Recognizes persuasive techniques such as personality, tradition, rhetoric, and reason. Identifies faulty reasoning in text. Writing Competencies Seventh graders write point of view pieces that have a coherent, logical, and organized structure and that provide sufficient, elaborated reasons to support a position. They learn to include main ideas and supporting details in argumentative writing. These students use writing logs to record their interpretations of text and to summarize key points already included in the log.
Revision focuses on rearranging, deleting, or adding new ideas and paragraphs.
Possesses the attitudes, habits, and dispositions of a writer. Recognizes that writing can persuade and change people's actions and attitudes. Recognizes that writing can help explore opposing points of view or all aspects of a problem or issue. Writes on a variety of topics in more than one mode. Verbalizes characteristics of effective and ineffective writing.