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Unlike purely process-orientated approaches, which hold that skills are acquired intuitively through writing and revising, strategic writing instruction sees the acquisition of key skills as integrally related to effective self-expression. Based on extensive research, the book describes how teachers and students can work together to develop writing strategies - thinking procedures for solving problems ranging from spelling a word correctly to planning a whole project. Illustrative case studies demonstrate how the co-construction and implementation of writing strategies can help students formulate and achieve their own personal writing goals.

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Reading this book I found myself nodding in affirmation. The theoretical framework Collins presents makes sense....Inexperienced teachers will come to understand what struggling writers go through and how they might intervene to help them find appropriate ways of learning. Experienced teachers, the ones who have spent and will continue to spend a great deal of time thinking about students and means for connecting with them, will benefit from this book as well by discovering additional ideas for tapping into how struggling writers see and understand language. -- The National Writing Project Quarterly <br>.,. [An] exceptional resource....offers necessary and well researched information about teaching, learning, and classroom practices for struggling writers. James Collins' proposal is promising and supported by extensive research that includes the voices and practices of the very students he discusses....English teachers at the secondary and postsecondary levels and graduate assistants who encounter struggling writers daily will find this book very helpful. They will walk away motivated by a refreshing understanding of the needs of struggling writers and with an approach to writing instruction designed to give such students control over their writing. -- English Journal <br> Readers of Collin's text will appreciate the rich examples Collins offers and the enlightened approach he takes to teaching struggling writers....Collins has written a fine book connecting both teaching and learning that I would not hesitate to share with my colleagues and use in a graduate course focusing on the relationship between writing and learning. -- Contemporary Psychology APA Review of Books <br> Taketime from your busy schedule and read Strategies for Struggling Writers by James L. Collins. A better idea would be to read it twice, then share it with a colleague. If you are a teacher, administrator, or college professor you will find the author's style of writing and the content informative and immediately useful....The author brings research and practice together in a readable blend....I suggest that the author's message be embraced by teacher training institutions as the teachers of tomorrow are readied to work with all emerging writers. -- Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy <br>

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James L. Collins, EdD, State University of New York at Buffalo

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