But it's so much more:

It's a complete system to track students' specific writing strengths and weaknesses. It's a tool to assist students to overcome their writing deficiencies. It's an aide to teachers who strive to enhance their students' writing abilities.

How does it work?

1. Teacher logs in and uses a template to create a meaningful writing assignment. Teachers can either create their own assignments, share assignments among colleagues, or import assignments from an assignment bank.
2. Teacher (with or without the help of students) selects appropriate focus skills (ideally 4-7 different skills), and writingprocess.net automatically generates a rubric. (It is easy to individualize focus skills for remediation and/or enrichment.)
3. Teacher presents assignment and writing lesson. (Lessons are included in Burnette Writing Process Teacher's Manual--included with subscription to writingprocess.net.)
4. Students pre-write and generate rough drafts (on paper).
5. Students revise and edit to address focus skills. (Writingprocess.net includes descriptions and examples of each focus skill. Teachers can add and/or change focus skills if they wish.)
6. Students annotate their final drafts and self-assess and reflect on their rubrics (on paper).
7. Teacher uses rubrics and student feedback to assess final drafts (in less time than it takes to grade the "traditional" way).
8. Teacher or students update student Focus Skills Progress Charts on writingprocess.net.
9. Parents can check student progress at any time using writingprocess.net.
10. Teacher and/or students can communicate via a classwide message board (if teacher allows).
11. Teacher can access individual and classwide reports of student progress. (These reports carry over from one year to the next for seamless teaching and learning.)
12. Teacher uses information about student progress to create new assignments and to help each student reach his or her maximum potential.

How can I find out more?

For more information, contact DGP Publishing (706-745-1005). For a trial login ID and password, please click trial login on the left.