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    This document provides an overview of Doug Buehl's "Question Dissection" strategy for analyzing essay prompts. It outlines the key steps of the strategy, which involves breaking the prompt down into categories like verbs, topics, and key terms. Students are instructed to create a "word web" on index cards to plan and organize their essays. The document also provides a sample essay prompt for students to practice applying the Question Dissection strategy. It asks students to consider whether casual disregard for conventions in email communication breaches etiquette or is part of email culture, drawing on readings from the chapter.

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    This document provides an overview of Doug Buehl's "Question Dissection" strategy for analyzing essay prompts. It outlines the key steps of the strategy, which involves breaking the prompt down into categories like verbs, topics, and key terms. Students are instructed to create a "word web" on index cards to plan and organize their essays. The document also provides a sample essay prompt for students to practice applying the Question Dissection strategy. It asks students to consider whether casual disregard for conventions in email communication breaches etiquette or is part of email culture, drawing on readings from the chapter.

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    Doug Buehl's-Question Dissection

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    This document provides an overview of Doug Buehl's "Question Dissection" strategy for analyzing essay prompts. It outlines the key steps of the strategy, which involves breaking the prompt down into categories like verbs, topics, and key terms. Students are instructed to create a "word web" on index cards to plan and organize their essays. The document also provides a sample essay prompt for students to practice applying the Question Dissection strategy. It asks students to consider whether casual disregard for conventions in email communication breaches etiquette or is part of email culture, drawing on readings from the chapter.

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    DougBuehlsQuestionDissection

    Teacher:HeatherLamers

    School:CSUB

    ContentAreaStandard:

    Comprehension

    LiteracyStandard:

    Comprehension,inventionstrategies,criticalreading

    InstructionalObjectives
    Definitionofwhatis
    tobetaughtand
    learned

    Understandingessayprompts;overcomingtest/timedexamanxiety

    Curriculum
    LessonContent

    SeeBuehlsQuestionDissection

    InstructionalDelivery
    Procedures
    Strategies

    SeeBuehlsQuestionDissection(below)
    Distributeindexcards
    Distributedifferentessayprompts

    Evidence/Assessment

    Collectwordwebsalongwithfinishedessay(indexcards)

    Accommodations
    Readingdifficulties
    Advancedlearners
    Englishlearners
    Text
    InstructionalMaterials

    Levelisbasedupondifficultyofessayquestion

    ThesampleessayquestionderivesfromWritingandReadingAcrossthe
    Curriculum

    DougBuehlsQuestionDissection
    QuestionDissection(10911)
    1. Brainstormdifficultiesinvolvedwhenansweringessayquestionsingeneral.
    2. IntroducetheprotocolforQD(QuestionDissection);lookforcluesinthesecategories:
    a.testverbs
    b.topic
    c.list
    d.number
    e.order
    f.firstsentence
    Buehlrecommendsplacingtheseprotocolsinaboxwithenoughavailableroomforstudents
    toexplorethesecategoriesbeforetacklingatoughessayexamontheirown.
    3. Usesampleessayquestionsaspractice.
    4. Buehlrecommendspracticingessayplanningandorganizationbyusingawordweb.
    5. Iftheessayisforatest,Buehlrecommendsthatinstructorsallowstudentstobringtheirword
    webson4x6indexcardstoencouragecriticalthinking/planningskills.
    SAMPLEESSAYQUESTION:
    1. Theemailrevolutionappearstohavechangedsomeoftherulesofcommunication,oftenforthe
    worse.Oneofthemoreunpleasantdevelopmentsofthemediumisflaming:thesendingofabusive,
    insulting,andsometimesviciousmessages,oreventhreats,toanotherwithwhomonemayhavea
    minordisagreement.Considerablylessserious,butstillannoyingtomanyemailrecipients,isthe
    tendencyofsomewritersnottousepunctuationorcapitalletters,indeednottobotherproofreading
    (orevensigning)theirmessagesatall.Whilesomebelievethatemailmessagesdonotrequirestrict
    adherencetostylisticconventions,otherstakeissue.InTheElementsofEmailStyle,authorsDavid
    AngellandBrentHeslopassert,Usingalllowercaselettersisannoyingfortherecipientandcan
    resultinyourmessagebeingmisunderstoodornotreadatall.Doyouregardsuchcasualdisregard
    forconventionsasbreachesofcommunicationetiquetteoraretheysimplypartofthedistinctive
    natureofemailculture?Attempttoexplaintheseandperhapsothernegativefeaturesofemail
    communication,drawinguponsomeoftheselectionsthatyouhavereadinthischapter,particularly
    Leonard,Schwartz,andDyson.

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