Chapter 8

[Grace]

In this chapter is focuses on conventions and making the last edits, so that the writing piece is ready to be published or presented to a teacher. Often conventions can be thought to be the easiest trait but that is not correct. There are always questions of what should or shouldn’t be capitalized, where there should be punctuation marks, and more. For this area of writing I think an important part of this can be looking at classmates or other writing pieces to check their conventions, grammar and more. Students will be able to catch things in their writing that needs to be fixed, then apply this knowledge to their writing to make sure they are using the correct conventions. For sample pieces the textbook provides a list of options that parents, students’ teachers and others can use to best benefits their convention skills. In these samples it also provides readers with the other scores that the six traits would have received, if they were all being graded. Then at the end of the chapter it talks about presentation. One main idea of this section is poetry, where in this style of writing it can be important to present their writing pieces in the same format as other poetry samples.