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Revision Decisions
Talking Through Sentences and Beyond
Revision is often a confusing and difficult process for students, but it's also the most important part of the writing process. If students leave our classrooms not knowing how to move a piece of writing forward, we've failed them. Revision Decisions will help teachers develop the skills students need in an ever-evolving writing, language, and reading world. Jeff Anderson and Deborah Dean have written a book that engages writers in the tinkering, playing, and thinking that are essential to clarify and elevate writing.
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Revision is often a confusing and difficult process for students, but it's also the most important part of the writing process. If students leave our classrooms not knowing how to move a piece of writing forward, we've failed them. Revision Decisions will help teachers develop the skills students need in an ever-evolving writing, language, and reading world. Jeff Anderson and Deborah Dean have written a book that engages writers in the tinkering, playing, and thinking that are essent...read more
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Table of Contents
PART I: The Basics
Chapter 1: Revisions Decisions Are Possible: Actively Processing to Develop Options for Revision
Chapter 2: The Vocabulary of Revision Decisions: Introducing DRAFT with a Five-Day Lesson Plan
Chapter 3: The Process: The Anatomy of a Revision-Decision Lesson
PART II: The Lesson Sets
Lesson Set 1: Modifying in the Right Direction: Right-Branching Sentences
Lesson Set 2: Can't Resist a List: The Compacting Power of the Serial Comma
Lesson Set 3: The Pair Necessities: Balancing Pairs and Deleting Repetition
Lesson Set 4: Asides Are Extra: Adding Flavor with Extra Information
Lesson Set 5: Sentences Interrupted: The Power of Putting Ideas in the Way
Lesson Set 6: The Participle Principle: The Verbal That Tracks Action
Lesson Set 7: A Verbal Remedy: Invigorating Writing with Gerunds and Participles
Lesson Set 8: Keep Your Reader Oriented: Using Prepositions to Connect and Navigate
Lesson Set 9: The Comma-Drama Dilemma: Use It... or Lose It?
Lesson Set 10: What's Left? Branching Out in New Ways
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