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Timed Writing

Timed Writing

When my children were younger, I had them do something that I called timed writing. I’m not sure what I can say about it to recommend it except to say generically — It helped them. They started out at the first of the school year, sort of freezing or taking too long at the process […]

Parallelism in Writing

I first wrote this in 2003 at my forum, but now that it is gone, I need to republish for my purposes. I am writing a review of Jensen’s Format Writing and in my syllabus, I had a link to the now gone forum topic. I will link that to this blog entry in […]