Writing Resources | World Literate

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A list of writing resources for students and teachers of writing complied by Mia Zamora, a professor at Kean University in New Jersey. Most of the references are for high school and older writers.

 

Additional parts of this site relate to Literary Criticism, Multimedia, Primary Texts, and World Culture. Numerous links are provided along with brief description of each. World Literate provides access to an impressive list of aids and supports. -JL

 

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Writing Tips by Henry Miller, Elmore Leonard, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman & George Orwell

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Here’s one way to become a better writer. Listen to the advice of writers who earn their daily bread with their pens. During the past week, lists of writing commandments by Henry Miller, Elmore Leonard (above) and William Safire have buzzed around Twitter. (Find our Twitter stream here.) So we decided to collect them and add tips from a few other veterans — namely, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, and Neil Gaiman. Here we go:
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Why did the Chickenman cross the road? – Create your own 2012 Olympics E-book

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Get involved in an interactive story created by students on the theme of the Olympics. Using the core values of the Olympics students can write interactive stories.
Via chickensaltash.edublogs.org
This is an amazing opportunity to collaborate with student across the globe. It was posted today and already there are students from the UK, Sweden and Australia(us!). Looks very interesting.

iPad as a writing machine

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The iPad can be used very easily as a writing machine. The lack of a physical keyboard can be a bit annoying when writing long pieces (which may go some way to explaining the brevity of my blog posts!) but of course one can be purchased for a relatively small price.
This post on the ZD Net site outlines just how one writer managed to use the iPad as a useful writing implement. It is certainly better than lugging a typewriter around.
I use it for editing student work and for blogging and communicating with others but still have been returning to my MacBook Pro when longer pieces, like my Masters papers, are due. This may well be a habit so next time I will try using the iPad and see if it is really easier. As more schools move to using iPads and other tablets the issue of writing, not to even discuss handwriting, will become an important one that may determine the success of the device.
One alternative used by some schools precisely because of doubts about the capacity for th tablet to be used for extended periods of writing, is the net book. My biggest issue with these, despite their obvious lightness and easy portability, is their processing power and start up time. They often only come with 1GB of RAM, which clearly limits their potential to multitask as well as perform many of the jobs that a tablet can do so easily.

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Keeping it Real

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Digital Literacy- Keeping it Real. Kate Pullinger. Thought provoking discussion with the auhorbof several books as well as the fabulous digital text ‘Inanimate Alice’. Kate really is doing groundbreaking work to inspire young readers and writers to use all of the tools at their disposal. And there are very many. She is passionate about multimodal texts and we shared ideas around the room about what we could do and what others had done. This type of session is always inspiring because you get a feel for the creativity that is going on in classrooms around the world.