Writing With Skill, Level 2: Instructor Text (The Complete Writer)

Writing With Skill, Level 2: Instructor Text (The Complete Writer)

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<p><strong>Time-tested classical techniques--the imitation and analysis of great writers--combined with original composition exercises in history, science, biography, and literature.</strong></p><p>The Student Workbook encourages independent composition, while the Instructor Text contains easy-to-use supporting information for the teacher, rubrics for grading, sample compositions, and dialogue to use while teaching. Together, the Student Workbook and Instructor Text provide a full year of middle-grade writing instruction, preparing students to enter high-level rhetoric.</p><p> </p><ul><li>Reviews Level One skills in narration, biographical sketches, descriptions, and sequences</li><li>Teaches new skills in writing comparisons, drawing contrasts, and tracing cause and effect</li><li>Improves sentence style through prose exercises drawn from Erasmus, Aristotle, and other classical rhetoricians</li><li>Covers three-level outlining, composition planning and structure</li><li>Guides the student through critical essay writing in both fiction and poetry</li><li>Provides practice in research and documentation skills<br />  </li></ul>