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Locke, Terry; Kato, Helen – English in Australia, 2012
This paper draws on a case study undertaken by an English teacher in a rural school with a Year 12 English class, most of whom had been singularly unsuccessful in terms of NCEA achievement. The case study was undertaken as part of a two-year project, directed by the first author, entitled: "Teachers as writers: Transforming professional…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Intervention, Student Evaluation, Action Research
Early, Jessica Singer; DeCosta-Smith, Meredith; Valdespino, Arturo – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
This article describes a writing workshop that took place with 41 low-income, multi-ethnic 12th-grade students who received instruction on specific genre features for writing college admission essays. As a result, students improved the quality of their college admission essays and demonstrated greater confidence with this writing task. This…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Essays, Writing Skills, College Admission

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