Writing Strands: Advanced 2 - Softcover

Dave Marks

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1683440633 ISBN 13: 9781683440635

Publisher: Master Books, 2018

Synopsis

Developed to give students advanced skills, such as recognizing and using persuasive language, writing reports, and developing character in creative pieces.

Students will learn the process of giving others their thoughts in written form through three areas: creative, research and reports, and explanatory. Every exercise will guide them in the development of communication skills they need.

Topics addressed in this one-year course include:

• Recognizing the three points of view writers use
• Describing what has been seen over a period of days and writing a scientific report
• Understanding the organization of an explanatory exposition
• Developing effective characters and conflict in creative writing
• Identifying common literary devices in the Bible
• Understanding why literary devices are used

A suggested schedule is provided, as well as worksheets that are three-hole punched and perforated, and the addition of a reading and literature component helps students look more deeply into the Bible and other books they select.

About this title

About the Author

Dave Marks, the founder of National Writing Institute and the author of the Writing Strands and Reading Strands series of books, graduated from Western Michigan University. He then received a Masters of Arts degree from Central Michigan University and did 45 more hours of graduate work in English at Eastern Michigan University and Michigan State University. Dave retired after 30 years of teaching writing in college, high school, junior high and grade school.

When their son was in the fourth grade, Dave and his wife Lea realized that he was not being given the training they felt he needed and elected to homeschool him in language arts. To prepare him for college writing, they designed a series of lessons, which he completed by the age of twelve. That summer, they enrolled him in freshman English at Lake Michigan College, where he received his first A in college work. He is now a poet and university professor.

Dave and Lea later turned these lessons into the Writing Strands series of books. While Dave never maintained that the series could create poets for other homeschooling parents, he felt that if children worked successfully through the Writing Strands series of books, they would have the skills needed for the challenge of any writing assignment in their undergraduate college work.

Edition details

• Publisher: Master Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1683440633
• ISBN 13: 9781683440635
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336