Audience, Purpose and Motivation for Writing

Prior to the session we read:
Alison Davis, Effective Writing
Chapter 8, Celebrating and responding to writing

The key ideas: 

• Having a clear purpose and audience for writing is highly motivating for students, and involving them in determining this is an effective way to build motivation. 
• Students can learn a lot about writing through investigating their own and other's writing.
• Maintenance of skills and strategies for writing is an important aspect of everyday class practice.
• Allowing students a choice in writing activities provides an incentive for involvement and an interest in writing. 
• There are a wide range of possibilities in the creation and celebration of writing. 

We used the ECG template to discuss the reading in groups. 

Senior Team 

Junior Team:

We asked why write? 




We used Coggle to make a list of our students and attach them to an audience that might work for them.