I love this book because it covers every concept of writing, like genre, rhetoric, narrating, analysis, stance, reporting information, writing reviews, researching and many more, that college students, even just regular writers, need, it's very easy to understand, it's relatable to the students using it, and it has many great features. ... If one needs to know how to write a research paper and any of the required parts along with it, the green pages have that information. ... The information there explains different ways to know what your personal style is and ways to know how to wri...

• Word Count: 1365
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

From 3 to 5 pieces, they choose one to make into a book. ... Occasionally the teacher comes to word that they have to "stretch out" by the way it sounds. ... When the timer sounds, the children put away their work and come to the sharing area to hear what their classmates have written. ... The children also begin to think about story elements, such as characters and setting.  Children also write informational pieces, and they use what they are reading both to get information and to use as models for how to write information... Brainstorming-  The teacher tells t...

• Word Count: 1940
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In his book Letters to a Young Doctor, Richard Selzer addresses some aspects of our own mortality and vulnerability that are not "pretty" to think about. ... Most of Selzer's essays in this book are cases he has had or advice he has for young surgeons. ... One hundred twenty-six pages into the book, however, the reader comes upon a very different essay entitled "The Slug." ... Sight, sound, touch, smell, while the garden revealed its secrets one by one, the intoxicating eyes of mother nature behind her veil of green hair watching him, waiting for the right moment to expose her most pre...

• Word Count: 1358
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Some writers work in comfortable private offices, while others work in noisy rooms with the sounds of computer keyboards, printers and other writers talking in the background. The search for information, ideas or inspirations at times requires traveling to such places as factories, the theater or perhaps even to places like Africa and Australia. ... In most magazines nonfiction articles greatly outnumber poems and short stories nonfiction material ranges from a few hundred words to book length; long articles may be serialized (published in installments or parts) in ...

• Word Count: 1602
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I will also tell my students that we not only read to new information, but for fun as well. ... During the reading workshop, I will first give a book talk then a mini-lesson. ... We will also discuss what I read and what type of book it is so that the children know. ... They can comprehend what they read, use their prior knowledge to help them gain new information, apply acquired information into new contexts, and they are motivated to voluntarily read rather it be for pleasure or to learn new information (Fountas/Pinnell). ... The readers' notebook consist of five sections; the reading...

• Word Count: 3469
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

His first book, "All Over But the Shoutin'," is about his mother. ... In the prologue of the book he writes, this is not an important book. ... The book quickly became a bestseller. ... Here is an excerpt from the prologue, which sets the tone for the rest of the book. ... Ava's Man is Rick's book about his maternal grandfather, a man he never knew, but had heard of through his ...

• Word Count: 4108
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Such texts are concerned with teaching basic concepts and factual information in such content areas as science, social studies, and health. The emphasis on providing basic concepts and factual information to the reader represents a shift from story structures that are inherent in our culture to expository text that utilises a variety of organisational patterns. ... All six passages are taken from a book of readings on different text types called Read and Retell. ... Each passage is complete in itself, that is, not any of the passages relies on another for further information and meaning. ....

• Word Count: 3366
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School