The Complete Writer: Writing With Skill: Student Workbook Level One

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

Biography

Susan Wise Bauer is the best-selling author of the Story of the World series for elementary students, author of The Well-Educated Mind, The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World, and the co-author of The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home. She is a faculty member in English at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, where she teaches writing and literature

About The Author:

Susan Wise Bauer is the best-selling author of the Story of the World series for elementary students, author of The Well-Educated Mind, The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World, and the co-author of The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home. She is a faculty member in English at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, where she teaches writing and literature.