Writing With Skill, Level 1: Student Workbook (The Complete Writer)

by Susan Wise Bauer

Overview

Traditional principles. Contemporary methods. Unparalleled results.

This groundbreaking new writing series combines time-tested classical techniques—the imitation and analysis of great writers—with original composition exercises in history, science, biography, and literature. Skills Taught:      • One- and two-level outlining      • Writing chronological narratives, biographical sketches, descriptions, and sequences across the curriculum      • Constructing basic literary essays on fiction and poetry      • Researching and documenting source material      • First volume of four that will prepare students for high-level rhetoric and composition Features of the program:      • Writing assignments are modeled on examples from great literature and classic nonfiction      • All source material for assignments is provided—no other books are needed      • This Student Workbook encourages independence by directing all assignments to the student      • Instructor Text (sold separately) provides scripted dialogue to use when the student has difficulty, plus detailed guidance on how to evaluate the student’s work      • First volume of four that will prepare students for high-level rhetoric and composition

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781942968221
Publisher:	The Well-Trained Mind Press
Publication date:	01/16/2012
Series:	The Complete Writer
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	568
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Susan Wise Bauer is an educator and academic who has worked with parents and students for more than twenty years. She taught at the College of William and Mary in Virginia for fifteen years. Her previous best-selling titles for Norton include The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, and the History of the World series