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	Article Index ~New Article Index~ back to homepage Essay, I Say Stop Trying to Be an "Artist"--Just Write! Twenty Years and Twenty Minutes AP English Blather Measure Your Paragraphs Paragraph Structure: Focus, Unity, and Direction Paragraph Structure: Coherence Don't Let Me Catch You Writing from a Thesaurus! A Partial Defense of the Five-Paragraph Theme as a Model for Student Writing Dictionary Definitions Are SO High School! Fear Not the Introduction Street Writing BSO: The Basic Scratch Outline The "Eureka!" Experience Forget Formulas--Context Is Everything You Can't Teach Writing by the Numbers The Importance of Manuscript Form (This link will take you to my "Teacher, Teacher" website.) Active Voice vs. Passive Voice What Do You Want Your Essay to DO to Your Reader--and WHY? The Mystery Of The Missing Marks: Some Misconceptions about the Grading of English Essays Guest article by Dr. Nils Clausson, of the University of Regina in Canada (This link will take you to my "Teacher, Teacher" website.) Don't get Emotionally Attached to Your Own Opinion (This link will take you to my "Teacher, Teacher" website.) Don't Get Emotionally Attached to Your Own Opinion: Part II (This link will take you to my "Teacher, Teacher" website.) Beads!: Metaphors for Teaching Paragraph Unity and Coherence Your Scaffolding Is Showing! What to Write?: Using Aristotle's "Topics of Invention" as a Heuristic Necessary Order GRADING STANDARDS: WHAT IS "GOOD WRITING"? (This article has several parts. They can all be accessed directly from Part 1, or you can use the separate links on this index.) 1. Grading Standards: What Is "Good" Writing? 2. Grading Standards: Adherence to Textual Conventions 3. Grading Standards: Correctness 4. Grading Standards: Style 5. Grading Standards: Voice 6. Grading Standards: Purpose 7. Grading Standards: Development 8. Grading Standards: Organization