Seven Steps to Confident Writing

Author and writing coach Alan Gelb specializes in helping anxious writers find their voice, drawing upon techniques that can improve anyone's writing, sometimes in a matter of days.

Author: Alan Gelb

Publisher: New World Library

ISBN: 9781608685448

Category: Reference

Page: 272

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Not everyone is a natural writer. In fact, most people don't think that much about writing until they'e called upon to write something like an office memo or a wedding speech and find themselves paralyzed with self-doubt. Author and writing coach Alan Gelb specializes in helping anxious writers find their voice, drawing upon techniques that can improve anyone's writing, sometimes in a matter of days. His compact and easy-to-use guide demystifies the writing process and shows readers how to sculpt concise sentences, shape well-structured paragraphs, polish a final draft, and combat procrastination. Best of all, readers will see for themselves that writing is not an inborn talent but a skill that can be mastered with a bit of patience and perseverance.
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The Confident Writer

PREFACE The Confident Writer , Second Edition , focuses on the many choices writers make during the process of developing an idea into a finished essay .

Author: Carol C. Kanar

Publisher:

ISBN: 0395873444

Category: College readers

Page: 518

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The Confident Writing Teacher

" If Shelley Barker's description rings true, then you know that students need more than corrections to thrive as writers.

Author: Shelley Barker

Publisher: Heinemann

ISBN: 0325021686

Category: Education

Page: 128

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"If you are currently a member of the teaching profession, it is very likely that you were never taught to write. Shocked? Think about it. Certainly, we wrote, but what did writing instruction look like when you were a kid? Do you remember receiving any? I do not remember being taught to write. My language arts teachers focused on those things that could be measured and counted as right or wrong, like parsing sentences, identifying linking verbs, and making sure those darned participles didn't dangle." If Shelley Barker's description rings true, then you know that students need more than corrections to thrive as writers. In this practical and uplifting guide, Shelley invites you into her classroom and shares: guidance for nurturing yourself as a writer strategies for building a community of writers in your classroom tools for building lessons and addressing areas of student need models of feedback that motivates writers rubrics that make assessment valuable to students. "Take what you need from your writing past-the positive experiences, the times when you felt successful, the times when writing made sense to you-and leave the rest-the red ink, the negative or empty comments, the references to your spelling and penmanship," Shelley says. "We need to produce confident writers who when faced with difficult writing tasks may not know how to begin, but trust that they have the skills and perseverance to find the way."
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Creating Confident Writers For High School College and Life

... choosing her critical literary theory and doing subsequent research about it, led to a realization that occurred only through the process of writing.

Author: Troy Hicks

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN: 9780393714173

Category: Education

Page: 208

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Writing should be for an audience other than a teacher, and for a purpose beyond getting a grade. Connecting their classroom experience to research about writing, as well as to framing documents in the field, two seasoned writing teachers distill the lessons they’ve learned about creating confident adolescent and young adult writers. Troy Hicks and Andy Schoenborn outline a fundamental stance to their approach—to invite, encourage, and celebrate students’ writing—that is then echoed in the book’s three-part structure. There are numerous classroom activities and assignments on topics from creating writing goals to supporting revision, examples of student work, and questions to guide teachers’ reflections. In this book for any teacher of writing, from middle school through college, readers are invited to try strategies and allow students’ voices to emerge, while discussing with colleagues how these approaches might work for them, too.
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The Confident Student

The 14 chapters in the Fourth Edition are available for modularization , along with 5 additional chapters , including Becoming a Confident Writer , Gaining ...

Author: Carol C. Kanar

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

ISBN: PSU:000048596091

Category: College student orientation

Page: 357

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The Confident Communication Breakthrough Journal

If it has to do with lassoing the right words and wrestling them onto the page or screen, we've done it: imagining, researching, writing, editing, ...

Author: Doug Davin

Publisher: Breakthrough Skills

ISBN: 9781891019296

Category:

Page: 88

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Record, celebrate, and learn from your business writing and presentation breakthroughs.
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