Teaching Writing through Negative Examples.

Grow, Gerald

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Publication Date: 1987

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Teaching Writing through Negative Examples.

Grow, Gerald

Journal of Teaching Writing, v6 n2 p239-44 Fall-Win 1987

Argues for using and creating negative examples to teach writing. Includes ideas for the following areas: (1) the worst grammar; (2) terrible leads; (3) the worst possible article; (4) the awful two-page spread; and (5) rules for breaking the rules. (MS)

Descriptors: Class Activities, Higher Education, Negative Practice, Student Writing Models, Writing Exercises, Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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