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Education Professional Development

Essay Writing

Teaching the basics from the ground up

by (author) Jock Mackenzie

Publisher
Pembroke Publishers
Initial publish date
Feb 2014
Category
Professional Development
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551382104
    Publish Date
    Jan 2007
    List Price
    $45.17
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781551388717
    Publish Date
    Feb 2014
    List Price
    $25.95

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Get back to basics with this practical look at the foundations of good essay writing. With personal and classroom anecdotes, ideas and strategies, and samples and reproducibles, this cheerful and accessible book offers real-life advice that both teachers and students can really use.

Each chapter contains easy-to-incorporate lessons along with teaching tips for teaching specific concepts that range from pre-writing exercises to revising and editing to celebrating the final product. The book includes a wide range of innovative approaches to teaching essay writing — from how to picture and "act out" an essay to a winning format for a topic sentence and using scattergrams to turn brainstorming into constructive outlines. Throughout the book, assessment tools and marking keys support simple marking techniques that are visible and relatively frequent, and consider not just the essay, but effort and time on task.

 

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