Student writers—especially reluctant ones—often struggle with choosing the most fitting words to create an appropriate tone or mood in their writing. As a result, their essays end up with a lot of words like “nice” or “things” or “people.” These words are fine (another less-than-stellar word), but...
For some reason, students always struggle when teachers ask them to incorporate sources. It is a process that takes practice to do seamlessly, but when done well, it can boost your credibility in any argument. The thing that is so puzzling about our struggle to incorporate summaries, paraphrases...
If you teach seniors, you probably spend time on writing strategies for the dreaded college essay. Jennifer Nash provides a way to lead into teaching the college essay that's more engaging than a practice essay.
