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This blog will feature the writing of the wonderful high school students who took part in a 5-week course entitled Improving Your Grammar Through Writing, from October 18 through November 15. Some of the stories were generated by exercises that included words collected from the environment, given prompts and word throws. Word throws, I believe, are unique to New York University's School of Professional Studies. I learned this writing technique when I was a student here. The exercise requires that once the students begin writing, the instructor will "throw" the students a word from a book, magazine, or newspaper to incorporate into their writing. Every 30 seconds the instructor says a different word the students must use.  The results are unique and clever stories where the only commonality is the thrown words incorporated into their pieces.