Metacognitive tools for writing
Firth, Jonathan William; Burns, Nathan, ed. (2024) Metacognitive tools for writing. In: Teaching Hacks. Sage, London, 7–18. ISBN 9781529627916
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Abstract
Extended writing is important for students to communicate their ideas, and it is often necessary for assessed coursework or exams at school level, too. Whether such tasks consist of essays, scientific reports or creative writing, many students underperform. The focus of this chapter is to explore the metacognitive processes at work when students write, and to establish strategies for tackling underperformance. Writing is a highly complex skill, especially for more extended written tasks. It is cognitively demanding, because students need to gather together many thoughts and ideas before forming these into a persuasive and accurate piece of text. It is also metacognitively demanding, because they must assess and evaluate their knowledge, considering its relevance to the task at hand, and select strategies to help them communicate their ideas successfully (Flavell, 1976; Wischgoll, 2016). None of this is straightforward, and more could be done to develop the requisite skills among school students (Koster et al, 2015).
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Firth, Jonathan William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1213-0219; Burns, Nathan-
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 89861 Dates: DateEvent20 July 2024PublishedSubjects: Education > Theory and practice of education
Language and Literature > English literatureDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 08 Jul 2024 13:53 Last modified: 01 Oct 2024 15:31 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/89861