Teaching students how to write more effectively is a goal that English teachers of all levels share. How can you motivate your students to produce their best writing, think critically, and participate more actively in class? How can you conduct workshops in your classroom that create a more dynamic, interactive, student-centered environment? This practical, comprehensive guide to teaching writing offers English teachers a variety of new, classroom-tested instructional activities, workshops, lesson plans, journal entries, teaching strategies, and creative assignments to use in their classrooms, including modified mini-lessons and group discussions that engage students and stimulate critical thinking. Emphasizing the proven benefits of cooperative learning, this book includes step-by-step instructions for special writing workshops on invention strategies, critical reading, thesis statements, draft feedback, narrative writing, debates, outlining, introductions, proofreading and editing, and much more. Additional topics include how to coach students, manage problematic students, attack plagiarism, and deal with student evaluations. Special Features: New workshops and classroom-tested strategies that can be used in secondary and college-level composition courses of all levels Guidance for how to set up, manage, troubleshoot, and facilitate workshops Detailed instructions to conduct workshops on specific topics related to composition, including thesis statements, outlines, introductions, and the like Invention strategies and workshops to stimulate creativity in your classroom Coaching techniques to motivate your students Sensible strategies to deal effectively with problematic students Book jacket.