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

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