Be a Better Writer: Power Tools for Young Writers!: Essential Tips, Exercises and Techniques for Aspiring Writers

Name: Be a Better Writer: Power Tools for Young Writers!: Essential Tips, Exercises and Techniques for Aspiring Writers
Author: Steve Peha,Margot Carmichael Lester
ISBN: 9780977300013

Steve Peha,Margot Carmichael Lester

Language: English

Published by Leverage Factory, 2006

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270 pages. ex-library Provides essential tips, exercises, and techniques for aspiring writers. Whet her looking for better grades, better self-expression, or a better shot at colle ge, this comprehensive collection of professional writing advice is just what st udents need to be a better writer. Get the inside scoop on the tricks of the tra de categorized by six ingredients of good writing: Ideas, Organization, Voice, W ord Choice, Sentence Construction, and Punctuation. Original.

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Title: Be a Better Writer: Power Tools for Young Writers!: Essential Tips, Exercises and Techniques for Aspiring Writers
Author: Steve Peha,Margot Carmichael Lester
Publisher: Leverage Factory
Publication year: 2006
Condition: Good
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0977300013
ISBN 13: 9780977300013
Dimensions: 14.6cm x 1.9cm x 22.2cm
Seller catalogs: Performing Arts

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Steve Peha is a leading voice on reading, writing, and education reform. As the founder of Teaching That Makes Sense, Inc. (TTMS), he has developed strategies that help teachers deliver more effective instruction and help kids improve their literacy skills.Steve has delivered hundreds of workshops for teachers, administrators, and parents. He has also addressed school boards, PTAs, and other organizations to discuss current challenges in education reform.In 2001, Steve was asked by The Seattle Times to write The Effective Learning Series, a bi-weekly column on best practice teaching that won the Innovators in Education Award from the Newspaper Association of America. Over the years, he has contributed more than 200 columns to this program, most recently an 18-part series on life skills for high school students.Steve holds a BA in English from Boston University. He lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Margot Carmichael Lester, and their dog, Ursa. Margot Carmichael Lester stays on top of two careers, plying her trade as a professional writer and also as a business consultant as President of The Word Factory.Margots writing appears regularly in magazines and newspapers as well as on the web. Her business journalism has been featured in Money Magazine, Multifamily Executive Magazine, The Los Angeles Business Journal, The Los Angeles Downtown News, The Triangle Business Journal and the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer. She is the author of Real Life Guide to Life After College and Real Life Guide to Starting Your Career. Her career advice appears monthly on Monster.com and in newspaper and magazine stories nationally.Prior to founding The Word Factory, her writing and consulting business, Margot served as director of marketing for the nationally-ranked Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Margot began her writing career in high school as the school page columnist for her hometown paper, The Chapel Hill (N.C.) News.Margot holds a BA in Journalism from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, with her husband, Steve Peha, and their dog, Ursa.

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