Writing From Start To Finish and the Story Workshop approaches... develop strong writing. This, then, becomes a strong incentive for correct usage. In fact, linking oral activities closely to the writing reduces dramatically the number of syntactical errors." -- Geraldine Martin, Calumet College

Writing From Start To Finish sets out the clearest and most comprehensive composition theory that I'm aware of today, powerfully developing the connections among thinking, speaking, reading, writing, and listening. -- Beverlye Brown, Maplewood Community College

Writing from Start to Finish manages what the vast array of writing texts do not, namely, to be accessible, challenging, and, above all, eminently useful for writers of all levels of development and from many different backgrounds. Direct, readable, this text blends Story Workshop theory with a multitude of specific suggestions, strategies, and exercises that respond effectively to the practical needs of creative writing as well as nonfiction prose forms classes. Particularly impressive is Schultz's focus upon drawing out and developing capacities and skills that virtually all of us possess to some degree: speaking/writing connections of voice, thinking/seeing-in-the-mind, gesture, sense for basic form, narrative movement, and point of view. In combination with classroom approaches that emphasize the dynamic use of the immediate audience, the Story Workshop approach promotes a democracy of imagination, subject matter, and voice; and Writing From Start to Finish should be a staple for teachers and writers seeking energetic, clear writing and improved critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. -- Randall Albers, Chair, Fiction Writing Department, Columbia College Chicago.