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| | The Center for
Online Writing Instruction and Exchange |
| | Benefits |
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| | Writing Rules! directly meets the following educational requirements: |
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| | • | Supports state and provincial language curriculum objectives |
| | | Structured lessons address all the major writing principles required from elementary school through university level competence. |
| | • | Makes it interesting and exciting to learn to write
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| | | One theme uses a story approach that appeals to younger children. A second theme presents writing skills in greater depth with a more direct instructional approach suitable for middle school students to adult. All themes use videos that create interest, show the reasons behind writing principles, and convey new concepts effectively. |
| | • | Ensures maximum transfer from instruction to practice
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| | | New skills are rehearsed by having students edit writing challenges just like they do in real writing. No multiple choice questions. This ensures students internalize writing mechanics so they are more likely to be practiced in their regular work. |
| | • | Makes the job of teaching writing easier
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| | | Writing Rules! relieves teachers of record keeping tasks, lets them easily assign writing exercises, allows them to mark work efficiently, and facilitates constructive exchanges with students. No more briefcases full of essays to mark. No more emails to process. All exchanges are made online. |
| | • | Empowers teachers |
| | | Teachers can easily create writing assignments for their students and determine what elements their students experience. Teachers can share writing assignments to build an exciting and comprehensive content pool ready for use any time. |
| | • | Empowers students |
| | | The ultimate goal of writing instruction is to enable students to effectively communicate. In Writing Rules! students can write, experiment and create using the skills they acquire directly from Writing Rules! and from the invaluable comments they receive from teachers and peers. |
| | • | Scales to fit any size of instructional population |
| | | Whether you have ten students or ten thousand, Writing Rules! has the structure and management features that allow any complexity of instructional system from the home-schooling family through to districts, colleges, universities and states.
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| | • | Accessible from anywhere
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| | | All users have access and login capability from wherever they learn or manage instruction. |
| | • | Maximum performance with minimum slowdown
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| | | Writing Rules! has been engineered to comply with Web 2.0 guidelines, to require no plug-in installations, and to execute all functions as efficiently as possible with minimal interruption and delay. |
| | • | Supported with offline resources |
| | | Writing Rules! presents online videos to introduce each topic. The videos are also available on DVD so teachers can use them as classroom instruction tools when computer access is limited or additional instruction time permits. |
| | • | Open to customer direction
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| | | Writing Rules! has already changed and improved dramatically since it was first shown to selected audiences. We have many more ideas to implement and we welcome your own recommendations and contributions. |
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