Download or read book Not Another Writing Assignment written by Janet Balfour and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing is one of the most difficult tasks children must do, but one of the most creative and rewarding. "Not Another Writing Assignment!" will help children become better writers.

Download or read book Why I Write written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Download or read book The Best Class You Never Taught written by Alexis Wiggins and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best classes have a life of their own, powered by student-led conversations that explore texts, ideas, and essential questions. In these classes, the teacher’s role shifts from star player to observer and coach as the students Think critically, Work collaboratively, Participate fully, Behave ethically, Ask and answer high-level questions, Support their ideas with evidence, and Evaluate and assess their own work. The Spider Web Discussion is a simple technique that puts this kind of class within every teacher’s reach. The name comes from the weblike diagram the observer makes to record interactions as students actively participate in the discussion, lead and support one another’s learning, and build community. It’s proven to work across all subject areas and with all ages, and you only need a little know-how, a rubric, and paper and pencil to get started. As students practice Spider Web Discussion, they become stronger communicators, more empathetic teammates, better problem solvers, and more independent learners—college and career ready skills that serve them well in the classroom and beyond. Educator Alexis Wiggins provides a step-by-step guide for the implementation of Spider Web Discussion, covering everything from introducing the technique to creating rubrics for discussion self-assessment to the nuts-and-bolts of charting the conversations and using the data collected for formative assessment. She also shares troubleshooting tips, ideas for assessment and group grading, and the experiences of real teachers and students who use the technique to develop and share content knowledge in a way that’s both revolutionary and truly inspiring.

Download or read book Reading and Writing Activities on the Go written by Julie Adams and published by Macmillan Education AU. This book was released on 2003 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over 80 activities covering all the key learning areas are included. This book contains motivating themes and exposes students to a diverse range of genres, enabling them to actively experience all forms of writing styles. View sample pages

Download or read book A Basic Study of Writing written by Janet G. Balfour and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have a desire or need to improve your writing skills or need a little help getting started, this book is for you. You will discover that writing will be much easier when you learn how to:  Pick out a topic  Use writing tools  Use the 5 step writing process for both non-fiction and fiction  Use better words and phrases  Write poetry Everyone has at least one book inside just waiting to get out. Write your story and let the world know that you have something to say. After graduating from the University of Colorado, Janet G. Balfour was an elementary school teacher until she retired. Now she writes books to share her knowledge of reading and writing. Also, she gives presentations about a better way to teach reading, the five step writing process, activities that parents can use to keep their children learning, and what parents can do to help with homework. Other books by Janet G. Balfour: Books for parents:  Help! My Kid's Schoolwork is Driving Me Crazy!  Read to Your Kids! Books for children:  Read 24/7  Not Another Writing Assignment!

Download or read book The Pit written by K. C. Greer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The news of a suicide in a small town leaves a high school boys friends and family searching for answers. Inspired by true events, The Pit follows the friendship of four high school wrestlersPaul, Sam, Rick, and Buckywhom are just average young men dealing with average teenage stressors like grades, homework, college prospects, sex, and the need to live up to their reputation as top high school athletes. When they lose one of their own, Paul, the only Christian among the group of friends, starts to doubt the God he always knew and trusted. Will Paul and his friends be able to see and feel the presence of Jesus Christ in a situation that feels utterly Godless?

Download or read book TV and Screen Writing written by Lola Goelet Yoakem and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Twenty Writing Assignments in Context written by Melissa Bender and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty original, classroom-tested assignments: This innovative collection of college writing assignments explores the practical applications of each lesson. Drawing upon current best practices, each chapter includes a discussion of the rationale behind the assignment, along with supplemental elements such as guidelines for evaluation, prewriting exercises and tips for avoiding common pitfalls. The assignments are designed for a range of courses, from first-year composition to upper-division writing in various disciplines.

Download or read book Writing Spaces 1 written by Charles Lowe and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing, much like the model made famous by Wendy Bishop’s “The Subject Is . . .” series. In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about developing nearly every aspect of craft of writing. Consequently, each essay functions as a standalone text that can easily complement other selected readings in writing or writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at any level. Topics in Volume 1 of the series include academic writing, how to interpret writing assignments, motives for writing, rhetorical analysis, revision, invention, writing centers, argumentation, narrative, reflective writing, Wikipedia, patchwriting, collaboration, and genres.

Download or read book Writing Assignments Across University Disciplines written by Roger Graves and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Assignments Across the University Curriculum as a whole asks and answers these questions: What kinds of documents do students write in a wide range of university degree programs in Canada? How do instructors structure those writing assignments? That is, who is the audience for the assignments? Do students get formative feedback as they develop their documents? Do the patterns we found in a small liberal arts college (Graves, Hyland, and Samuels 2010) occur in other kinds of universities? We took our cue from an article by Anson and Dannels (2009) who pointed us toward the idea that students experience a curriculum through their degree progress in an academic program. Consequently, we needed to map the writing assignments according to how different departments organized these degree programs. Results that were organized by curricular unit (departments, faculties or colleges, or programs/units) were more significant than general statistics because students would progress through these courses to a degree. Several chapters in the book describe how this kind of curricular mapping provided a spark for curricular reform in Engineering, Education, and an entire small university. The last two chapters report on the instructors perspective on their assignments: what they were intending to do, and why they both resisted and engaged in curricular discussions.

