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This source looks at how to have a discussion about revision with students to help them discover what inhibits their ability to revise. It goes on to discuss peer editing/revising and gives helpful tips for student-teacher writing conferences.

This site offers ideas for how to introduce composition to students. It also links to a nice .pdf for peer revision.

This technique (Glossing) helps students see revision in papers. I want to look at this more closely -It may be a promising technique to try with 9th grade.

This links to a PDF about making teacher comments that students can actually use for revision.

Revising for relevance/unity

National Writing Project Site- Start with a student's original draft and shows different steps of the revision process. Mostly prose writing.

Includes excellent handouts and worksheets for editing, revising, grammar, etc. We can use some of these for assessments via Quia.

This source discusses the importance of teacher modelling when we teach writing to students. The idea is to get them to see beyond their original draft and understand that they have more to say after their initial thoughts