Tag: writing
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Everybody Has a Story
Republished from the archives because of its relevance to a new crop of students! Enjoy! Personal Narratives are probably the easiest type of writing to do because everyone is full of stories. Maybe the stories in your life aren’t as exciting as Harry Potter’s, as romantic as Bella Swan’s, or as frightening as Anne Frank’s,…
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Editing and Revising
Your written piece is not yet finished even when you place the period after the last sentence of your first draft. Take a break, celebrate that you’ve completed a big chunk of it, then begin editing and revising. REVISING is when you change the words to make the actual sentences sound better. This can be…
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Seeing the Other Side
Students sometimes have difficulty with persuasive writing. I think that is because students don’t practice persuasion in their daily lives. They ask and are told no, or they whine. That’s about it. A student skilled in the art of persuasion, however, can be refused nothing! (Don’t hold me to that…) Before you can see the…