rhetoric

Discusses the importance of keeping a notebook for writers, looking at how writers use their journals to record selected insights, lines, images, ideas, dreams, and fragments of conversation; and considering the notebook as a source of original writing.

Offers guidance and materials for middle school teachers to better assess the writing skills of sixth through eighth grader students, providing scoring guides, sample papers with scores and comments; and including warm-up exercises and lessons to encourage focus. Includes a CD-ROM with reproducibles.

Presents a number of critical essays on the subject of terrorism,and provides writing exercises to help students research, outline, draft, edit, and submit clearly-written essays.

Presents a collection of essays that examine the pros and cons of the issues related to global warming, providing information for students on how to research, outline, draft and edited successful essays.

Contains twenty-four articles written since 1982 in which the author, a retired English professor, explores various aspects of the process of writing and teaching writing.

Uses the letters of the alphabet to introduce young readers to various genres of literature, such as "A" is for autobiography, "E" is for essay, and "Y" is for yearbook.