Do you find yourself staring at a blank piece of paper, waiting for the words to pour out? If you find writing difficult, this book is for you. Award-winning novelist Kate Grenville shares her method - the "Six Steps" approach to writing. Whether you're writing a short story, essay, review or report, you can follow the same six steps every time. The steps include: how to get ideas; how to plan your writing; and how to revise. Along the way, Kate provides plenty of examples and hands-on, step-by-step guidance to help get you going - and keep you going. She also includes a quick guide to grammar and an exam kit for last-minute revision. Written in consultation with educational experts, and with a very user-friendly approach, this is an ideal guide for high school students - but it's also full of practical tips to inspire writers of all ages. Many how-to-write books make writing sound hard - this one aims to give you the confidence to know you can do it.
About the Author
Kate Grenville is a prize-winning fiction writer whose novels include Lilian's Story, Joan Makes History and The idea of Perfection. She has an M.A. degree in Creative Writing and has run writing workshops at universities in the U.S.A. and Australia since 1981. She is also the author of the bestselling The Writing Book: A workbook for fiction writers.
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A comprehensive book on writing focussed on the needs of secondary school students. This book is very clearly set out and has sections on Getting Ideas, Choosing, Outlining, Drafting, Revising, Editing and "other useful stuff" - which has a summary of the six steps outlined in the text, including sample beginnings and endings appropriate to different types of texts; a table of types of texts with the subheadings purpose, structure, tense, voice and style; a section explaining some of the most common grammatical problems inexperienced writers make and a re-visiting of the six steps for use in examinations. Each section of this text takes the student through all that needs to be known to strengthen writing skills. It would be invaluable for a highly motivated student to work through on his/her own, would be excellent for a tutor to work through with a student or as a class text for Middle School or Senior School students.
Kate Grenville makes use of the well-known Hamburger Model for writing (pages 70-74), an excellent model developed by William and Mary VanTassel-Baska as a visual representation of the structure of a piece of writing in the early eighties. I was surprised that Grenville did not acknowledge this in her bibliography. Students can find out more about this model and how to use it to strengthen their writing by googling 'Hamburger Model'.
In her table on types of texts on pages 194-195, Grenville states that the purpose of Exposition is "to argue for a point of view", a definition which is at odds with dictionary definitions and which would lead students into a serious misunderstanding of the demands of expository written tasks on examination papers, such as the Victorian GAT. Perhaps the lesson to be learnt here is to always double-check definitions by consulting several dictionaries.
Despite this one lapse, this is a text which offers a wealth of knowledge and expertise and, whether it be worked through thoroughly or dipped into prudently, contains guidelines to help anyone wanting to do so to strenghten their writing skills.
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