Reviving the Essay: How to Teach Structure Without Formula

Reviving the Essay: How to Teach Structure Without Formula
ISBN-10
1931492131
ISBN-13
9781931492133
Category
English language
Pages
83
Language
English
Published
2005-01-01
Author
Gretchen Bernabei

Description

If reading school essays puts you to sleep, Gretchen Bernabei's REVIVING THE ESSAY will wake up your students' writing in ways even they never dreamed of. This exciting new resource for students and teachers provides 30 delightful lessons and activities that will awaken all of the senses, challenging and cajoling, stirring and stimulating even the most reluctant writer. Chapter headings such as "Finding your Message," "Finding or Inventing your Structure," "Experimenting with Thick Description," and "Crafting the Essay for a Reader's Ears" quickly reveals the substance and scope of this inventive approach to teaching a form that dates back to Montaigne. Bernabei uses a number of examples, visual prompts and verbal generators to engage students in thinking about every side of a subject.

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