Summarizing and Sentence Combining: Helping your Students Develop Two Critical Writing Skills
February 2013
Presenter: Dr. Mary Ann Corley, American Institutes for Research
This session briefly reviewed findings from current research on effective writing instruction and discussed how these findings can apply to the adult education classroom. It covered practical strategies such as sentence combining and summarization. Sentence combining is a skill that allows students to write more complex, sophisticated sentences, thus giving their final written products a polished look and feel. Similarly, summarization, a skill required for success both in postsecondary education and the world of work, provides students with tools for identifying and understanding important concepts of the subject they reading and learning about. Combining sentences and writing coherent and correctly developed summaries are two of the most powerful skills that students can cultivate.
AUDIENCE: All teacher types
TOPIC: Writing InstructionÂ
PUBLISH DATE: June 2024