by Steve Chisnell | 27 October 2015 | School Posts, Writing Strategies
Cover Letters Sometimes I will require you to add a cover letter to your writing, but I’ve found that it’s always a good idea to do so. It reflects well on you as a student and thinker, someone concerned about success in a thoughtful way instead of just for “points.”...
by Steve Chisnell | 13 September 2015 | School Posts, Writing Strategies
I wanted to give out an essay tip that Mr. Chisnell mentioned in the Flatland essay workshop over the summer. He said that it might be a good idea to start your essay by writing the body paragraphs first. Mr. Chisnell went on to explain that this might help in...
by Steve Chisnell | 21 August 2015 | School Posts, Writing Strategies
Michel de Montaigne has been called the inventor of the essay. But what American students call an essay (noun) is originally a French verb, essai. To essai is “to explore,” in particular the workings of the writer’s own thinking. In this...
by Steve Chisnell | 21 August 2015 | School Posts, Writing Strategies
I call it this because King must be doing something right to sell so many novels so often. After King released his excellent nonfiction work, On Writing, I have modified this list based upon his direct advice about what makes writing work. Physicalize the...
by Steve Chisnell | 19 August 2015 | School Posts, Writing Strategies
Imagine the care required in a lifetime of work discovering the beauty in a miniature tree. The bonsai artist visualizes and contemplates, crafts and prunes . . . all the time removing everything which isn’t beautiful. The tree–our writing, our...
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