Real World Writing for Secondary Students: Teaching the College Admission Essay and Other Gate-Openers for Higher Education

by Jessica Singer Early and Meredith Decosta

Book Overview

One of the most important ways to scaffold a successful transition from high school to college is to teach real world, gate-opening writing genres, such as college admission essays. This book describes a writing workshop for ethnically and linguistically diverse high school students, where students receive instruction on specific genre features of the college admission essay. The authors present both the theoretical grounding and the concrete strategies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807753866
• ISBN13: 9780807753866
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"