High School Writing

High School Writing Instruction

Whatever career paths your students choose, they will need strong writing and critical thinking skills. College freshmen will be expected to draft, revise and edit their prose, and work collaboratively with other writers in their classroom. Successful workers must be able to communicate effectively with their employers and customers. Teaching students the process approach to writing, creating strong writing assignments, and developing clear evaluative criteria for their work will help you develop these skills in your students. This entire web site is dedicated to those topics, but in this section we've adapted them especially for high school instructors.

All material in this section is written by Victoria Davis, Dr. Eric Lupfer, and Dr. Susan Schorn, unless otherwise noted. Please do not use without attribution.

• Teaching the Writing Process
  
• Creating Writing Assignments
  
• Developing Evaluative Criteria
  
• Sample Worksheets and Assignments

Additional Resources for High School Teachers

• Safety 'Net has a page on plagiarism specifically in the context of K-12 classrooms.
• Oswego High School has a nice writing guide for high school students covering outlines, paragraph, essays, and research papers.
• Wilton (CT) High School provides their Chemistry students with these instructions for writing a lab report.
• The UT Master Teacher Summer Institute offers teachers the opportunity to receive graduate credit by taking intensive summer courses in Language, Literature, and Natural Sciences.