Issue 08: Authentic, Adaptable Research Writing

Combine reading + writing instruction in a research-writing unit that actually makes sense.

Writers research in every single genre and in every piece they write.

If research means “to seek knowledge”, then I might argue that the very act of writing is, itself, research.

But still.

• Poets seek out sensory details to craft just-right images.

• Memoirists research their own memories — looking at photographs, digging through letters and diaries, talk…