Quotes from Jeff Anderson

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. —Stephen King

Conclusions that echo an image or idea from the lead are powerful.

Grammar includes all the principles that guide the structure of sentences and paragraphs: syntax-the flow of language; usage-how we use words in different situations; and rules-predetermined boundaries and patterns that govern language in a particular society. Mechanics, on the other hand, are ways we punctuate whatever we are trying to say in our writing: punctuation, capitalization, paragraphing, formatting.

Knowing basic information about genre, form, and mode gives students options to shape and organize their ideas.

The true self is always in motion—like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why you must freely and recklessly make new mistakes—in writing or life—and do not dwell on them but move on and write more. —Brenda Ueland

It's about identifying the patterns and the attributes that construct them. It's about making form work for your writing task

Let others do your work for you. Use quotes, anecdotes, information from other authorities; let them carry your message across. —Vladimir Nabokov

Metaphors Be With You

Whatever you do … avoid piles. —T. S. Eliot

Not everything we write will be great. That's natural.

Writing is not about impressing; it is about expressing.

You can't tell the reader what it means at the end. The reader has to know what it means, and feel what it means. The reader has to be there experiencing the text. —Don Murray

We can't motivate them by deluging them with more terminology or someone else's bulleted lists. We can't motivate them to revise their writing by stapling a rubric or checklist to their paper. We can't motivate them by simply hanging some posters on the wall. We must facilitate writing behaviors.