Comprehensive Composition

“While students are digging up facts on an ancient civilization, don't stop to give them a textbook writing assignment. Instead, chose the type of writing that you want them to learn, and decide on a topic that relates to what they have been studying. While they are busy thinking about what to write, you are showing them how. Now skills are a helpful tool, not a worksheet for a completed grade.” Describes what a composition is in terms of: paragraph, essay, descriptive, persuasive, narrative and expository writing, biographies, reports and research papers, short story, letters, plus mechanics of writing. Grades K - 12 revised 1998