Approaches to Writing Instruction

• Students should choose a particular approach to writing instruction.
• Students should then spend the next 48 hours inbetween classes to research that particular approach.
• These findings will then be discussed in groups of 3 or 4 in class
• Discussions should be more than just a summary of findings; students need to synthesize their findings with their experiences and their own pedogogical approaches.
• These discussions will be the beginning of a position paper on the effectiveness and validy of a particular approach. Ideas generated during this time should form the stance and examples to be used in the paper.