Some of the skills students will develop and refine in this unit include:
- Identifying and using their own writing processes, rituals, and various presenting strategies
- Reading the work of other authors critically
- Understanding the role of audience in writing and how audiences differ
- Revising for audience needs
- Summarizing accurately and objectively
- Selecting appropriate strategies for responding to an idea
- Clearly stating points they want to make about an idea
- Focusing their discussion of those points
- Developing support for their points
- Organizing the exploration of an idea
- Reading and critiquing peers' writing (workshopping)
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