Babbage's insights apply to teaching any course involving writing—even at the college level. Extreme Writing encourages teachers to bring life to academic writing assignments. He is in tune with cultural and social issues facing students today and advises teachers how to integrate those issues into writing assignments.
Jessica Coleman Hastings, director of regional advancement and part-time instructor, Eastern Kentucky ... Read moreUniversity Babbage helps teachers tap into the interests, experiences, and background knowledge of their students in order to engage them all in practical, authentic writing tasks. He presents a refreshing, real-life approach that will help teachers create higher quality assignments which will lead to improved student writing.
Marty Dixon, middle school/high school language arts specialist, Lexington, Kentucky In this educational text, the longtime history and political science teacher at Henry Clay High School in Lexington guides teachers on taking students’ skill at and eagerness for social writing, such as text messaging, and applying it to more formal writing.
Lexington Herald-Leader
As a college professor who teaches writing-intensive courses, I enthusiastically endorse Extreme Writing. Regardless of your subject field or grade level, Babbage skillfully and successfully provides practical ways to transform mindless writing assignments into meaningful ones. By connecting to students’ real lives, this book will help you nurture the writer in every student, as well as energize your classroom. That is extremely good!
Paul H. Jones, professor of religion, Transylvania University, Kentucky Overall, this book is recommended for teachers and principals searching for a way to make writing assignments more interesting to students by connecting the assignment to students’ interests while maintaining the academic integrity of the assignment....Teachers and principals looking for the answer to the question, “When will I use this writing assignment in real life?” are encouraged to read Extreme Writing: Discovering the Writer in Every Student.
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