ISBN: 9780545013635

Description: 336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 CD-ROM.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-333) and index.

Contents:

• Pt. 1: What we've learned about the teaching of writing. Teaching writing in middle school today: challenges and opportunities
• The writing traits and the writing process: what they are and how they came to be
• Embedding the traits into the process
• part 2: The revision traits. Ideas: to snorkel or to scuba dive?
• Organization: beyond the formula
• Voice: anything but boring!
• Word choice: in search of the perfect union
• Sentence fluency: hearing is believing
• The editing traits. Conventions: reader ready
• Presentation: lookin' good!

Control Number: 3089690

Series:

• Teaching resources.
• Theory and practice (New York, N.Y.)

Subjects:

• English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Middle school)
• English language -- Style.