Writing to the Point Fourth Edition
William J. Kerrigan and Allan A. Metcalf
p. vii
Moreover, the Kerrigan method doesn’t get dull. Each set of sentences X, 1, 2, and 3 is a stimulating intellectual challenge for the instructor as well as the student: a triumph if all the sentences stay on the point, an exercise in revision if they do not. Each theme is a similar exercise in virtuosity. The method is simple, but its application to the actual matter of writing is endlessly challenging, and the visible development of students into sure practitioners is a recurring satisfaction. And Kerrigan’s book itself offers challenges to conventional nostrums about teaching writing, challenges that stimulate thinking anew each time the instructor guides a class through the Kerrigan experience.
He's right.
I've done 10 X-1-2-3 sentence sets, as Kerrigan directs.
Result: I now have a formal thesis statement that captures the whole of Temple's & my new book.
This book is gold.
ISBN numbers and editions
I think there were at least 4 different editions of Writing to the Point, maybe more.
Here are ISBNs for three:
Writing to the Point Fourth Edition
William J. Kerrigan and Allan A. Metcalf
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1987
ISBN-10: 015598313X
ISBN-13: 978-0155983137
Writing to the Point: Six Basic Steps
William J. Kerrigan
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 2d ed edition (1979)
ISBN-10: 0155983113
ISBN-13: 978-0155983113
Writing to the Point: Six Basic Steps
by William J. Kerrigan
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1974)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0155983105
ISBN-13: 978-0155983106
Writing to the Point Fourth Edition Table of Contents
Amazon review Kerrigan & home program
Writing to the Point, first installment
William J. Kerrigan and the sentence
writing and swimming: pp 1 & 2 Kerrigan
To the Instructor
2 comments:
I found myself a used copy (4th edition). Now, time to get busy reading it.
IT IS A GEM!!!!
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