Enhancing
Sentence
Style
Variety
(length,
structure,
punctuation,
ideas,
etc.)
“When
a
student
introduces
a
por1olio
with
serious
reflec5on
about
it,
the
student
is
taking
responsibility
for
the
quality
of
the
work,
the
choices
that
were
involved
in
the
wri5ng
and
the
learning
that
has
occurred—or
not
occurred.
It
is
a
powerful
metacogni5ve
act—thinking
about
thinking—that
no
other
assessment
device
includes.
But
one
link
in
our
own
thinking
about
por1olios
yet
remains,
and
that
is
the
purpose
of
this
paper:
to
connect
the
power
of
the
reflec5ve
leDer
to
the
actual
scoring
of
por1olios”
(583).
Ed
White,
“The
Scoring
of
Wri5ng
Por1olios:
Phase
2.”
CCC
56.4
(2005):
581-‐600.
Powerful
Verbs
vs.
‘To
Be’
• The
frequency
with
which
writers
use
forms
of
the
verb
“to
be”
is
interes5ng
to
me.
Powerful
Verbs
vs.
‘To
Be’
• Vidra’s
ar5cle
was
an
argument
about
the
invasiveness
of
Kudzu.
Powerful
Verbs
vs.
‘To
Be’
• The
writers
were
asking
how
to
enhance
their
sentence
style.
Powerful
Verbs
vs.
‘To
Be’
• There
are
many
people
who
want
to
improve
their
wri5ng.