Vocabulary

**Goal: Create a school-wide discourse community that shares a common language of academic writing as well as an understanding of disciplinary differences**
from //Teaching Adolescent Writers// by Kelly Gallagher.

Editing vs. Revising Mini-lessons for teaching revising and editing Don't stop when you read this site is for primary grade teachers. Ignore that. It's full of ideas for middle grade students and possibly for high school students as well. It encourages the use of questions to guide revisions. There's lots of content here.
 * Editing and Revising** are two different stages in the writing process, with different purposes. We muddy the distinction when we say, "Students, we will revise and edit today." They should be done separately.
 * Editing:** improves the correctness of the message
 * Revising:** improves the clarity and quality of the message; it is not about rewriting or recopying

The text //Everything's an Argument// by Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz offers a way to differentiate between **argument** and **persuasion**. "...the point of argument is to discover some version of the truth, using evidence and reasons. Argument of this sort leads audiences toward conviction...The aim of persuasion is to change a point of view, or to move other from conviction to action. In other word, writers or speakers **argue** to find some truth; they **persuade** when they think they already know it" (p. 5).

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