[PRL] Teaching Collaborative Revision

[Mitchell Wand]

We all need to learn how to revise our work, and how to edit other folks'
writing.  Here is a page with some resources for learning (and teaching)
this skill.  It's slanted to Google Docs and high school students, but the
basic principles still hold even if you're using LaTeX to write operational
semantics :-).

--Mitch

Revision is a critical piece of the writing process—and of your classroom
> curriculum. Now, Google Docs<http://www.google.com/educators/activities/pdfs_GTA/CribSheet.Docs3.pdf>has partnered with Weekly Reader's
> *Writing for Teens <http://www.weeklyreader.com/writing>* magazine to help
> you teach it in a meaningful and practical way.
>
> The sharing features of Google Docs enable you and your students to decide
> exactly who can access and edit documents. You'll find that Google Docs
> helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to
> fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English,
> which espouses writing as a process<http://www.ncte.org/prog/writing/research/118876.htm>and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing.
>
> On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from *Writing
> *magazine filled with student-friendly tips and techniques for revision.
> You'll also find a teacher's guide that provides you with ideas for how to
> use these materials with Google Docs to create innovative lesson plans about
> revision for your classroom.
>

http://www.google.com/educators/weeklyreader.html
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