UNL CSI Written Composition

Written Composition
	Defends	Ellis, E., & Lenz, K.
This writing strategy is designed to aid in written compositions conveying a position. It is intended to help students write a paper defending a position. This strategy involves imbedded strategies.
	Helpers in Writing	Wong, B.Y.L., Butler, D.L., Ficzere, S.A., & Kuperis, S.
This is a writing strategy designed to help students write compare-and-contrast essays. This strategy employs a planning sheet called HELPERS in Writing.
	Mapping	Simmonds, E.P.M., Luchow, J.P., Kaminsky, S., & Cottone, V.
This writing strategy was designed to help students organize essay answers on tests, but can be used in various writing activities.
	PLEASE	Welch, M., & Jensen, J.B.
This writing strategy was developed for written expression, to assist students in planning and writing compositions using a highly structured, step-by-step procedure. This is intended to enable students to generate and organize ideas in simple paragraph form. The strategy WritePlease, is a video-assisted strategy intended to aide teachers in teaching this strategy.
	POWER	Englert, C.S., Raphael, E.E., Anderson, L.M., Anthony, H.M., Fear, K.L., & Gregg, S.L.
This writing strategy organizes all the steps in the writing process. It teaches students four different organizational structures for writing papers: stories, comparison-contrast, explanations, and problem/solution.
	PROJECT	Ellis, E.S.
This strategy is an example of how to promote effective group work.
	SCORE A: A Student Research Paper Writing Strategy	Korinek, L., & Bulls, J.A.
SCORE A is a writing strategy that covers the development of a topical research paper. It provides a concrete, sequential structure for students to develop and write papers on selected topics.
	Space: A Planning Strategy for Writing	Korinek, L., & Bulls, JA
The SPACE strategy is the second step of a basic three-step writing strategy. It is designed to help students make a writing plan and think about the details that should be included in stories.
	W-W-W, What=2; How=2	Graham, S., Harris, K.R., & Sawyer, R.
This is a writing strategy designed to help students ask themselves a series of "story-grammar" questions to generate narrative text.
	POW+TREE-	Center on Accelerated Student Learning
This site provides lessons, mnemonic charts and graphic organizers, for the Power and Tree Strategies.