WRITE UP: A Strategy for Teaching Creative Writing Skills to Emotionally Disturbed Students.

Arthur, Becky; Zell, Nancy

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ERIC Number: EJ415037

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1990

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WRITE UP: A Strategy for Teaching Creative Writing Skills to Emotionally Disturbed Students.

Arthur, Becky; Zell, Nancy

Preventing School Failure, v34 n4 p26-31 Sum 1990

This paper describes the WRITE UP strategy for helping emotionally disturbed students overcome fears of creative writing, organize their thoughts and improve their writing skills. The writing process is covered from subject selection and brainstorming through composition to editing and the final draft, with grading seen as a teaching tool. (PB)

Descriptors: Brainstorming, Emotional Disturbances, Prewriting, Secondary Education, Student Writing Models, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition), Writing Assignments, Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Non-Classroom

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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