Extreme Writing

Keen J. Babbage has twenty-five years of experience as a teacher and administrator in middle school, high school, college, and graduate school. He is the author of author of numerous books including 911: The School Administrator's Guide to Crisis Management (1996), Extreme Teaching (2002), Results-Driven Teaching: Teach So Well That Every Student Learns (2006), What Only Teachers Know About Education (2008), and Extreme Economics, Second Edition: .

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 The Idea of WritingChapter 3 Students Love to Write; Students Hate to WriteChapter 4 Real WritingChapter 5 Academically Valid School Writing That Fascinates StudentsChapter 6 Writing across the Curriculum; Writing within the CurriculumChapter 7 What Can Go Wrong and What to Do about ThatChapter 8 It Is Not the Best Writing Until It Has Been RevisedChapter 9 Writing as LiberationChapter 10 Epilogue

Babbage's insights apply to teaching any course involving writing—even at the college level. Extreme Writing encourages teachers to bring life to academic writing assignments. He is in tune with cultural and social issues facing students today and advises teachers how to integrate those issues into writing assignments.