Mbo-Schrijfvaardigheidsonderwijspraktijk

Abstract

This master thesis looks into the writing education as practised in vocational colleges in The Netherlands: how do teachers in these colleges attempt to get their students to produce written texts at the quality required of the students to graduate; this quality is dictated by law? And how effective are these methods. In summary there are two methods used by these teachers that are apparently quite effective: one method lets students write an assignment, receive feedback and, based on said feedback, rewrite the assignment. The other method is that students observe a finished product written by a professional, and in the process not only read this product but analyse how it was set up and think about the writing process that is needed to make that product, before they start writing their own assignment. It seems this method works best with short texts such as business letters.