Liberating Scholarly Writing
Why, you might ask, is personal narrative writing important to educators and other helping professionals? This question is actually the impetus for the entire book that follows. .... Good teaching, good helping, and good leadership are, in one sense, all about storytelling and story-evoking. It is in the mutual exchange of stories that professionals and scholars are able to meet clients and students where they actually live their lives. It is in the mutual sharing of our personal stories, particularly in the willingness of professionals to listen to the stories of others, that we make the deepest connections with those we are serving....
How to Write
This is not a writing manual, nor a guide to grammar, nor to rhetoric. Obviously not: look at its length, or lack of it. It is only a small book aiming to help you form ideas about writing, and to write whenever you want to. Writing need not be an ordeal nor an impossible feat. It is a do-able task: one that becomes a pleasure when you get into it. Reading this book should make writing easier, and should keep you from breaking your head in attempts on the impossible. But I don’t guarantee masterpieces. In fact, I don’t mean to deal with creative writing. How could one ever generalize about the ways of creative writers? Their methods are individual to a fault: some pursue total spontaneity; some mull over poems for months and then
write them in a day
Writing a Report: How to Prepare, Write and Present Effective Reports
IPS Journal This book has real value... Thoroughly commendable.
With this updated 7th edition, John Bowden offers a comprehensive and
practical guide to report writing. Among the topics featured are
preparation and planning, collecting and handling information, style,
grammar, and writing and revising a report.
Writing Warm Ups: 70 Activities for Prewriting
Warm-up students' writing muscles (and skills!) with this creative
teacher resource of activities and photocopiable exercise sheets!
Designed to sensitize English learners to the process of writing before
their first compositions go down on paper, these 70 activities
introduce such writing concepts as audience, purpose, point of view,
focus, classification, sequence, cause and effect, and comparison and
contrast. Every activity has easy-to-follow teacher notes and minimal
preparation for the teacher. An answer key is included. This is truly a
fun "workout room" for getting the writing skills of English learners
"in shape!"
B: Illustrate organizing elements, such as topics sentences, supporting details, and signal words.
F: Step-by-step activities
B: Guide students in major rhetorical forms, such as comparing and contrasting, describing, analyzing data, writing test answers, letter writing, and summarizing.
F: Varied and contextualized writing opportunities
B: Assist students with real-life tasks.
F: Editing and proofreading exercises
B: Help students perfect their composition skills.
