Find opportunities to have someone other than you their teacher read and respond to your students’ writing. Have them appeal to an authentic audience.Let them take a stance on a controversial issue that matters to them for a debate, propose a solution to a real-world problem as a TED-talk script, or have them choose two high-interest topics to compare/contrast. I find that when my students are invested in the assignment, they are much more likely to care about their writing and want to make it better. Offer them authentic assignments, not arbitrary prompts.Six ways to answer the magic question: How do we get students to want to revise their writing? She has also taught at WPWP-sponsored Young Writers Institutes for many summers and coaches students through the college-application essay-writing process: Sarah Falbo began her career with Teach For America in Compton, Calif., and has since taught writing in public, charter, and private elementary and middle schools in the Pittsburgh area. Rebecca Alber, and Tamera Musiowsky-Borneman “wrap up” this series. In Part Four, Tara Bogozan, Michelle Shory, Irina McGrath, Mary K. In Part Three, Alexis Wiggins, Keisha Rembert, Alicia Kempin, Sara Holbrook, and Michael Salinger contributed their ideas. In Part Two, Matthew Johnson, Emily Phillips Galloway, Robert Jiménez, Holland White, Joy Hamm, and Alexandra Frelinghuysen offered their commentaries.

You can also find a list of, and links to, previous shows here. All four were guests on my 10-minute BAM! Radio Show. Vo, and Mary Beth Nicklaus shared their recommendations. In Part One, Melissa Butler, Jeremy Hyler, Jenny D. How do you get students to want to revise their writing? You can see Part One here Part Two here Part Three here, and Part Four here. (This is the final post in a five-part series.

Examples of rough drafts for essays