| Description |
1 online resource (358 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Getting Started; Chapter 3: Organizing; Chapter 4: Characters; Chapter 5: Point of View, Voice, and Mood; Chapter 6: Setting; Chapter 7: Plot and Pacing; Chapter 8: Flowing Between Nonfiction and Fiction: Finding the Story; Chapter 9: Poetry; Chapter 10: I'm Stuck!; Chapter 11: Revising and Critiquing; Chapter 12: Time to Reflect; Recommended Resources; Index |
| Summary |
In order to teach writing effectively, teachers must be writers themselves. They must experience the same uncertainty of starting a new draft and then struggling to revise. As they learn to move past the fear of failure, they discover the nervous rush and exhilaration of sharing work with an audience, just as their students do. Only by engaging in the real work of writing can teachers become part of the writing community they dream of creating for their students. . Kate Messner's new book, 59 Reasons to Write, shows teachers and librarians who teach writing how to be stronger role models for |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching.
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Creative writing.
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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Creative writing
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching
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English language -- Rhetoric
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1625310382 |
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9781625310385 |
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