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Our Price: $8.95
Product Details
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| Shipping Weight: |
0.50 |
| Author(s): |
Sue Young |
| Vendor: |
SCHOLASTIC |
| Publisher: |
Scholastic Reference |
| Published: |
01 April, 1999 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| ISBN: |
0590254243 |
| Store Code: |
3366 |
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Genre: Language Arts - Composition and Creative Writing; Study and teaching (Elementary); Juvenile Nonfiction; Creative writing (Elementary e; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction; Study and teaching (Elementary; Children: Grades 3-4; Language Arts - General; Juvenile literature; Juvenile Nonfiction / Reference / General; Composition and exercises; Creative writing (Elementary education); English language;
Average Review: 5 stars
Review: Organized around the four Ps--Planning, Producing, Polishing, and Presenting : The planning section covers word clusters, venn diagrams, and outlines. The producing section covers building paragraphs, dialogue, clarity, passive voice, headings, audience, citing sources, footnotes, generalizations, and an interesting "use of poet's tools" section. The poet's tools include metaphors, similes, imagery, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification, and rhyming patterns. I especially appreciated the footnotes part of this section as it was very thorough and is usually not covered in pre-college style books. The end of the producing section covers writing plays and scripts, which was interesting to me. The polishing section covers common grammar mistakes, punctuation, verb tenses, spelling mistakes, and word misuse. I found this section very well-done and thorough. The presenting section covers uniform formatting, spacing, pagination, tables, headings, sections, and an extremely thorough coverage of bibliographies and citations. This is one of the Scholastic writing guides, which are very concise, take up little shelf space, but are presented clearly and in an easy-to-read manner suitable for children and adults.
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