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Articles in January, 2004 issue of Writing!

• The new Writing! Magazine advisory board: five of America's most distinguished writers for young adults will help Writing! help you.(Write Time)
• Writing about friends: are you looking for something to write about? Why not look at those people you feel close to--your friends?(Focus: the kids on TV, the people in your heart)
  by Lenhoff, Alan
• Building the perfect friend: think about the qualities you would seek in an ideal friend, and turn your thoughts into a definition paragraph.(Writer's Portfolio)
  by Langer, A.J.
• Writing a definition paragraph.(Portfolio Activity)
  by Davis, Kate
• Like brothers ... until things changed: in That Was Then, This Is Now, S.E. Hinton explores a complex relationship.(Author's Craft)
  by Paul, Daniel
• Character sketches: can you capture a friend, acquaintance--or even a stranger--in a web of words?(Putting People on Paper)
  by Orr, Tamra
• Power punctuation: the hyphen and the dash: use these two punctuation marks to energize your writing.(Troubleshooters)
  by Jenkins, Diana R.
• A friendship that might have been.(Special Feature)
  by Lenhoff, Alan
• Gobbledygook on purpose?(Student Writing)
• Parting friends will never find another "first": newspaper columnist Eric Zorn captures perfectly the unique quality of a child's first friendship.(Reading-Writing Link)
  by Zorn, Eric