In Research & Writing Activities That Explore Family History students will learn to use resources such as family records, the internet, religious records, diaries and journals, cemeteries, census records, wills, photographs, newspapers, etc., to discover interesting family facts and events. They are given questions to answer and related activities to complete based on their findings. As students get a sense of their family history, they will be anxious to use their creative writing skills to tell the sometimes dramatic, but always unique, stories they have uncovered about their interesting families.
Milliken's Report Writing provides students with step-by-step instructions and careful samples in order to produce a high quality, carefully researched, and well organized report. Included in this guide are 180 challenging ideas for reports on social studies and health topics to help stimulate students' interest in subjects and aid them in cultivating their own ideas for topics and areas of interest.
Writing assignments are road maps-or they should be. They guide the writer on a journey. They lay out a process, envision a destination. They are designed. As Jim Burke explains it: "What we are really doing when we create a year's worth of writing assignments, of experiences, is designing a story. Each day's class a sentence, each week a paragraph, each unit a chapter in the story of the year students spend in our classes. And as with any good story, there needs to be tension and transformation by the time one arrives at the end, or what I have called 'the user's journey.'" These maps are crucially important for engaging students with academic writing, which is often unfamiliar territory. Drawing on his extensive review of academic writing assignments across the country, Jim identifies six major categories of writing assignments that help students become better writers, readers, and thinkers: - Writing to learn - Short answer - Writing on demand - Process paper (which goes through multiple drafts) - Research paper/report - Alternate forms (multimedia presentations, etc.). For each assignment type, Jim invites us into his own practice. He shows how he composes the assignment, how he creates gateway activities to help prepare students, how he troubleshoots common problems, how he gives response, how he clarifies the criteria on which students will be judged. He also shows how these assignments are related-how the earlier assignments build to later more complex ones So please join a master teacher at work. Take this journey with him.
Provides immediate help for anyone preparing a biomedical paper by givin specific advice on organizing the components of the paper, effective writing techniques, writing an effective results sections, documentation issues, sentence structure and much more. The new edition includes new examples from the current literature including many involving molecular biology, expanded exercises at the end of the book, revised explanations on linking key terms, transition clauses, uses of subheads, and emphases. If you plan to do any medical writing, read this book first and get an immediate advantage.
New material featured in this edition includes updates and replacements of older data sets, a broader range of disciplines represented in models and examples, a discussion of discourse analysis, and tips for Internet communication.
This activity workbook is designed to give students practice in the formation of the letters of the modern manuscript alphabet. Each letter is introduced with an accompanying picture. The proper formation of each letter is shown with numbered pen strokes and shaded letters for the child to practice tracing. Additionally, there are several lines for practice. If a student is having difficulty with a particular letter formation, try to identify at which stroke he or she is encountering difficulty. Practice these strokes individually before attempting to draw the actual letter. Good modern manuscript writing comes with practice. These pages offer a sequential program of development and practice with examples for guidance.
Includes subjects such as selecting a topic, gathering and organizing information, outlining, proofreading and using description to make writing 'sparkle.'
There are many books to help Korean students write in English, but few deal with writing at the scholarly level. This is a book which deals with academic research paper writing and is designed primarily for Korean post-secondary writers. This book introduces and explains to the undergraduate or graduate student how to better plan, research, write, and edit an argument paper, thesis, or journal publication in MLA or APA format. While it is tailored to Hanyang University students, the information here is meant to be helpful for a broad audience of writers.
