As a student, Peter Stillman felt discouraged and alienated from the act of writing. As a teacher, he discovered his own students experiencing the same feelings. Frustrated by the lack of a text that would help students write about their world in a way that encouraged and rewarded them, he wrote Writing Your Way. Stillman believes that there isn't a student who, with the right encouragement, can't write and furthermore who, sooner or later, doesn't...