Forrester teaches Jamal how to get started on his writing. He states that the first draft should come from your heart, so you should not be thinking about what you are writing. After the first draft, you start using your head to rewrite the subsequent drafts.

In an effort to use many sophisticated words, Joey uses a thesaurus on every word in his adoption recommendation letter for Chandler and Monica. The results are both hilarious and hard to understand.

Ms. Gruwell teaches her students to use writing as an outlet for self expression and storytelling.

Ms. Gruwell creates a final project for her students. She encouraged them the put their diaries into a book just like Anne Frank.

Nick teaches his son how to think about the writing prompt that his teacher assigned him. He encourages his son to think beyond the parameters that his teacher set for the prompt and reinforces the idea that you are never wrong if you are able to argue correctly.