Download or read book Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Literature Classroom written by Tison Pugh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Literature Classroom offers practical suggestions for educators looking to incorporate ludic media, ranging from novels to video games and from poems to board games, into their curricula. Across the globe, video games and interactive media have already been granted their own departments at numerous larger institutions and will increasingly fall under the purview of language and literature departments at smaller schools. This volume considers fundamental ways in which literature can be construed as a game and the benefits of such an approach. The contributors outline pedagogical strategies for integrating the study of video games with the study of literature and consider the intersections of identity and ideology as they relate to literature and ludology. They also address the benefits (and liabilities) of making the process of learning itself a game, an approach that is quickly gaining currency and increasing interest. Every chapter is grounded in theory but focuses on practical applications to develop students' critical thinking skills and intercultural competence through both digital and analog gameful approaches.

Download or read book Read 24 7 written by Janet Balfour and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read 24/7 contains eleven interesting quick-read stories for children about people and animals that learn new things, conquer their fears and doubts, and discover that life is wonderful.

Download or read book 88 IELTS Band 8 Writing Task 2 written by Caden Davis and published by Caden Davis. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BIG DISCOUNT - ONLY for this WEEKEND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Most people only obtain scores between 5 - 6 in the writing section and do not understand why. The thing is that it is actually quite easy once you know what to do! Achieve IELTS Writing Band 8+ (Task 2 – Academic and General) goes through each part of a high scoring answer and explains exactly how to write it. - See sample high scoring answers written by IELTS Examiner - Discover the elements that have the biggest impact on your score and what to do about them - Learn what high scoring writing answers look like so you can model them and do the same - Get lots of sample questions to practice

Download or read book IELTS Writing Task 2 Academic and General written by Nathan Dixon and published by Nathan Dixon. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BIG DISCOUNT - ONLY for this WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can, just by downloading this book! Inside this book you'll get: - High scoring model answers - The IELTS writing question types (clearly explained) - Suggested answer structure (which you can follow and use yourself) - Scoring criteria (how to write your answers to maximize your score) - Important tips you must know If you're sick of reading different IELTS preparation books, if you're tired of taking the IELTS several times and still not getting the score you want, then you must download this book! It will save you time and you'll quickly understand the differences between low scoring answers and high scoring answers. This book has been put together to guide IELTS students on how to best answer the writing questions. Along with sample answers, which the author has written herself, the book also shares important tips for helping you succeed! Are you still using rote memorization to recall ideas and vocabulary? Are you still leaving things until the last minute? Are you still finding IELTS Writing worrisome? This part is written by a current IELTS examiners. Having been an examiner for several years and having taught IELTS courses, they are familiar with the main problems students face when preparing to take the writing module. This part, with frequently-tested questions and model answers, will expose to you the testing pattern and how to reach the level of the model answers. Essay writing. This part will introduce you how to brainstorm, organize your points and write in response to the question. In addition, brainstorming diagrams will guide you to broaden your mind. There are more than 99 sample questions in this part.

Download or read book Assignments Across the Curriculum written by Dan Melzer and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Assignments across the Curriculum, Dan Melzer analyzes the rhetorical features and genres of writing assignments through the writing-to-learn and writing-in-the-disciplines perspectives. Presenting the results of his study of 2,101 writing assignments from undergraduate courses in the natural sciences, social sciences, business, and humanities in 100 postsecondary institutions in the United States, Assignments across the Curriculum is unique in its cross-institutional breadth and its focus on writing assignments. The results provide a panoramic view of college writing in the United States. Melzer's framework begins with the rhetorical situations of the assignments—the purposes and audiences—and broadens to include the assignments' genres and discourse community contexts. Among his conclusions is that courses connected to a writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) initiative ask students to write more often, in a greater variety of genres, and for a greater variety of purposes and audiences than non-WAC courses do, making a compelling case for the influence of the WAC movement. Melzer's work also reveals patterns in the rhetorical situations, genres, and discourse communities of college writing in the United States. These larger patterns are of interest to WAC practitioners working with faculty across disciplines, to writing center coordinators and tutors working with students who bring assignments from a variety of fields, to composition program administrators, to first-year writing instructors interested in preparing students for college writing, and to high school teachers attempting to bridge the gap between high school and college writing.

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Download or read book Writing Effective Course Assignments written by Elia Shabani Mligo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-degree and undergraduate students are both inexperienced essay writers who need close guidance to become effective writers. One of the puzzles which they encounter at the college and university after reporting for studies is the course assignments offered to them by their lecturers, which demand them to be critical thinkers and argumentative essay writers. In most colleges and universities, lecturers provide to students broad questions to answer in the form of essays, either in group or individual assignments. How should they turn the broad assignment questions provided to them by their lecturers into specific researchable topics for essays? How should they handle literature in order to obtain valuable information to answer the provided question? How should they construct an informed and convincing argument using the collected information as evidence? This book concerns these and other related questions. With its clear illustrations, the book is designed to be a self-study guide and to offer solutions to many struggling students in colleges and universities. At the same time, the book can be helpful for lecturers to instruct their students how to write effective course assignments in their respective courses.