Teaching writing is not only about teaching a skill that students need to mechanically master through a set of predefined and timed assignments, it is most importantly about teaching a passion, a love for writing. Students need to love writing before they engage in its intricacies. The mechanics of writing ( style, grammar, punctuation..etc) will eventually develop as students passion for writing evolves and grows.
I have had the chance in my MA Ed to have a course called struggling writers in which I got to study several approaches to teaching writing but not one of them was as successful as the one that advocates teaching writing as a situated act. In situated writing students get to write about their own experiences in real life and share them with their peers, they get to express themselves through writing . The writing workshop is one way to do it. I wont get into details in thisbecause it is beyond the scope of this short post but I can provide whoever interested in this topic with more reading resources ( contact me at med@educatorstechnology.com ).
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The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think
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Writing like life itself is a voyage of discovery
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath
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Words are of course the most powerful thing used by mankind
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right first time, unlike say, brain surgery
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Writing is putting one's obsessions in order
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