Writing with Skill, Level 1: Student Workbook

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

Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: Well-Trained Mind Press
Published: 01/16/2012
Pages: 550
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.86lbs
Size: 10.99h x 8.51w x 1.09d
ISBN: 9781933339535

About the Author
Bauer, Susan Wise: - Susan Wise Bauer is a writer, educator, and historian. Her previous books include the Writing With Ease, Writing With Skill, and Story of the World series from Well-Trained Mind Press, as well as The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, 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, all from W. W. W. Norton. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, as well as an M.A. in seventeenth-century literature and a Master of Divinity in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature. For fifteen years, she taught literature and composition at the College of William and Mary.