Offering educators an approach to teaching writing, this book focuses on engagement and interaction. It covers topics such as students, shifts, and skills for the global age, the writing process and assessment. It also contains three chapters on how to teach grammar within the writing process, collaboration, post writing, and publishing.

The authors of this book have taken their successful "Acts of Teaching into the 21st Century" with this totally revised second edition. Comprehensive, innovative, and practical, this text offers educators a powerful approach to teaching writing. Rather than use repetitive exercises, it focuses on engagement and interaction, so students grapple with words and experiences to make meaning.In this second edition, the writing process and assessment gain a new dimension. Recent research supports its content and strategies while cognitive development and neurological theories, early literacy, inquiry, and writing as a mode of learning across all disciplines and grade levels have been invigorated. The topics include students, shifts, and skills for the global age, the writing process and assessment, three chapters on how to teach grammar within the writing process, collaboration, post writing, and publishing. This book meets the needs of everyone writing or teaching writing.