Student Writing

The journalism teacher who inspired generations of teenagers to aim for excellence—not just on the high school newspaper but for the rest of their lives—provides the playbook and offers strategies for everyone to improve their writing skills. Part memoir, part instruction manual, former UPI reporter and magazine freelancer Kathleen Neumeyer explains how she inadvertently taught smart but spoiled teenagers how to manage billion-dollar companies, after an inadvertent midlife career change to advising student publications at one of America’s top prep schools. Praise for Kathleen Neumeyer...

Elevate Your Essay Writing Skills covers how to unpack essay and report questions to find keywords for research materials, how to choose research topics and undertake research, how to overcome barriers with referencing, how to adapt one’s writing skills to the type of essay or report they are working on, and how to use case studies, to name but a few.

Compilation of Essays and Paragraphs for College and University Students is that rare English book that can actually help students to write coherently and logically about many topics and subjects. Compilation of Essays and Paragraphs for College and University Students has been put together and designed as a complete and a comprehensive book for helping young and adult learners in college to write and understand the structure of essays and paragraphs. This book is unique because every essay talks about something that is real in this life.

Are you overwhelmed trying to determine how to get into your dream school? This book was created by a mom of six after helping her oldest children get into elite colleges. This book takes you step-by-step through the college application process. This book saves you days of research trying to figure out what you need to have for college apps. Everything you need to know is laid out in an easy to follow format designed to help you through all the steps. Make getting into college stress free! This ebook gives you: Information you need to track each year in high school Testing timeline Tips on ...

You can tell by simply looking at the cover of this book that it isn't your ordinary grammar curriculum. As you look at a stick drawing of a young man with a mouthful of 'gum' balls, you know you're in for a real grammar treat. The publisher refers to this book as, "Shel Silverstein meets Strunk & White." Cathy Campbell has a real knack for making grammar understandable but keeping it humorous. There were times I laughed out loud at her drawings and use of descriptive words. The book is divided into 3 sections - grammar, usage, and mechanics. This is no light coverage of the topics, yet ...

A Realistic Guide to Drastically Improving Your Child’s Writing After twenty-five years as an educator working with at-risk youth, Micheal Maxwell has certainly learned what works and what doesn't in teaching basic writing skills to people who have no real interest in writing. “If your student is failing or falling desperately behind, this guide will give them the tools to build their confidence in writing, and take away the, “I don’t know where to start”. Shari Damaso, recently said in an Amazon.com review, “This is a great tool for adults who want to help kids improve their ...

Do you desire to help those you serve reduce their anxiety, cope with pain, improve their sleep and learn self-care strategies that work? "I recommend this thoughtful, experienced guidance for use by psychotherapists, meditation teachers, chaplains, and wellness, sports or personal coaches – in other words, anyone who wants to incorporate their own recorded guided meditation audios into their practice, to enhance their impact during “off hours”, with the help of these empowering, adjuvant tools.” Belleruth Naparstek ACSW Creator of Health Journeys and author of Invisible Heroes, ...

💡 Want to land an internship that actually sets you up for success instead of fetching coffee and making copies? You’re in college. You know you need an internship. But how do you actually land a high-quality internship—the kind that impresses future employers, builds real skills, and doesn’t make you feel like an unpaid assistant? Welcome to Landing Your Dream Internship, the no-BS, practical guide that breaks down the internship process step by step so you can stop guessing and start getting real results. This isn’t some generic career guide filled with vague advice like “...

A Good Story, That’s the Whole Story Upgrade your story telling skills to an art! Reveal the secrets of how to make a change (in yourself and others), influence, and leave your mark on the way to being Simply Me… • Learn how to share and create meaningful stories, when facing an audience, even if you weren’t born an author… • Reveal the 5 rules of thumb for creating a good story and how anyone can do this. • Discover the 6 types of stories, that can turn any lesson, workshop, and message, even the driest and most boring, into a meaningful, exciting, and fascinating message. In...

Are you headed off to college or already in college? Do you want college to be as effortless as possible? Are you averse to writing papers? You need this book! Presented in a tough-love style, this guide book will teach you how to write papers yet keep from overworking or failing out of college. Author Juliana Griffo is straightforward with you and after a decade of freelancing as a tutor and editor, she's seen a huge range of hardworking and hardly working students and wants to give you the best advice to be an excellent student, without it taking over your life.

In Writing Unbound, Tom Newkirk argues that as a teaching profession, we shoot ourselves in the foot when it comes to writing. We fail to take advantage of a huge opportunity that is before us. That opportunity is fiction writing.

The current curricular emphasis on analytical writing can make it feel risky to teach creative writing in ELA classrooms. But the opportunity to write fiction in school opens many doors for young people: doors the author argues are critical to the development of our students, our education system, and even our democracy. This book will delight English teachers weary of focusing relentlessly on argument and information writing.

This book aims to enhance and enrich the teaching skills of teachers. This book is a guide for teachers who want to improve their teaching skills through microteaching, a technique that simplifies and simulates normal classroom teaching in a controlled way. It helps teachers to gain real-time teaching experience and excel in their career. It explains the fundamental concepts, phases, implementation, and impact of microteaching on education. It also delves into the essential components of microteaching skills, such as introducing the lesson, structuring classroom questions, delivering and ...

Information literacy is about as attractive as teeth extraction. However, for PhD students and citizens more generally, information literacy enables us to sift and sort knowledge from opinion, and expertise from a vibe. Know What You Do Not Know: Information Literacy for PhD Students provides a context around the folk devils of our time: plagiarism, self-plagiarism, influencers and populists. Most importantly, Know What You Do Not Know demonstrates how to take notes, how to reference with clarity, and how to build an opinion into a referenced and considered argument.

Noteworthy Note Making: A Practical Critical Writing Solution for Every Classroom, shares with teachers a step-by-step plan for implementing meaningful note making in any classroom. Noteworthy Note Making is a transferable skill that students can use in school and life. Noteworthy Note Making improves student thinking about, and increases student retention of, content. Noteworthy Note Making when implemented correctly immerses students in a learning environment of high-yield instructional strategies. For schools and classrooms using The Fundamental 5 as an instructional framework, ...

This guide is useful to both students and teachers in understanding the effectiveness of de Waal's rhetorical techniques. Mr. Mulhern is a consultant for the National Math and Science Initiative, a Reader for the English Advanced Placement Exam, and a college and high school educator with twenty-eight years of experience.

This book is a personal spelling dictionary for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade, containing over 700 high-frequency words including, sight words, commonly misspelled words, and academic content words.

Classic Essays for College Students is an initiative to help students get acquainted with a few paradigms of academic papers written by other students that can give them some basic thinking tactics on how they can let their minds play with college subjects. Don't be intimidated by perfectionist attitudes! They constantly make it difficult for us to spread our ideas; being by nature creatures that have trouble dealing with fear, there is one thing that perfectionists always worry about in their state of mind: We are afraid of making mistakes.

Imagine having someone to help you with your writing and publishing business, doing the tasks you never seem to have time to accomplish. Imagine paying that person not with cash, but with experience and learning. That's what it's like when you work with student interns. Working with student interns can make a difference for you as an author or publisher, expanding the possibilities of what you can achieve.

In Preparing Student Athletes to Win, I help you shift from envisioning to planning your sports program, so that you see success in six months, one, three, or five years. Move at a pace that is comfortable for you, while creating an army of people waiting to volunteer, donate, or transfer into your sports program, so that they can join your culture of excellence.