Writing short statements:

 

In “Short statements in fifty words or less, ” Amy Benjamin presents models for writing statements with high information density. This chapter provides details for how to make writer efficient, concise and direct. Benjamin beautifully focuses on the elements to extract profound and concise brief identification and the contrast statements. Providing the students with a list of key action words and connectors not only helps them to establish the basics but also frees them to discuss the issue on a more elevated level. Short statements are very challenging for the students. Often it is very difficult for the writers to identify the unnecessary words that can be removed. Encouraging the students to summarize and write short statements leads to precision and conciseness in future writing as well as it develops their focus on succinct writing.

Teaching the students with examples is really a good start. In our daily lives, if we are not given the format and key words, we come up with lot of unnecessary information.  Short statements are a way to condense information to provide deeper and richer knowledge.

This chapter provides lot of information that can be implemented in the classroom. This chapter not only provides the key action words but also provides the words that are not suitable for writing. I find it really interesting. Since in a real time classroom environment, we deal with students' different learning styles and abilities and for some students it is easier to write when there is a list that shouldn't be used in their writing.