Question: What happens
when students are given pre-selected vocabulary to use when writing?
Answer: “Found that
teaching a related set of words to students before they write an essay in which
the words must be used can improve the quality of the essay.” AH Duin and MR
Graves. 1987. P. 215.
Comment: This idea reminds me of the absolutely worst
writing assignment I have ever experienced: Given fifty vocabulary words,
students must use them in a composition—in order! I’m sorry, this idea smacks
of the same thing. I hate it. RayS.
Title: “Annotated
Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English.” JD Marshall and RK Durst.
Research in the Teaching of English (May 1988), 213-227.
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