CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.6
The Standard
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Writing Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students draft and share writing in a digital platform. They use comments, revision history, new evidence, and counterarguments to make purposeful updates.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A proficient student manages a clear digital draft, gives useful peer comments, and revises content rather than only fixing surface errors. The published version shows how feedback or new evidence changed the claim, organization, or support.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat publishing as uploading a first draft, or respond to feedback by correcting only spelling and punctuation. They may accept every comment without judgment, overwrite a partner's work, or add sources without checking credibility and citing them.
How to Assess It
- Give students a shared paragraph, one peer comment, and one new source excerpt. Ask them to revise the paragraph in Google Docs and add a comment explaining two changes.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
In Google Docs, pairs revise a weak editorial using Suggesting mode, then use version history to identify three meaningful changes.
Ask students to write: Which peer comment improved your claim most, and which did you reject? Explain both choices with evidence.
Run a revision relay where teams rotate through shared drafts, adding one counterargument, one credible source, and one organization fix.
Have students update a school policy proposal after reading current district data, then publish the revised version for a real audience.
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