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The Journey Is Everything: Teaching Essays That Students Want to Write for People Who Want to Read Them

The Journey Is Everything: Teaching Essays That Students Want to Write for People Who Want to Read Them

Bomer, Katherine

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ISBN10: 0325061580
ISBN13: 9780325061580
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Published: Apr 22 2016
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 7.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

In the electric, pulsating world around us, the essay lives a life of abandon, posing questions, speaking truths, fulfilling a need humans have to know what other humans think and wonder so we can feel less alone.
--Katherine Bomer

Sadly, many students only know essay as a 5-paragraph, tightly structured writing assignment that must check all the boxes of a standardized formula. How did essays in school get so far away from essays in the world? Katherine makes a powerful case for teaching the essay as a way to restore writing to think--that it is in fact necessary for students' success in college and career. Essay helps students write flexibly, fluently, and with emboldened voices, she writes in The Journey Is Everything, qualities they can translate into any assigned writing task in school or in life. She argues that the close reading of essays fulfills the recommendations of state and national standards, while practice in essay writing leads to better academic and test writing. More importantly, Essay gives its author the space, time, and freedom to think about and make sense of things, take a journey of discovery, and speak her mind, without boundaries.

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