Background
Willis, Meredith Sue was born on May 31, 1946 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States. Daughter of Glenn Ernest and Lucille Meredith Willis.
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If you or your students dread the process of revision, this book will prove transformative. Deep Revision covers topics such as revision as a natural process, learning to revise by editing other people's writing, changing media to revise, and revising nonfiction with fiction techniques. Meredith Sue Willis offers a wide array of specific revision exercises for fiction and nonfiction, and numerous examples of student writing are provided.
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(Smart, sassy, and eleven years old, Billie Lee lives with...)
Smart, sassy, and eleven years old, Billie Lee lives with her eccentric, multi-racial family in New Jersey. Then Billie's white cousin, Celia, shows up and changes everything. A sleepover at Celia's fancy suburban home releases a food of questions. How can Billie be Black but also White? How can she convince her best friend, Eutreece, that Billie hasn't betrayed their friendship? And when these kids get thrown together at a neighborhood barbecue, how can Billie and her friends accept one another long enough to solve the mystery of a neighbor named Neighbor, who has hidden something strange down by the canal? The answers to these questions challenge Billie far more than she ever thought possible.
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(On a distant world where interplanetary colonists have st...)
On a distant world where interplanetary colonists have struggled for generations to survive, a young woman named Espera travels to the fabled City Built of Starships on a quest that may determine the fate of the human species.
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Willis treats the writing of fiction as a natural process that anyone can do with pleasure. The book includes over 400 helpful writing assignments for all age levels. In addition, teachers will appreciate the appendixes on writing ideas according to age level, other books on writing, and magazines that publish student writing. "A terrific resource for the classroom as well as the novice writer."-Harvard Educational Review.
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By the time the colonists landed on the planet with two suns, they had already divided into the rulers and the ruled. When the new world failed to provide sufficient food, this division erupted into civil war. Some people fled to the desert, others stayed on the coast and built a city from the hulks of the starships. Having learned from her mother how to make native plants edible and how to train the great flying beasts called yaegers, Espera, the desert girl, takes on a quest from her father and goes to the city on a quest.
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Willis, Meredith Sue was born on May 31, 1946 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States. Daughter of Glenn Ernest and Lucille Meredith Willis.
Bachelor, Barnard College, New York City, 1969. Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, New York City, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), West Virginia University, 2004.
Writing consultant Teachers and Writers Collaborative, New York City, since 1972. Special lecturer New York University, since 1983.
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President Ethical Culture Society Essex County New Jersey, 1996-1998. Co-vice chair Community Coalition on Race, South Orange-Maplewood, New Jersey, 1997-2000, 2003, since 2006. Chair South Orange Maplewood Community Coalition on Race, 2004-2006.
Married Andrew Bruce Weinberger, May 9, 1982. 1 child, Joel.