You Have to Write (edition 2002)

This book of poetry will work as a beginning of a writing assignment whether poetry and story writing. I believe this book was written to give inspiration to young writers. ( )

You Have To Write is a book of poems written by Janet S. Wong. The poems explain the different aspects of writing. It explains how people get inspiration from things around them. They also take personal experiences that can make a great story. This book of poems perfectly tells what everyone is thinking when writing something. ( )

A good book to introduce writing assignments to new writers, of any age. The book has some good ideas for topics to write about. This could be used in a creative writing class or general journal writing. ( )

Janet Wong teachers children the value of writing and finding their voice. She talks about how writing express the person within us all. She teaches kids that anyone write cause we all have a story, all of our stories and different and only we can write the story we are living. ( )

The teacher has assigned an assignment for the students to write anything. She talks about how you tart off by thinking of ideas and looking around at your surroundings for inspiration. The author suggest that the students should write down all their thoughts and begin writing a first draft. If they are not happy with this draft or need a break, the students should stop and restart on a clean sheet of paper. The author also gives the students different ideas on what they can write about. WHen they turn in the final draft, they are to take the sentences they like and weave everything together. You have to write, so it is important to be good at it. ( )