handbook for writers Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/handbook-for-writers/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Fri, 19 May 2017 22:13:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/doingwhatmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/house-tree-512od.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 handbook for writers Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/handbook-for-writers/ 32 32 89931359 Teaching Grammar: To Diagram or Not to Diagram? https://doingwhatmatters.com/teaching-grammar-to-diagram-or-not-to-diagram/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/teaching-grammar-to-diagram-or-not-to-diagram/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2014 19:08:13 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1583   When I teach essay writing for high school or college exams, I encourage students to beware of using absolutes such as “always” or “never,” because these are rarely true — there are exceptions to almost everything, and those absolutes...

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