Revision plan updated 11/26/07

The weekend I spent sorting through sources and discarding several. At the suggestion of Dr. O'Rourke, I spent a good deal of time with the journal "Voices from the Middle." Here I found many articles that will better tie in the methods being used by instructors at Northbrook School teach writing. Today I spent a good portion of the time composing paragraphs related to the school's ISAT scores. The school made a concentrated effort to improve test scores and that showed for many years. Recently, though, the scores have once more begun to slide, with 30.6 percent of the students operating below state standards for writing. This is the highest that it has been since 1999. With these scores in mind, I have additional questions for Ms. Pozzi and the writing instructors @ Northbrook.

Revision plan

My first goal for revision is to find an article regarding technology use in the classroom that is not so dated. While the article I have raises many important issues, it is somewhat dated since it is from 1995. I would keep the other one for comparison purposes but an article written within the last five years would be more timely, despite the fact Northbrook tends to lag behind in terms of curriculum. My next goal in the revision process is to add the actual notes from my interviews which take place on Thursday and Friday, respectively. That section of my paper was sadly lacking but as yet I have no material apart from classroom observations. While the classroom observations are useful in themselves, I need the interviews to further explain the methodologies being used in the classroom. My third and final goal is to work further on the summaries, which I feel could use more detail.