Resources
Bibliography for Teachers
Elbow, Peter. Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Gallagher, Kelly. Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts. Portland: Stenhouse, 2011.
McPhee, John. Draft No. 4. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Murray, Donald M. "The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts.” In Language Awareness: Readings for College Writers, Edited by Paul Eschholz, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark. 8th ed., 161-165. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000.
Pinker, Steven. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. New York: Viking, 2014.
Zissner, William. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
Student Reading List
Grade-10
Bolina, Jaswinder. “Writing like a White Guy: On Language, Race, and Poetry.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 496-505. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Douglass, Frederick. “Learning to Read.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 404-409. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Rodriguez, Richard. “Aria.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 465-471. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
X, Malcolm, and Alex Haley. “Learning to Read.” In The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 174-183. New York: Ballantine Books, 2015.
Grade-11
Didion, Joan. “Keeping a Notebook.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 487-493. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Keillor, Garrison. “How to Write a Letter.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 505-507. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
King, Stephen. “On Writing.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 493-496. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Nabokov, Vladimir. “Good Readers and Good Writers.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 883-888. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Grade-12
Franklin, Benjamin. “Learning to Write.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 484-487. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Orwell, George. “Politics and the English Language.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 14th ed., 510-520. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Welty, Eudora. “One Writer’s Beginnings.” In The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et.al., 14th ed., 877-883. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
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