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More Consideration of Video as Text
I have been curious about ways I can bring in the concept of “video as text” to my students other than “here’s the video” of the story we just read. That seems too passive, and with our new curriculum...
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The Nation's Report Card: Writing 2011: Executive Summary
The Nation's Report Card: Writing 2011: Executive Summary...See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Our Summer Writing Contest: What A Response! : NPR
Three thousand and counting. That's how many of your original short stories we've received so far in our Three-Minute Fiction summer writing contest. Here are some of our favorites.See it on Scoop.it,...
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The Writing Revolution
In the coming months, the conversation about the importance of formal writing instruction and its place in a public-school curriculum—the conversation that was central to changing the culture at New...
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To DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) or to DREAM (DRop Everything And Make)
Part of Manny Vega’s mosaic mural Espiritu will be a piece that features The Trickster, a mythical creature that shows up across time and cultures. As a mosaic, Vega is afforded the ability to insert...
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Online And In The Open: Transparent Novel Writing : NPR
Silvia Hartmann is writing a novel in Google Docs so that readers can see her story appear line by line, edit by edit. Host Scott Simon talks with writer Silvia Hartmann about her progress.See it on...
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Twitter fiction: 21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels
We challenged well-known writers – from Ian Rankin and Helen Fielding to Jeffrey Archer and Jilly Cooper – to come up with a story of up to 140 characters.See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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dropping knowledge :: Table of Free Voices
dropping knowledge (droppingknowledge) is a global initiative to turn apathy into activity.See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Incorporating an Audio Assignment into your Classroom: The PSA
So let’s say you don’t have a ton of experience incorporating audiovisual elements into your writing classroom assignments. Let’s also say that may...See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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The many stages of writing a research paper
Watch as computer scientist Timothy Weninger goes through 463 drafts of a scientific research paper.See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Revisualizing Composition: Mapping the Writing Lives of First-Year College...
This white paper reports initial findings from a Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center study entitled Revisualizing Composition: Mapping the Writing Lives of First-Year College...
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Philosophy and the Poetic Imagination
Poetry can help awaken us to the richness of the language that surrounds us, even in the seeming cacophony of the digital age.See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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The Daily Routines of Famous Writers
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Two Views of Writing: Woody Allen and John McPhee
"...As I was watching it, I was reminded of an article I had just read in The New Yorker by John McPhee, who writes about how he writes in a piece called “Structure.” (I think it is part of the paid...
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