Reading for Writing: Modeling the Modern Essay

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.01.03

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Audience and Purpose
  3. The Craft of Writing
  4. Mentor Texts
  5. Teaching Strategies
  6. Selecting Student Readings
  7. Classroom Activities
  8. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  9. Resources
  10. Notes

To Whom It May Concern: Considering Audience and Purpose in Writing

Simon C. Edgett

Published September 2019

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Notes

  1. Gallagher, Kelly. Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts. Portland: Stenhouse, 2011. 7-8.
  2. Elbow, Peter. Writing With Power. New York: Oxford, 1998. 220.
  3. Elbow, Peter. Writing With Power. New York: Oxford, 1998. 128-9.
  4. Zinssner, William. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction—30th Anniversary Edition. New York: Collins, 2006. 25.
  5. Murray, Donald M. “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts.” The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues Across the Disciplines. Ed. Gilbert H. Muller. New York: CUNY, 2002. 58.
  6. Murray, Donald M. “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts.” The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues Across the Disciplines. Ed. Gilbert H. Muller. New York: CUNY, 2002. 56.
  7. Gallagher, Kelly. Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts. Portland: Stenhouse, 2011. 8-9, 15.
  8. McPhee, John. Draft No. 4. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. 18.
  9. X, Malcolm, and Alex Haley. “Learning to Read.” In The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Ballantine Books, 2015. 174.

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