Be a Better Writer: Power Tools for Young Writers!: Essential Tips, Exercises and Techniques for Aspiring Writers [Paperback]

Steve Peha (Author), Margot Carmichael Lester (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 270 pages
• Publisher: Leverage Factory (November 20, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977300013
• ISBN-13: 978-0977300013
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,280,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for the classroom, May 29, 2007

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C. A. Reed "suzanne41e" (Liberty, Missouri United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Be a Better Writer: Power Tools for Young Writers!: Essential Tips, Exercises and Techniques for Aspiring Writers (Paperback)

This book, along with its companion are a teacher's God send! The book is written to the reader as a writer - one writer to another. My students loved the way the book presented writing in such a matter of fact manner and not a formularic lock step blah, blah, blah color code blah, blah, blah. It's written by real writers to real students of writing. The strategies are incredible for creating thinkers of writing! My students are have open and honest dialogues about their writing without focusing so much on mechanics unless the mechanics of way something is written effects the way it is understood.

If you can't get this for your students, get it for yourself!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Be a Better Writer - Yes Please!, November 30, 2006

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J. Bush (Bend, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Be a Better Writer: Power Tools for Young Writers!: Essential Tips, Exercises and Techniques for Aspiring Writers (Paperback)

This is the second book in the "Better Writer" series from Leverage Factory. Designed for younger writers, this comprehensive writing improvement guide is helpful for writers of all ages. Features interview with professional writers, and dozens of Tips, Activities and Exercises to get your writing headed in a better direction.

These books are NOT your grandfathers writing books. They introduce helpful and effective methods to critique and improve every area of your writing.