Chapter 15: Elaboration
In Chapter 15, students are offered an opportunity to explore some characteristics of creative writing; however, they're presented in the consistent structure as the rest of the chapters. For example, in lessons one through five, Language Network gives students ways to elaborate their writing through creative incorporations such as imagery, analogies, sensory details, and similes and metaphors. On the other hand, Chapter 15, also provides ways for students to elaborate their academic writing through the incorporation of charts and graphs, facts and statistics, reasoning, and expert testimonies.
According to NCTE's Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing (2011),
"writing activities and assignments should be designed with genuine purposes and audiences in mind (from teachers and other students to community groups, local or national officials, commercial interests, students' friends and relatives, and other potential readers) in order to foster flexibility and rhetorical versatility."
This chapter allows room for the teacher to deliver these lessons in a manner that provides students with a chance to observe their rhetorical situation: Who are they writing for? What's the communicative context? What is their purpose?
According to NCTE's Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing (2011),
"writing activities and assignments should be designed with genuine purposes and audiences in mind (from teachers and other students to community groups, local or national officials, commercial interests, students' friends and relatives, and other potential readers) in order to foster flexibility and rhetorical versatility."
This chapter allows room for the teacher to deliver these lessons in a manner that provides students with a chance to observe their rhetorical situation: Who are they writing for? What's the communicative context? What is their purpose?