Voice and Word Choice For Content Area Teachers An In-Depth Training Session.

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Voice and Word Choice For Content Area Teachers An In-Depth Training Session

Participants will 1.Understand the key components of the traits of Voice and Word Choice 2.Recognize student performance at different score levels for Voice and Word Choice 3.Develop expertise in scoring student writing for classroom purposes in Voice and Word Choice.

The position of a writer and his or her concept of the audience impose style constraints on the writing.  Scholarly writing, for example, usually avoids figures of speech and prefers precise descriptions to colloquial terms that might be found more often in more familiar forms of writing, such as text messages or personal blogs.  News reporting requires precise words, even if colloquial, and shorter sentences, to be easy to read by a general audience.

– Fiction writing, in contrast, is designed to entertain and arouse the reader and is improved by the judicious use of figures of speech. – A judge's verdict needs to explain how the verdict corresponds to other rulings, but often uses literary devices to persuade the reader of its correctness. Wikipedia

 Voice is the author's style, the quality that makes his or her writing unique, and which conveys the author's attitude, personality, and character; OR  Voice is the characteristic speech and thought patterns of a first-person narrator; a persona

 Voice present? (commitment to topic, sincerity, other possible indicators in Scoring Guide)  Voice appropriate for topic, mode, writing situation?  Voice consistent enough?

“Writing with no voice is dead, mechanical, faceless. It lacks any sound. Writing with no voice may be saying something true, important, or new; it may be logically organized; it may even be a work of genius. But it is as though the words came through some kind of mixer rather than being uttered by a person.

Peter Elbow Extreme lack of voice is characteristic of bureaucratic memos, technical engineering writing, much sociology, many textbooks.”

Highlight words and phrases that help distinguish a score of 3 from a 4 in Voice

Mark Twain “The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”

Highlight words and phrases that help distinguish a score of 3 from a 4 in Word Choice

ODE High School Writing Samples: OPEN Scoring Site: Clackamas ESD Writing Samples