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Hot Words: A Student's Guide to Writing Truth
- Author:
- Flood, Kathi
- Subjects:
- Language Arts; Writing
- Age:
- 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
- Grade:
- 9, 10, 11, 12
- ISBN:
- 0-88092-599-X
- Order code:
- 5990
- Price:
- $19.99
- Online Price:
- $15.00
A high-interest resource for emerging high-school writers, Hot Words is based on the concept of "experience-based" writing. It is designed to encourage new writers to:
- find their inner voice
- explore their world
- develop a point of view
- triumphantly report their findings on paper
The upbeat tone of the book helps students master a variety of expository and narrative formats and is based on:
Motivation: offers students structure and a set of attitudes.
Warmups: describes forty single-day assignments and eighty short journal entries. Scientific developments, politics, the history of pop culture, and person reflections are examples offered to help students develop colourful and accurate writing.
Mechanics: overviews grammar, word choice, and structuring. It includes summaries and worksheets and a comprehensive checklist.
Formats: fifteen week-long exercises which include: information report, cause and effect, compare and contrast, critique, autobiography, humor, multiple points of view, character descriptions, scriptwriting, poetry, and the very short story.
A high-interest resource for emerging high-school writers, Hot Words is based on the concept of "experience-based" writing. It is designed to encourage new writers to:
- find their inner voice
- explore their world
- develop a point of view
- triumphantly report their findings on paper
The upbeat tone of the book helps students master a variety of expository and narrative formats and is based on:
Motivation: offers students structure and a set of attitudes.
Warmups: describes forty single-day assignments and eighty short journal entries. Scientific developments, politics, the history of pop culture, and person reflections are examples offered to help students develop colourful and accurate writing.
Mechanics: overviews grammar, word choice, and structuring. It includes summaries and worksheets and a comprehensive checklist.
Formats: fifteen week-long exercises which include: information report, cause and effect, compare and contrast, critique, autobiography, humor, multiple points of view, character descriptions, scriptwriting, poetry, and the very short story.
