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Including FAT In Your Essays:

Figurative Language, Appositive Phrases, and Transitions

(Title inspired by Debbie Self, Little Axe Middle School)

This workshop will provide detailed lessons for teachers to empower student writers with concrete tools to help them improve word choice and voice in their writing. Through these lessons, students will learn how to harness proven writing techniques discovered in mentor texts during the drafting and revision stages of the writing process.

Michelle Waters

Midwest City Middle School

University of Oklahoma

ILAC English Education

michelleboydwaters@ou.edu

Oklahoma Writing Project

University of Oklahoma

338 Cade Center Drive

Room 190

Norman, OK 73019

For further Information Contact:

Attn: Audra Plummer

Co-Director of Inservice

(405)401-1348

owpcodirector@yahoo.com

Oklahoma Writing project

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