Tag: guideline
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Guidelines for Writing Paragraphs — Part I
In my last blog, I noted the problem some of my students had with writing sentences and presented a fairly simple four-step process designed to help them overcome that problem. Paragraphing — while usually less of an obstacle than writing sentences — also gave some students trouble. Some students would start a new paragraph arbitrarily,…
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Summarizing My YA Novel
As I look over my previous blog, which focused on five guidelines to follow when summarizing a piece of writing, it occurs to me that it may be simpler to summarize another writer’s composition than your own. For one thing, you can’t avoid using the author’s words in your summary, since you are the author.…