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Real Revision
Authors' Strategies to Share with Student Writers
How do you show students that revision is more than a classroom exercise to please the teacher? Take them into the real world of writing for publication. In Real Revision, award-winning author and teacher Kate Messner demystifies the revision process for teachers and students alike and provides tried-and-true revision strategies, field tested by students' favorite authors.
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How do you show students that revision is more than a classroom exercise to please the teacher? Take them into the real world of writing for publication. In Real Revision, award-winning author and teacher Kate Messner demystifies the revision process for teachers and students alike and provides tried-and-true revision strategies, field tested by students' favorite authors. Kate takes us on a behind-the-scenes look at how more than thirty-five authors—including Julie Berry, Watt Key, ...read more
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Real Revision: Where Stories Start to Sing
- Chapter 2: Creating a Revision-Friendly Classroom
- Chapter 3: The Elephant in the Room (And It’s Ticking Away the Minutes!)
- Chapter 4: Back to Brainstorming
- Chapter 5: Real Authors Don’t Plan . . . Or Do They?
- Chapter 6: Big-Picture Revision
- Chapter 7: Returning to Research
- Chapter 8: Magic in the Details
- Chapter 9: Are the People Real?
- Chapter 10: Whose Voice Is It Anyway?
- Chapter 11: The Words We Choose
- Chapter 12: Cut! Cut! Cut!
- Chapter 13: Talking It Out
- Chapter 14: Clean Up: The Copyediting Process
- Chapter 15: What If the Writing Is Already Good?
- Chapter 16: Technology Tools of the Trade
- Chapter 17: The Revision Classroom, Revisited
- Appendix
- Resources
- Index