Dissatisfied with the writing your students are producing?
Does it lack life and color?
Copywriting
Online Resources for improving English skills.
Each student will need a sheet of paper and something to write with. Ask students to close their eyes and visualize the color red. Wait just a few seconds.
Copy is no longer quote-transition, transition-quote copy written in third person.
No Paper Bag Zone
The teaser attracts by arousing curiosity in the reader. This wordplay can be challenging and fun.
Do not settle for the first draft. The best stories evolve from the search for the right angle and fearless rewriting. The article, Swapping Fool’s Gold for Real Gold , in the Spring 2004 issue of Idea File, Volume 14, issue 3, discussed getting writers to find the most interesting aspect of the story they are covering – known as the nugget. It’s the nugget that makes the story about the same topic unique from year to year.
List of stock questions for writers after
they have presented their first draft
Before you begin to write, read over your interview notes and gather related terms and important information. Listing and clustering start the juices flowing; they put you in the writing mode.
I was about to give up when I remembered meeting Samuel Beckett at the NSPA convention last year in Seattle. I heard Beckett say that he had actually been a journalism teacher for several years and was presenting a session at the convention on how teaching yearbook had sparked his imagination for the tragicomedy, “Waiting for Godot.” In his session, he asked us to read selected scenes from the play to see the close connection. In fact, he said, although most people think he is writing about the angst of the 20th century, many of the scenes in the play are really about his frustration as a yearbook teacher trying to improve the academics section.
