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Overview
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
User's Guide
Part I: Steps and Strategies
1 Guiding Principles for Teachers
2 Framing and Evaluating the Task
3 Support: Making the Case
4 Short Statements: In Fifty Words or Less
5 Vocabulary: Word for Word
6 Organizers: Frames, Clusters, and Stems
Part II: Applications
7 Research Papers and WebQuests
8 Notebooks and Journals: I Write, Therefore I Think
9 Note-Taking: For Future Reference
10 Writing Centers
Appendix: A Workshop for Teachers
Synopsis
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
User's Guide
Part I: Steps and Strategies
1 Guiding Principles for Teachers
2 Framing and Evaluating the Task
3 Support: Making the Case
4 Short Statements: In Fifty Words or Less
5 Vocabulary: Word for Word
6 Organizers: Frames, Clusters, and Stems
Part II: Applications
7 Research Papers and WebQuests
8 Notebooks and Journals: I Write, Therefore I Think
9 Note-Taking: For Future Reference
10 Writing Centers
Appendix: A Workshop for Teachers
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Writing In The Content Areas was written for middle and high school content area classroom teachers who assign essays, term papers, lab reports, and other writing tasks to their students. In concise and clear subject area language, Amy Benjamin provides strategies and techniques that will enable teachers of social studies, sciences, the humanities, etc. improve the quality of their students' writing in accordance with state and national curriculum standards. Writing In The Content Areas is an invaluable addition to teacher education curriculum resources and an practical, "user friendly" resource for the practicing classroom teacher.