Steps in teaching argumentative writing
Jennifer Gonzalez is a certified teacher who claims that teaching students how to write is what she prefers the most; She loves to teach students how to write. In this podcast she gives us tips on how to teach argumentative writing.
Step 1: “Show them how it is done”
Provide the students with mentor texts. Ask the students to read the texts, to compare them, to compare its strategies. Ask them if the authors have made clear the thesis statement. This step shows the students the different models within the genre.
Step 2: “Verbal arguing”
Provide the students with a crucial topic such as abortion or women´s right and make them say why they agree or disagree. The aim of this step is to show them they do this all the time, they argue with a teacher, with their parents and explain them that they just need to learn to transfer all that into writing.
Step 3:“Informal writing: not so freestyle”
This step is basically the same as the previous one but with much more time for them to make some research on the topic so that they agree or disagree based on real evidence
Step 4: “The assignment”
To explain them what they are going to do, what the teacher expects them to do and how they would be scored. It is advisable for the teacher to teach the students high quality online research so they would not rely on sources that are not reliable.
Step 5 “Building the base”
To make them realize if they have a solid plan. Students must make a draft so that they can plan their essay
Step 6 “Writer´s workshop”
To spend some time showing them how to choose credible, relevant evidence, how to cite sources, how to consider the needs of the audience and once it is all clear and carefully planned tell them to start writing. The aim of this step is for the final copy to be close to meeting the standards.
Step 7 “Final assessment”
Students’ essays are already familiar to the teacher who encourages the students to revise their copies and to resubmit them for a higher grade.
Step 6 “Writer´s workshop”
To spend some time showing them how to choose credible, relevant evidence, how to cite sources, how to consider the needs of the audience and once it is all clear and carefully planned tell them to start writing. The aim of this step is for the final copy to be close to meeting the standards.
Step 7 “Final assessment”
Students’ essays are already familiar to the teacher who encourages the students to revise their copies and to resubmit them for a higher grade.
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