Walking into this class this year I was so small minded in the art of writing. Thinking that I already knew everything about it, I soon realized that creative writing wasn’t a joke. To me writing was putting pencil to a paper and making the words go to together, but Mr. Sullivan showed us that there is much more to writing than just a piece of wood and a piece of paper. He showed us that there are five steps to a perfect story.
“The Hook” The hook is a the part of a story in which has your topic sentence, and describes what you will be reading in the following paragraphs.
Three Main Points The three main points are the three topics that answer the question or describes your topic sentence.
Concluding paragraph The concluding paragraph
“The Hook” is written by K. M. Weiland. She is the IPPY and NIEA Award-winning and an author read all over the world. Her Amazon bestsellers are Structuring Your Novel and Outlining Your Novel, as well as the western A Man Called Outlaw, and Jane Eyre: The Writer’s Digest Annotated Classic, the medieval story Behold the Dawn, and the fantasy novel Dreamlander. She has won Writer’s Digest’s “101 Best Websites for Writers” for two years, and has appeared on npr’s podcast, “All Things Considered”. Her story, “The Hook” is a helpful essay on catching a reader within your first paragraph using a “Hook”.
Lamott suggests in “Shitty First Drafts” that many people imagine good writers as being able to miraculously put out a complete and polished piece of work in one sitting. She also plainly reminds the reader that this is an idealized fantasy. Writing is hard work, and it can be very intimidating. To overcome this, she offers the
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Writing and reading are two essential skills that we need to have in order to succeed in any field of study that we have chosen. Without these two we would not be here, wouldn’t be writing right now and would be considered the lowest class of our society. There are different aspects of writing that each of us may, or may not, excel at. Some of us are creative enough to write short stories or even novels on fiction while others, like me, are better at writing essays. To accomplish this we have all had a person to inspire us, to drive us, to get us over the hump of confidence that we need to succeed. Still to be successful we need to count on ourselves to succeed.
In his essay, "Teach Writing as a Process not a Product," Donald Murray outlines the major difference between the traditional pedagogy that directed the teaching of writing in the past and his newly hailed model. Traditionally, Murray explains, English teachers were taught to teach and evaluate students' writing as if it was a finished product of literature when, as he has discovered, students learn better if they're taught that writing is a process. For Murray, once teachers regard writing as a process, a student-centered, or writer-centered, curriculum falls into place. Rules for writing fall by the way side as writers work at their own pace to see what works best for them.
Literature and writing can be shown as hidden talents to people who are not aware of their capabilities. In the story “Learning to Write”, Russell Baker embellished a story that can relate to high school students. His teacher, Mr. Fleagle assigning an informal essay to the students, and Russell struggling and procrastinating his work, is relatable to many students that go through the same conflicts as him. The memory of when Russell and his family ate spaghetti was the topic that he felt that he should write and reminiscence on for himself. With the lack of time that Russell had, he decided to turn in his story of “The Art of Eating Spaghetti.” Turning in his paper to Mr. Fleagle, he felt uneasy because he did not receive his paper like everyone
During my student teaching experience, I had the opportunity to teach a 3 week long narrative writing unit. The students were to write about an important event or incident that happened in their life. Over the course of the 3 weeks, the students worked through the writing process as well as learned skills that would help them with their writing in the future. The purpose of this paper is to discuss and reflect on teaching the narrative unit, what went well about the unit, what did not go as well, and how the course has impacted by development and growth as a student and teacher of writing.
I began my journey as a Talonette my freshman year with the sole purpose of my sister trying out. I made a last minute decision to tryout for the team the day of the audition meeting. It was one of the best decisions I have made in my life. Once I found out I made the team I was so excited! I knew I would be making lots of friends and great memories.
5-7. It was the quarter finals at the Mississippi State Championships for individual singles, and I had just lost the first set.
Austin taught me how to kick a soccer ball, how to curve a soccer ball, how to serve a volleyball, how to return a volleyball serve, I was a setter this volleyball season and I was just as good as the grade 9 setter. Austin has really helped me with my volleyball skills and me being on the main line in volleyball since grade 6. He also does fun things with me like sports. All my other siblings are too lazy to do anything with me even as easy as bringing the baseball gloves out and playing a game of catch. Austin always wants to go outside with me which is awesome and he lets me decide what.
Two of the most influential approaches to teaching writing are product and process approaches. In the product approach, writing is seen as a final product and, thus, the evaluation is limited to this product. However, this approach has been mostly ineffective, because improvement of the final product depends on improving the process through which the writer produces the product (Chastain, 1998). In the process approach, however, writing is considered a “non-linear, exploratory, and generative process whereby writers discover and reformulate their ideas as they attempt to approximate meaning” (Zamel, 1983, p. 165). The writing process, according to Leki (1992), includes prewriting (generating and organizing ideas), drafting, revising, and editing. Revision is an integral part of the writing process which requires effective feedback, especially in the earlier stages. Wells, Chang, and Maher (1990) believe that collaboration throughout ...
Taking care of a child was something I thought was not so hard. I knew it required meeting the child’s basic needs like feeding, clothing, and attention. But after having my son in January of 2018, I had acknowledged it took more of those things I had listed. It took love, dedication and time to make sure that a child has the foundation of being mental, emotionally, and socially stable. Even though , I had previously worked with children in the past, it was hard to understand why children behave the way they are in any interactions with people. I had first had my experience with children when I was ten, I would babysit my four younger siblings. Later, I started babysitting for family friends and neighbors. During my elementary years, I
It all starts out as a normal weekend day in November of 2015, just a week or two after my 16th birthday. I get to catch up on my sleep for the week, and wake up without worrying about rushing to school. That is always a great feeling to wake up to. So as a 16 year old teen boy, what do I do when I get up? Of course I have to eat right away and satisfy my never ending hunger. I go downstairs and dig in the cereal cabinet and find one of my favorites; Frosted Flakes. Then, after eating, I do something that I fancy doing at least a couple times each weekend, I play video games. I turn on my new, pristine PS4, make sure Black Ops 3 (the call of duty that had just come out at the time) is in and start it up, then join in a chat party with some
The ability to write well is not a naturally acquired skill; it is usually learned or culturally transmitted as a set of practices in formal instructional settings or other environments. Writing skills must be practiced and learned through experience. Writing also involves composing, which implies the ability either to tell or retell pieces of information in the form of narratives or description, or to transform information into new texts, as in expository or argumentative writing. Perhaps it is best viewed as a continuum of activities that range from the more mechanical or formal aspects of “writing down” on the one end, to the more complex act of composing on the other end (Omaggio Hadley, 1993). It is undoubtedly the act of
My eyes abruptly opened in the middle of the night as I heard screams coming from the hallway. The door to my room swung wide open as my mom rushed in, grabbing my arm and throwing my siblings and myself into our closet. Right before the door shut, I glimpsed the red flushed face of a man holding a gun. I realized that man was my father. My eyes shut as I was thinking to myself “this is not happening” while squeezing my siblings hands half wishing this was all a dream I was about to wake up from. Screams continued to fill the air for what seemed eternity. I still do not know to this day if those screams were from others or from myself. It all stopped once the gun went off. Silence pierced the air as sharp as a knife. I could hear my own heart