In the textbook assigned by Youngstown State University for ENGL 1550: Writing 1, entitled, Language Awareness: Readings for College Writers, Stephen King addresses college students about the importance of reading well in order to write well. A writer's work is examined as an ongoing conversation, past and present, with other writers. I feel a great responsibility to inspire and guide my students in their reading selections, comprehension and consequently their own creative and intellectual ponderings evoked by such choices. The writing students at Champion High School, like other writing students enrolled in similar programs, write for the most part first-person narrative, but, like most other student writers, have little sense of how the
