Take Charge of Your Writing: Discovering Writing Through Self-Assessment by Daniel, David, Fauske, Chris, Galeno, Peter, Mael, Debbie (September 22, 2000) Paperback 1

by David Daniel

Offering a unique focus on self-assessment, this essay-level text with readings enables students to become self-aware, confident, and mature writers. Each chapter includes essays, short stories, and poetry accompanied by opening and closing self-assessments, instructional material, individual and collaborative activities, plus discussion and writing activities. A portfolio self-assessment assignment serves as a capstone project.

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First published September 22, 2000

About the author

David Daniel was born in Boston and grew up in Weymouth, MA.

In addition to novels, Daniel has published nearly 100 short stories and 300 articles, book and music reviews. He has worked as a fast food chef, a janitor, a carpenter, a tennis pro, a truck driver, and a "brain slicer" at Harvard Medical School. Currently he teaches at Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School and is an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, where he has served as the Jack Kerouac Visiting Writer in Residence. Daniel lives in Westford, MA with his family. He served as a consultant to a forthcoming documentary on Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Dennis McNally, official historian of the Grateful Dead, declared Daniel's suspense novel White Rabbit one of the best "Sixties' trips" he's taken. Reunion is his most recent novel.