Boxes and bullets
Subtitle: personal and persuasive essays
By: Lucy Calkins, Kelly Boland Hohne, Cory Gillette, and Teachers College Reading and Writing Project ; photography by Peter Cunningham
Contributors: Hohne, Kelly Boland; Gillette, Cory; Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (Columbia University)
Publisher: Firsthand, an imprint of Heinemann
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9780325047379
Subjects: Essay; Composition and exercises; Persuasion (Rhetoric); Authorship; English language; Study and teaching (Elementary)
Table of contents: title: Essay structure boot camp; title: Collecting ideas as essayists; title: Writing to learn; title: Using elaboration prompts to grow ideas; title: Mining our writing; title: Boxes and bullets: framing essays; title: Return to boot camp; title: Composing and sorting mini-stories; title: Creating parallelism in lists; title: Organizing for drafting; title: Paragraphing to organize our drafts; title: Developing our own systems; title: Writing introductions and conclusions; title: Revising our work with goals in mind; title: Correcting our writing for clarity by correcting run-on sentences and sentence fragments; title: Moving from personal to persuasive; title: Inquiry into persuasive essay; title: Broader evidence; title: Illuminating the relationship between evidence, reason, and thesis statement; title: Getting ready to put our opinions into the world; title: Hey world, listen up!.