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Download full textRobbins, Bruce – 1991
Playwriting gives students focused experience with dialogue, which is useful in many kinds of writing, and provides an avenue for process-based writing instruction. The assignment of writing plays allows students to try out various personae without risking direct self-identification. Students write more for one another than for the teacher,…
Descriptors: Characterization, Class Activities, Drama, High Schools
