Volume 1, Issue 25 – The Importance of Writing Knowledge

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing the importance of writing knowledge.

While it’s commonly accepted that students need to know the characteristics of good writing, it’s less clear what kind of knowledge they need and what impact that knowledge has on their actual ability to write. In an article for the Journal of Educational Psychology, two university professors report on a study they did to detail the relationship between knowledge and writing skill.

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