Teresa's+Writing+Process+Reflection

For me this article addresses one of the greatest difficulties I feel we have with education research- the need to isolate skills/strategies in order to evaluate their effectiveness. There is so much that goes on in the learning process, in a classroom setting, in the day-to-day business of working with humans that it is often difficult to discern if it is one particular strategy or aspect of the teaching that is effective or is it the sum?

Pritchard and Honeycutt also address what I have come to believe about teaching the writing process. It is not a linear step-by-step process, grammar and style need to be taught explicitly within the context of student writing and that a focus on writing as a process improves student writing. That being said, this is not an easy task. I think that is often why we fall back on worksheets and grammar lessons in isolation and teacher directed prompts. To truly teach writing and to do it well requires a lot of work and the need to be organized and focused.