I-OWL: Building an Interactive Writing Tool to Support 11th and 12th Graders

Madeline Hafner

Educational professionals have enacted initiatives to help high school students improve writing skills critical to success in higher education. In recent years university scholars and high school teachers have invested significant time and resources to better prepare students for college writing.

This project will develop, field test, and scale an interactive, on-line writing lab to help high school juniors and seniors complete school assignments and help prepare them for college level writing.

Using new media technologies, the I-OWL writing lab will help students improve specific writing strategies, transfer writing skills to assignments across three academic disciplines - science, social studies and language arts, and assess their skills in relation to college-level writing.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 5, 2010 1:03 AM
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