Cohesive Writing: Jago Chapter 1

I really enjoy the set up in this book. In comparison to Christensen though, I would have to agree with Christensen a little more on how she has her own way of writing and communicating her ideas. It was interesting to have the assignment to find 3 resources and put them on our wiki spaces, because almost all of the really good websites i found had to do with jump starting your paper. Jago explains in her chapter the difficulties students have with the beginning of a paper. Starting a paper is the hardest point in writing, actually for any type of writing such as informative, essay, persuasive, and even creative writing. Jago gave ideas for prompts and different strategies to jump start a students creativity for their introductions. She came up with the idea to start the class with a free write proceeded by small group discussions. This would help so many students to receive peer ideas and further brainstorming.
Jago also explained a certain kind of paper writing to help students start writing. This is called the question paper. A question paper starts with a question and then the rest of the paper is dedicated to answering the question. This is a good method in the beginning... but as the year progresses, i believe they need to learn the correct structures of writing.