Teaching Writing

Hollywood, the music industry, and large corporations promise happiness, pleasure, popularity, and power if we would just buy what they are selling. But their tactics are smoke and mirrors, and their promises are hollow. From photoshop to misleading advertising to the use of paid celebrities, a cocktail of lies tell us how we are supposed to look and feel about ourselves.

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.

The seventh book in the Matthew Diggerson Mystery series, Read to Me involves "Digger" reading his own book to his wife, Anna, who seems bedridden--why? A mystery within a mystery, this story introduces Digger's protagonist, Billy D Wilder, along with new villains and a new dog, Snowy the Chihuahua.

The author of over 100 titles, take Matt Shaw's hand and let him guide you through his writing process, sharing formatting tips, writing tactics and secrets that have helped him reach the elusive number one spot on numerous occasions. And then - when you're done - take the tips you want, adapt them to your needs and release your work... And then start that difficult second book... Rinse and repeat...

Learn how to find fulfillment and still your mind through the teachings of Buddha. This book contains a brief overview of Buddhism. Like many heroic stories, the tale of this religion starts with one man's quest. Siddhartha Gautama was no ordinary man. He was a prince who gave up riches and a life of comfort in order to pierce the veil of body, mind, and spirit. With his fearless confidence and deep compassion for others, he achieved what few before him had ever known.

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 ...

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, ...

Eliminate writers' block and creatively express thoughts through creative writing! Do you need some yawn-proof and sleep-proof writing exercises to get your students to actively participate? Then this book is for you, as it is very complete and is designed to be taught over 16 weeks. It can, of course, be taught in less by combining some of the lessons into one week. So it would work with an 8-week or even a 12-week course schedule.

For those looking to teach English in Japan or are already there, this series offers hard-won lessons of how to land with a running start and set yourself up for success.

Book 4 in the Matthew Diggerson Mysteries series: this story takes place a year after "Marked for Murder" ended.

This book contains four essays written over 28 years ago while I was teaching writing and literature in the secondary school classroom. I do not wish to make apologies for the unpolished prose style of the essays or for arguments I once would have avidly defended, but today no longer stir a whole lot of zeal in me. Hopefully, a new generation of English teachers will find a few of the ideas contained in the essays of some value today.

This book is for instructors of media writing. Students can explore media writing as a means of improving their research and writing skills or to pursue a print-journalism focus in the communication major. Students will learn how to develop and organize ideas, adapt their writing for specific audiences, and revise and polish their prose style. The book is divided into eight lessons.

This journal features questions for discerment from the 20+ interviews given at the Called to Communicate conference held online at calledtocommunicate.com.

This Series has three volumes containing more than 100 selections totaling 1200 pages from my writings over the past 60 years. They are divided by decades: Volume 1: 1960-1981; Volume 2: 1982-2003; Volume 3: 2004-2025. Each selection is linked to a Web based archived copy of the original article or book, so that readers can view them with their Web browser. A wide range of topics are included. In Volume 1: semantic satiation; bilingualism and language learning; psycholinguistics and discourse analysis; ethnomethodology and ethnosemantics; rhetoric and stylistics; measuring foreign language ...

This Series has three volumes containing more than 100 selections of my 60 years of writings totaling 1200 pages and containing 1000 Web links to archived copies full text of the original articles or books from which the selections are taken. The Series is divided by decades: Volume 1: 1960-1981; Volume 2: 1982-2003; Volume 3: 2004-2025. Each selection is linked to a Web based archived copy of the original article or book, so that readers can view them with their Web browser. A wide range of topics are included. In Volume 1: semantic satiation; bilingualism and language learning; ...

This book chronicles the second, third and fourth years of these adventures, including the day-to-day life of a teacher at The American School of Kinshasa from 2007-2009 who deals with a marginal infrastructure while facing the everyday challenges of living in a war-torn third-world country, and has some great adventures in South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda and Zanzibar.

You are sure to laugh when a Nevada housewife, struggling through her own midlife crisis, shares her experiences while teaching in China. Through a plentitude of cultural nuances and interesting characters, Salyer details her touching and provocative journey leading to a greater appreciation for everything American. Whether you desire to teach abroad, make a life change or merely satisfy your own curiosity, this story is filled with the truths of one woman's journey and teaching experience abroad.