{"id":5381,"date":"2018-07-03T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2018-07-02T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T19:19:13","slug":"five-reasons-character-ink-writing-books-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/five-reasons-character-ink-writing-books-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Reasons Why Character Ink Writing Books* Work!"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n In my Directed Writing Approach, every detail of every project is laid out for your student. None of my writing projects are \u201cwriting ideas\u201d or \u201cwriting prompts.\u201d Every writing assignment contains step-by-step instructions with much hand-holding along the way. The student is \u201cdirected\u201d in how to write and what to write at all times\u2014from brainstorming to research to outlining to rough draft and finally to revising.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a>Click on the picture above to view free samples of these books!<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Students are taught a wide variety of outlining methods in all of my books<\/strong><\/em>\u2014Key Word Outlines From Given Material, Directed Brainstorming, Persuasive Mapping, The Paragraph House Outline, Split Paper Technique, Sentence-by-Sentence (S-by-S) Outlining from original sources, Q and A Outlines, Five W\u2019s outlines, Scene Outlines for Story Writing, Formal Outlines for research, and much more.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I teach most writing types\/projects by giving the student source material to take notes from first\u2014then having the student branch out and write that same type of writing finding his own source.<\/strong><\/em> It is this combination of \u201cgiven material\u201d first followed by student-found material that gives the student confidence to write that type of paper or story. This method keeps the student from becoming too dependent upon given source material while at the same time helping him learn to find source material (or create his own!) after using given passages first. It is a win-win method.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a>Click on the picture above to view free samples of these books!<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n To ask a student to write a paper using three sources and two quotations without teaching the student the skills to complete those steps is cruel! When a project is being taught in my books, the student is also taught whatever skills are needed to complete the project.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n1. They use my Directed Writing Approach!<\/h2>\n
\nMy Directed Writing Approach takes the best methods I have discovered in order to teach each type of writing<\/strong><\/em>\u2014color-coded research for research-based projects, \u201cTopic of Paragraph\u201d commitment for teaching paragraph breaks, The Three P\u2019s of Persuasion for persuasive writing, the \u201csection-paragraph-sentence\u201d method for longer papers, story writing mapping, Paragraph House for young writers, 1-3-1 essay outlines, my Checklist Challenge for revising, and much more. Each Directed Writing Approach \u201cmethod\u201d is tried and true after fifteen years of my writing one hundred books and over fifty thousand pages!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n2. They contain a combination of projects\u2014those with \u201cgiven material\u201d to write from and those that are completely original (in which student finds material on his own to use as his source).<\/h2>\n
3. The skills that are needed for each writing project are taught within that writing project.<\/h2>\n
\nFor example, if the student is writing a story about an animal escaping, he will be taught words and vocabulary that describe various sizes and types of animals as well as how to use onomatopoeia to describe animal sounds. If a student is told to write a persuasive paper, he will be taught the elements of persuasive writing first. If he is writing a research report in which quotes are to be cited, he will be instructed first in how to use quotations (in an earlier lesson) then in how to cite them for that particular paper. These many \u201chow to\u201d lessons give students the tools to write whatever they are assigned easily and with confidence.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n