How to Make Students Care About Writing (Literature & Language Other)

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How to Make Students Care About Writing
Whereas there is a consensus that learners need strong writing skills to succeed not only in school but also in the workplace, educators continue to disagree on the best ways of teaching those skills. Despite many approaches used, fewer students meet grade-level expectations in writing. Latino and African American students have lower scores than their peers in other racial groups CITATION Kri18 \l 1033 (Rizga). Pirette McKamey, a veteran English teacher has spent three decades identifying what makes students consider themselves as writers and hence presents ways in which learners can become effective writers.
A majority of students in black and Latino schools have a perception that they do not like writing and that they are bad writers. Influenced by this negative self-perception, students fail to make efforts towards improving their writing skills CITATION Kri18 \l 1033 (Rizga). McKamey has been refining her methods...