Cohesive Writing: Why Concept Is Not Enough

by Carol Jago

To write cohesively means doing many things at once-wrestling with ideas, balancing form and function, pushing words this way and that, attending to syntax and diction, and employing imagery and metaphor until a coherent message emerges. Though full of promise, student writing typically lacks cohesion. But does the fault lie in students or does the method of teaching writing lack the cohesion it expounds? Carol Jago offers an approach that is the very example of the kind of cohesion she expects from her students' writing. Neither a lock-step lesson plan nor a simple recipe, it is an organized, coherent method that works by offering clear and complete guidelines for the most common types of informational and persuasive writing, narrative writing, and writing about literature. Jago's method centers on her core

Genres: Education, Writing, Nonfiction

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Carol Jago is an American English teacher, author, and past president of the National Council of Teachers of English. In 2016, Jago received the CEL Kent Williamson Exemplary Leadership Award from the National Council of Teachers of English.

Reviews

[Jacob Runyon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great work examining the teaching of writing across the four main genres: informational, expository, narrative, and writing about literature. Took off a star because some things seemed irrelevant to her message. While examining violence in students writing is important, I would have liked to have seen more activities teaching narrative writing than the warnings of teaching narratives. Still great work from a realistic educator who struggles with time and class size. This is not a book by some glorified researcher who has everything figured out. Thank you Carol Jago for some wonderful strategies to add to my belt.

[Mandy · Rating 4 out of 5]

good stuff here.