Reading is the best way to learn to write well. Read as much as you can. Think about what you read: how the author made it interesting, or funny, or suspenseful. And write as much as you can, too.
Keep a journal.
he important thing is what you absorb from your surroundings. To be a keen observer….to see and ponder and weigh….to hear the cadence of speech and notice the shrugs and gestures and the way the eyebrows lift or the lip curls…to perceive human relationships and how they work (or don’t)….all of that is what makes a writer.
My personal opinion is that you should not worry about ‘being published’. You should enjoy writing, and writing more and more, so that you become better at
There isn’t anything magical. It’s a lot of hard work, a lot of fun, and a lot of waiting for the words.
Clare Wood, development psychologist at Coventry University
Her own study of primary schoolchildren suggested that texting improved their reading ability.
Texters, after all, are constantly practising reading and spelling. Sure, children tend not to punctuate text messages. But most of them grasp that this genre has different rules from, say, school exams.
George Orwell in 1944 lamented the divide between wordy, stilted written English, and much livelier speech. “Spoken English is full of slang,” he wrote, “it is abbreviated wherever possible, and people of all social classes treat its grammar and syntax in a slovenly way.” His ideal was writing that sounded like speech. We’re getting there at last.
Free with ads. Great online tool for playing with images. You can make all sorts of thinks from posters to nametags. There is a color palette generator and a way to make trading cards.
Connected Learning emerged from the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Initiative, of which the National Writing Project is a key member. Initially released in March 2012, the principles have now been more fully described in a newly released report, Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design
1) Make a point
2) Quote from the text supporting your point
3) Make a connection to your personal experience, another text, or some other knowledge
similar acronym I learned from Kelly — “ABC.” It stands for:
1) Answer the Question
2) Back up your answer with evidence or facts.
3) Comment from a more personal opinion or perspective