kitchen table math, the sequel: Latest installment on Kerrigan 'Writing to the Point' project - using CONCRETE words

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Latest installment on Kerrigan 'Writing to the Point' project - using CONCRETE words

Use words that are not abstract; that can be seen, touched, smelled, tasted, felt, weighed, measured, lifted, dropped, moved, etc.
Examples:  child, chair, pencil are concrete; freedom, justice, bravery are not
Read more at Cost of College:  Step 4 of the Kerrigan method of ‘Writing to the Point’ –being CONCRETE

1 comment:

Catherine Johnson said...

Hey Grace & everyone - I'm behind, but I just left a couple of comments on Grace's blogs I've been meaning to post here.

I've discovered all kinds of interesting material on coherent writing: on what it actually IS.

Kerrigan's book anticipates work by "functional linguistics" -- it's amazing.