2) PD Corner: Revision

Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost.
—William Zinsser

Do you find that teaching revision often gets relegated to the back burner, a victim of your busy classroom schedule? The Northern Nevada Writing Project shares writing lessons that put revision front and center. Explore the collection, part of their extensive WritingFix Web site:

http://writingfix.com/process/revision.htm

Practical and specific, the mnemonics noted in "Revising: Searching for Things to Fix" guide students to writing that sings. Be sure to scroll down for a list of questions students can ask themselves to jump-start revision:

http://www.stenhouse.com/rdRevisingTips.htm?r=n221