The CPEHS School-Wide
Writing Policy
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As a student, CPEHS has clear expectations for your writing.
To elicit your best efforts, the staff will engage you in more varied writing activities in all subjects.
Classroom practices that are correct in their propriety, simplicity, flexibility, and practices include:
1. You should always write (and speak and think) in complete sentences. Students should never (special creative purposes aside) write run-on sentences or sentence fragments.
2. Sentences should be organized into paragraphs. The paragraph is the basic unit of construction for all written work.
3. You must realize the difference between paraphrasing and plagiarism.
4. It is suggested that a minimum of 25 books be read throughout the year.
5. Different writing styles will be learned for various purposes; for example, resumes, letters, essays, reports, articles, scenes, speech/debates and others.
We ask all teachers in our learning community to make their classrooms come alive with a thoughtful approach to integrating writing across the curriculum.
