Writing from Life Collecting and Connecting

Quotations, essays, & a few poems inspire students to explore & communicate their own ideas through writing. Part 1 offers 100 writing projects -- most of them, in fact, comprise several possible assignments -- based on quotations from an array of contemporary & historical writers. Part 2 is a thematically arranged collection of 54 readings that are referred to & related to the projects in Part 1. At the end of each reading, provocative quotations from that reading provide possible starting points for the student's own writing. Part 3 is an introduction to the major organizational patterns used in writing. Also traces the progress of an essay from its conception through the final formatting.Ballata, Phyllis is the author of 'Writing from Life Collecting and Connecting' with ISBN 9780756756093 and ISBN 075675609X.