Sentence examples for writing teachers from inspiring English sources

Writing teachers may therefore cultivate their own legends.

Writing teachers everywhere tell their students that context is everything.

(Writing teachers should assign students to contribute reviews to Yelp; the students would get instant publication and feedback).

We are always trying to decipher gestures, or as writing teachers say, how to show rather than tell".

Another difficulty faced by writing teachers is, paradoxically, the lack of interest many students show in reading.

Spoken language is repetitive, fragmentary, contradictory, limited in vocabulary, loaded down with space holders ("like," "um," "you know") — all the things writing teachers tell students not to do.

Style is something editors--and writing teachers--are not qualified to critique; to critique someone's style requires you to be at least at the same level of accomplishment as the writer in question; but voice anyone can critique.

"Write about what you know," the creative-writing teachers advise, hoping to avoid twenty-five stories about robots in love on Mars.

Obeying the rule laid down by beginning creative-writing teachers the world over, Mr. Bowen and Mr. Bell decide to write what they know.

This was in the early seventies, an era of supposedly reckless permissiveness, and yet I addressed my creative-writing teachers as "Mr".

My student, although having published several other genre works, and despite a number of ringing endorsements from his eminent creative-writing teachers, has been unable to find a publisher for this, his first serious novel.