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Writing Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques

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Designed to be absorbed and assimilated" on the go", Writing Reminders: Tools, Tips, And Techniques by Jim Burke is a collection of over sixty brief yet useful self-teaching lessons to improving personal and professional writing skills resulting in an increased productively by operating at a higher level of performance, skill, and test-taking abilities. Especially intended for writing students, but also of immense value for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in pursing a passion for writing, Writing Reminders deftly addresses everything from using graphic organizers; to facilitate one's writing; to the formalities to be observed when writing everything from letters to creative fiction. Writing Reminders is a very highly recommended manual that can aptly serve as a classroom text, as well as an independent study instructional reference.

This book was suggested to me while I was pursuing National Board Certification. When I read it, it was one of the best books that I have ever read about the teaching of writing. It gives English Teachers numerous strategies and ideas. Great teachers teach all students. Mr. Burke is a classroom teacher, so he is in the trenches. His book does not give teachers magic formulas. Excellent teachers know that we must teach the students who have in front of us everyday. He relates ideas and strategies that have worked for the children in his classroom. They may work for some teachers and students, and they may not. Stagnation in the classroom is not a good thing. Burke teaches teachers how to learn, to grow, and to reflect.