ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS RESOURCES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS RESOURCESWHAT ARE SOME OF THE PURPOSES MY STUDENTS CAN HAVE FOR SOME OF THEIR WRITING ASSIGNMENTS?
Although this list is certainly not complete, the following are some possible reasons that students might write:
To think
To inform
To persuade
To criticize
To reflect
To communicate
To research
To entertain
To forge a connection with someone
To understand
To remember
To solve a problem
To grieve
To control
To show concern
To experience personal enjoyment
To cause social action
To wonder
To thank
To express an emotion
To feel
To know
To discover
To show understanding
To collaborate
To question.
Example
In Earth/Environmental Science, students write in order to reflect and to
inform by writing a midterm letter to their parents discussing their participation
and progress in the class, the most important things that they have learned
so far, and what grade they feel they have earned at this point in the grading
period. Parents are requested to write a response to the student which will
then be turned back in to the teacher.
Example
In Foreign Language IV, students write in order to show understanding of
a current problem in the target culture by conducting library research and composing
a speech in the target language which identifies, discusses, and proposes a
solution to that problem.
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