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		<title>Essay Preview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My essay, called &#8220;The Witch Trick&#8221;, was published in The Pressures of Teaching by Kaplan. If you go to Amazon&#8217;s page for the book and click on the &#8220;Click to Look Inside&#8221; button above the graphic of the cover, you can read the first several pages of the essay. Take a look! And if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timclifford.com/blog/?p=53</link>
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		<title>Wikis Work!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One writing tool I&#8217;ve used quite succesfully this year is the wiki. If you&#8217;re not familiar with wikis, they are web sites that are created collaboratively by members (think Wikipedia). The great advantage of wikis is that they allow anyone to edit the pages. As a teacher, you can create a wiki and assign a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timclifford.com/blog/?p=44</link>
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		<title>Essay on Teaching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a new essay on teaching coming out in a book by Kaplan called &#8220;The Pressures of Teaching&#8221;. The book contains the viewpoints of a number of teacher/writers who explore ways to cope with the increased pressures of teaching in today&#8217;s schools. It&#8217;s a great book, and anyone interested can pre-order it on Amazon.]]></description>
		<link>http://timclifford.com/blog/?p=39</link>
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		<title>KidLit Contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an interesting contest brewing for authors of middle grade and young adult novels. Click here for all the details. Kidlit Contest]]></description>
		<link>http://timclifford.com/blog/?p=38</link>
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		<title>New Publications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My three new graphic novels are out! Go to the main page, www.timclifford.com, if you&#8217;d like to see them. There&#8217;s a new Graphic Novels page where you can see some of the illustrations.]]></description>
		<link>http://timclifford.com/blog/?p=37</link>
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		<title>Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started using Facebook, which is kind of cool, even if it is an enormous time sink. If you&#8217;re a teacher or writer and want to add me, feel free. Graphic novel enthusiasts can add me as well. Just click here. If you&#8217;re one of my students, I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;m going to have to say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timclifford.com/blog/?p=34</link>
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		<title>Author Studies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If anyone has interesting experiences in doing author studies, I&#8217;d love to hear. I&#8217;m working on my next book, which will look at a new type of author study.]]></description>
		<link>http://timclifford.com/blog/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Graphic Novels and Model Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written three graphic novels that will be published this August. In a strange way, this led to a Graphic Novel unit on Heroes at my school. It&#8217;s been a truly worthwhile venture so far. My students are learning a lot about the editing and revision processes. There&#8217;s nothing&#8211;and I mean nothing&#8211;like modeling your own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timclifford.com/blog/?p=21</link>
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		<title>Rubrics Made Easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Generally, I like to write my own writing rubrics to reflect the work recently done in class. However, this can be quite time consuming. That&#8217;s why I included rubrics for each of the five major writing pieces in my book The Middle School Writing Toolkit, and for opinion and persuasive papers in Crafting Opinion and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timclifford.com/blog/?p=18</link>
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		<title>Latest Projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems as if there is always a new project on the horizon, which is something no writer should ever complain about. I have three graphic novels coming out this year which I am very excited about. I&#8217;m also working on a rewrite of a YA novel I wrote, which came close to getting agented [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timclifford.com/blog/?p=13</link>
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