For episode 36, I share a helpful acronym from Richard Fulkerson called the STAR criteria. STAR can prompt learners (or all of us) to ask: is my support sufficient, typical, accurate, and relevant? STAR can also be helpful for writing transfer. While I've used the STAR criteria to help students make decisions about support or evidence they might use in an essay, Substack, report or any other written assignment based on genre, I've also used it to help students make decisions about how they support reflection about their own writing in metacognitive assignments. To my mind, metacognitive reflection is a skill in its own right, and appropriate support can and should come from the student's own writing life. STAR can help students This episode walks through how I have used the STAR criteria recently, both for writing practice and for reflection.

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