Quotes from Jeff Anderson

When you say a word—negative or positive—you release powerful forces. Every word you say has power. There is no such thing as a powerless word. —Marianne Williamson

As the writer, I know, but does my reader?

Diction is not memorizing vocabulary, not memorizing word lists, not overusing the thesaurus, not replacing all the short words with long ones.

Writing should be a joyous act, not drudgery, and frankly so should the teaching of it.

The right words communicate; the wrong words obfuscate.

students suffer from page fright.

You are learning what you aren't writing, and this is helping you find out what you are writing. —Anne Lamott

Writing is writing

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. —Mason Cooley

English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.

Sentences live—they reach out, they move and breathe.

Singing a worship song is not necessarily worship, and neither is writing a check. But when the heart engages in a meaningful way through a praise song or a hymn, it becomes more than just singing. And when the heart engages through a gift that matters, it becomes more than just writing a check.

Relationships between seemingly separate ideas can start to make their own whole when we stand at a distance, searching for patterns.

When you say a word—negative or positive—you release powerful forces. Every word you say has power. There is no such thing as a powerless word. —Marianne Williamson I

Science starts with a question.

Texts are teachers.

Our best writers read the most.

writing is performance.

selecting and collecting the right texts is just as important for writing instruction.

We must have the courage to write those first words, stringing them together and perhaps stumbling, but staying in motion.

In writing, authors use modes to make meaning and clarity.

Name names and your writing will stick with readers.

The way to reach [struggling learners] is to encourage them to notice data available to their senses. The process of reflective awareness helps students develop their cognitive structures to process information and create meaning. —Betty Garner

What we have to learn, we learn by doing. —Aristotle