“Your Writing Coach” is a 248-page book filled with a wealth of practical knowledge, industry insights, writing exercises, and coaching tips that will teach and encourage writers at all levels to write, persist, and sell better. It’s smartly divided into four parts with 18 chapters that covers a remarkable range of issues and topics all writers face somewhere along the spectrum.
Flesch showed us how to make language both simple and persuasive. He caught the public's attention with his own snappy, forceful style. It was in the debate over phonics that he demonstrated the full force of plain language.
Stepping out of his role as a scientist, he became an educator and teacher. He offered practical rules for more readable writing. His own writing was a peerless example of the skill he was trying to teach.
A straightforward approach to basic English grammar and English writing skills. Forty units each composed of 4 lessons for a total of 160 lessons, plus review, skill checks, and answers. 250 pages.
This book for students, parents and teachers grew out of the author's frustration while she corrected college students' philosophy papers. The papers were full of grammatical errors. When she pointed out that a sentence needed a verb to be complete, a typical response was "What's a verb?" She wrote this book to teach basic grammar concepts and show how they are applied in correct writing.
The book has 40 units. Each unit has four parts. The first section of each unit introduces the parts of speech and teaches students how to recognize them. The purpose of this is to make it possible for students to understand the vocabulary of grammar so that they can understand the teacher's corrections. (You can't correct a sentence fragment by adding a predicate if you've no idea what a predicate is.)
The second part of each unit, mechanics, explains a rule or common error associated with the part of speech just taught. The issues chosen reinforce what was learned in the first section while addressing errors commonly found in student writing and the SAT II writing test.
The third part, diagramming, shows students the structure of the English language and provides an ongoing review of the parts of speech that have been learned.
The last section, proofreading, reviews all the skills learned so far and teaches students to examine their work for errors. The ultimate goal of these grammar exercises is correct writing and effective proofreading. As a former English teacher, I am convinced that this is a much-needed book that makes it easy to learn with its straightforward approach and user-friendly exercises. I highly recommend it. Answers are included. 243 pages. Blackline masters are reproducible for classroom use.
Evaluating Children's Writing: A Handbook of Grading Choices for Classroom Teachers introduces and explains a wide range of specific evaluation strategies used by classroom teachers to arrive at grades and gives explicit instructions for implementing them. Samples of student writing accompany the instructions to illustrate the techniques, and an appendix of additional student writing is provided to allow readers to practice particular evaluation strategies.
More than just a catalog of grading options, however, this is a handbook with a point of view. Its purpose is to help teachers become intentional about their grading practices. Along with recipes for grading techniques, it offers a philosophy of evaluating student writing that encourages teachers to put grading into a communication context and to make choices among the many options available by determining the instructional purpose of the assignment and considering the advantages and disadvantages of particular grading strategies. Specific grading techniques are integrated with suggestions about the craft of evaluation--guidelines for instructional objectives, for student audience analysis, and for teacher self-analysis that help define communication contexts.
Indispensable Bible for Writing or Editing!,
January 23, 2008
This book covers it all. If you are serious about your writing or the
writing of others, this book is one-stop shopping. After editing for
over twenty years, this book taught me how to not only think like a
writer and editor, but to also think like a business person. It covers
what references are needed and why, how to edit in an organized manner,
and how to maintain consistency and clarity in any document. This book
also covers electronic, PDF, and PowerPoint editing. Online references
are given for quick assistance while in the process of writing or
editing. Also, there's a test included as to focus on what the writer
or editor's weaknesses are. This book is amazingly up-to-date and
covers most needs for the serious wordsmith.
Flesch showed us how to make language both simple and persuasive. He caught the public's attention with his own snappy, forceful style. It was in the debate over phonics that he demonstrated the full force of plain language.
