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Writing Assignments

Teaching students to pay keen attention to detail is challenging. Looking beneath the surface to capture that details often elicits, “This is so boring” response. When my sons pull that line on me, I say, “The word ‘Bore” means I’m either too lazy or not smart enough to make it interesting.” Great soccer players [...]

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Description of a Jelly Belly: Writing Assignment

by Guest Contributor on October 30, 2009

Description is not only used in stories, poetry, and Charles Dickens books. Engineers, chemists, police and detectives, nurses, and even NASA scientists describe in the writing of business. However, in order to write descriptively, attention to detail and the layers of detail need to be developed.
This is a two part assignment. The [...]

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