Tag: Golden Line
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What are you working on? Discussion in the Writing Classroom
In the writing classrooms where I teach, we often sit in a circle and do a “quick share” to begin class where everyone offers a brief comment. Examples of what students might say include a golden line from a reading, a question for our fellow writers, or an observation about a project in progress they…
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“I might be a dork, but I’m a resourceful dork.” –from Junot Diaz’s “Wildwood”
Here’s a strategy for writers or anyone who talks: communicate in memorable phrases. As sensible and obvious of a strategy as this might seem, it wasn’t something that occurred to me until the past year or two, that I ought to look for chances to write what some people might call a “golden line,”…
Bill Torgerson 