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  How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for You

  by Ralph Fletcher

  The Secret of Writing Its misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magic knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are ordinary people who like to write. They feel the urge to write, and scratch that itch every chance they have. Writers get their ideas down on paper using particular strategies that seem to work for them. These strategies are available to... (more)
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  Acts of Teaching: How to Teach Writing: A Text, A Reader, A Narrative

  by Joyce Armstrong Carroll

  Comprehensive, innovative, and practical, this text offers educators a powerful approach to teaching writing. Rather than have students perform repetitive exercises, it focuses on engaging students in grappling with words and experiences to make meaning. Such topics as the paradigm shift from product to process; an overview of the writing process; teaching prewriting and how to shape writing; examining genres;... (more)
• Authentic Strategies for High-Stakes Tests: A Practical Guide for English Language/ArtsJoyce Armstrong Carroll

  

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  Authentic Strategies for High-Stakes Tests: A Practical Guide for English Language/Arts

  by Joyce Armstrong Carroll

  Carroll has done it again! Just when heigh-stakes tests have begun to demoralize even the most enthusiastic teachers, AUTHENTIC STRATEGIES FOR HIGH-STAKES TESTS comes along. In her inimitable teacher-friendly but thorough style, Carroll not only presents hands-on strategies for teaching writing and reading skills, but she also weaves in the theories that support the skills. You'll find no quick-fix formulae here,... (more)
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  Dr. Jac's Guide to Writing With Depth

  by Joyce Armstrong Carroll

  For those who write, for those who want to write, and for those who teach writing–for the neophyte, and for the professional–this book delivers. Joyce Armstrong Carroll's Dr. JAC's™ Guide to Writing with Depth takes up where other writing guides leave off. The strategies for writing with depth as well as tips on ways to deepen writing would be book enough, but Carroll provides depth herself by offering models... (more)
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  From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader

  by Stuart Greene

  Beginning from the premise that all academic writing is conversational — a collegial exchange of ideas, undertaken in a spirit of collaboration in the pursuit of new knowledge — From Inquiry to Academic Writing demystifies cross-curricular thinking and writing by breaking it down into a series of comprehensible habits and skills that students can learn in order to enter those conversations. The second part of... (more)
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  On Writing Well : An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction 2nd Edition

  by William Knowlton Zinsser

  On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly... (more)