Cohesive Writing: Why Concept Is Not Enough

by G. Kylene Beers and Carol Jago

Book Overview

To write cohesively means doing many things at once-wrestling with ideas, balancing form and function, pushing words this way and that, attending to syntax and diction, and employing imagery and metaphor until a coherent message emerges. Though full of promise, student writing typically lacks cohesion. But does the fault lie in students or does the method of teaching writing lack the cohesion it expounds? Carol Jago offers an approach that is the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867095318
• ISBN13: 9780867095319
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12