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…