Colleen O Potocki

Think It, Build It Colleen O Potocki

This creative middle grades workbook presents essay writing as both practical communication and art form-and, therefore, presents an architectural approach to the writing process where purposeful thought and imagination are primary. A STEM and Maker mentality applied to writing. An excellent choice for a stand-alone introduction to essay writing. Architecture is often defined as "the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings" or "the complex or carefully designed structure of something." The purpose of this text is to introduce and to consider the standard 5-part essay as a construction, exploring its complexity and exercising the limitless intellectual, individual, and creative possibility that comes from approaching essay structure with an architectural eye and mindset. Engaging examples and writing exercises. Supplemental readings from Ian McEwan's young adult book The Daydreamer are referenced and encouraged to further nurture artful, original, and ambitious thinking and writing.