostering "Good" Writers: Making Writing Meaningful.
