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:	06/29/2015
Series:	Complete Writer
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	550
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&Mary in Virginia for fifteen years. Her previous best-selling titles for Norton include The Well-Trained Mind, The Well-Educated Mind, The Story of Western Science, and the History of the World series.