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(More customer reviews)I just finished my copy of Making Writing Visual & Vivid yesterday, highlighting as I read. What a wealth of writing tips and instruction! For instance, the use of camera angles and movie shots for planning my writing (chapter 9) gave me a new vantage point for creating memorable scenes, while chapter 10's step-by-step unveiling of Finkle's approach to figurative language revealed facets of devising metaphors, similes, and hyperboles that I never before understood. I'm going to use every bit of the gold I found in this book to rewrite the novel I penned several years ago, as well as in my freelance writing, on my website, and of course, with my students. A valuable, versatile resource for teachers, students, and writers of all genres!
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It's all about the pictures. When student writers rely primarily on vague statements, adjectives, and adverbs, their writing doesn't score well on tests, and worse, sounds generic, voiceless, and dull. Creating vivid pictures is the key to good writing. In this book, a teacher/writer/cartoonist provides tools for helping students write about people, places, events, and even abstractions so that their readers can see, hear, smell, touch, and taste their topics. The author demonstrates ways to use figurative language, movie techniques, moment-by-moment narration, hypothetical scenarios, and dialogue to make any kind of writing come alive on the page. For use with Grades 5 & Up.
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