Wierzbicki, the same teacher as before, what she thought about prolific writing in students; this was his response: "If they don't write often for a variety of purposes, they have no chance of improving." She assigned a large number of different types of writing assignments to enable the class to write in various styles and for different audiences. His style was similar to King's in the way he taught children to be specific. King would ask students to describe common things that most of us take for granted, like braiding hair or the rules of sports. There were days when we would come into class expecting to work on a project and Mrs. Wierzbicki would hand us an unusual writing prompt with a one-hour time limit