Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 60
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4758-1404-0 • Paperback • December 2014 • $25.00 • (£18.99)
978-1-4758-1405-7 • eBook • December 2014 • $23.50 • (£17.99)
Billie F. Birnie, PhD, has been teaching writing most of her life, first to students in elementary, middle, and senior high schools, and in recent years, to prospective and experienced teachers. Her published writing ranges from poetry and memoir to professional articles and books on teaching and learning.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Preliminaries
The Writing Process
What Students Must Know about Sentences
What Students Must Know about Paragraphs
What Students Must Know about Essays
How Modeling Works
The Use of Response Groups
How To Use the Rest of This Book
The Strategies
Chronological Order
Spatial Organization
Topical Organization
Comparison
Contrast
Comparison-Contrast
Question-Answer
Traditional Narrative
Point-Counterpoint
Extended Analogy
Teaching the Organizational Strategies (Table)
A Lesson in Modeling Rhythm and Rhyme in Poetry
References