Adopt a Letter of the Alphabet Roy Peter Clark wrote a book that I absolutely love called Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer. Each chapter is a brief, accessible skill that can be read and implemented instantly. For example, I learned the power of descriptive verbs that show action, not from any of my teachers, but from Clark’s book. It transformed my writing. I taught action verbs to my AP students to help their essays stand out as more descriptive amongst the stacks of essays read each summer by the evaluators. So, when I noticed Roy Peter Clark wrote […]