Sentence examples for school writing from inspiring English sources

But Chekhov put himself through medical school writing short stories".

In school, writing and art were perfect areas for a shy girl to shine.

At this school, writing even has its own Vince Lombardi, a taskmaster of a teacher named Crawford (Mr. Abraham).

I lost a school writing competition because, as Miss Morris told me sadly, "You used a cliché, Susan.

Do we worry about "page time" if a kid spends hours after school writing a story? he asks.

Not until graduate school, writing a long paper on American press coverage of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, did I hit that academic sweet spot.

Firishta, now 6, with deep brown eyes and brown hair in bangs, lay on the floor with a pencil and pad of paper, practicing what she is learning in school -- writing letters and numbers.

Ann Holcomb turns a Warholesque photographic eye on a sheet of Marilyn Monroe's personal stationery, which resembles grade-school writing paper.

In an effort to respond to colleges' pleas for better writers -- and bolster the teaching of high-school writing -- the College Board will add a writing sample into the SAT in 2005.

A third presenter, Julius Diaz Panoriñgan, described a game called zombie tag that he uses to teach science at 826LA, a nonprofit that offers after-school writing and tutoring lessons in Los Angeles, California.

These portals lead to local chapters of 826, a national network of after-school writing and tutoring centers.