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Being a Good Writer: Writing tips and strategies from Lucy Calkins

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What makes a good writer? How do you become a good writer? Lucy Calkins - author of the Units of Study for Reading and Writing series - offers words of wisdom on how to approach writing tasks to produce the best compositions possible. She discusses revising writing, reading your own writing, paying attention to detail, and other aspects of being a good writer. "Read your writing as if it were gold," says Lucy.

For more information from Lucy Calkins on being an good writer, visit:
http://www.heinemann.com

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  • awsome video - it made me laugh at points and gave me some real good ideas - im fifteen and i want to be a writer - thnx so much for the advise xD x

  • This video was so inspiring, it left me speechless. I can barely say a word, I'm suprised anything's coming out right now. Thank you for posting this video, and giving these helpful hints to people like us, like me, who need them.

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  • She looks like John Malkovich

  • Do you want to be a good writer? Read a lot and write a lot. Simple is that.

  • wow i'm speachless your AMAZING! I have wanted to be a singer for as long as I could remember. A few months ago I nearly got ran over by a car. I know it's prety silly, but I got inspired to write a short story from that experince. I had no writting experince what so ever, but I didnt care. I only wanted to write something 1 page long, but it ended up being 3. I showed it to my dad, and he said I was really good for a inexperinced 12 year old. I now am going to be writing a novel. :D

  • hahahahaha ur sucha syko :) lol jk

  • im 11 and i love writing

  • that birthday story brought tears to my eyes. my god i love writing

  • couldn't found a inspiration today, found this video, I was speechless, in shock, lost my inspiration and stop writing, after recup. decide to rewrite my book on different way, 2 years of work gone, thanks to you, you gave me a pinch o how to approach my writing not me but my audience and the world, thanks.

  • this is fabulous - am glad to have found this and THANK YOU!!

  • One of the most inspiring videos on writing I've ever viewed. Lucy is speaking to young students, but what she shares is what adult writers need to hear. Some of the students' writing brought tears to my eyes, especially Marasal's piece. "Read your writing like it's gold."

  • Simply drive me positively.

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