Connecting their classroom experience to research about writing, as well as to framing documents in the field, two seasoned writing teachers distill the lessons theyve learned about creating confident adolescent and young adult writers. Troy Hicks and Andy Schoenborn outline a fundamental stance to their approachto invite, encourage, and celebrate students writingthat is then echoed in the books three-part structure. There are numerous classroom activities and assignments on topics from creating writing goals to supporting revision, examples of student work, and questions to guide teachers reflections.In this book for any teacher of writing, from middle school through college, readers are invited to try strategies and allow students voices to emerge, while discussing with colleagues how these approaches might work for them, too.
Writing should be for an audience other than a teacher, and for a purpose beyond getting a grade.
