Helping Students Write Beautiful Words

or "How I Fell in Love in a Graveyard."

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

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Writing that people choose to read. That is what I’m after. Is it perfect? Grammatically, often not. Sometimes incomplete sentences. Sometimes an awkward word. But riveting, oh yes. Great writing is riveting.

I was arrested by this comment in Peter Elbow’s book Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process. Elbow says,

“Much “excellent” school and college...