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develop these
critical thinking skills, because when you have to put
your ideas down on paper and support them with evidence
and argument, you sharpen your ability to reason, to extrapolate,
and to draw conclusions from the information presented
to you. Writing exercises challenge students to go beyond
what is presented to them, and encourage them to come
back with their own ideas and thoughts, which they will
then develop into well thought out and well reasoned arguments.
No student comes into school
knowing how to write perfectly. Talk to teachers across
the board and they will all agree that most students have
problems with their writing that need to be addressed
in the classroom. These problems, as outlined by Art Young
and Toby Fulwiler in their book Writing Across the Disciplines:
Research Into Practice, include
Attitude
(the motivation and interest of students)
Mechanical Skills (spelling, punctuation)
Organizational skills (how to piece it together)
Style (conventions appropriate to task and audience)
Reasoning ability (thinking, logic)
Knowledge (something to write about)
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