برنامج قائم على إستراتيجيات ما وراء المعرفة لتنمية مهارات الكتابة الإقناعية لدى طلاب المرحلة الثانوية
The aim of this study is to develop a program based on strategies of Metacognition for developing the skills of persuasive writing for secondary school students. The researcher prepared a list of required skills of persuasive writing for secondary school students. Furthermore, the researcher prepared an examina¬tion for measuring the skills of persuasive writing of second secondary school students, as well as Analytic Rubric Scoring. Then, the researcher created a program based on strategies of Metacognition for developing the skills of persuasive writing, using three strategies of metacognition. Using the experi¬mental pre and post design for the same group, the study reached the following results: 1) List of the persuasive writing skills that are required to the second secondary students at K.S.A. This list includes the following skills; highlight the main and sub ideas of the subject, showing the different point of views of the theme and inserting some evidence that support a point of view. 2) The effectiveness of the study program in developing the persuasive writing skills of second secondary school students as a whole. The researcher attributes this result to the program that enabled the students to learn the good planning of writing, determine the purpose of the writing, putting headline that express the theme and determining the main and sub ideas of the theme, as well as determining its relevant resources and finally selecting the appropriate method for showing the theme on the others. 3) The effectiveness of the current study program in developing the sub skills. These sub-skills are general skills of the written theme, skills of introduction writing, skills of content writing and finally skills of writing the conclusion. The study recommended the need to include persuasive writing skills at all academic levels. These skills should be compatible and suitable with the mental and lingual level of the students of each level. Finally, the study suggested a group of researches and studies that can be done for enriching the field of learning and educating the writing skills. (Published abstract)