Writing With Skill combines time-tested classical techniques - the imitation and analysis of great writers - with innovative contemporary insights. Models from great literature provide the student with inspiration, while keeping step-by-step instructions explicitly teach the skills other writing programs merely assign without explanation. Original writing assignments in history, science, biography and literature expand the student's intellectual horizons.

The second level in a writing series that prepares students for high-level composition and rhetoric. Clear, detailed instructions will help you guide even reluctant writers into mastery of the most essential writing skills. Designed to be used along with Writing With Skill, Level 2 Student Workbook.

Writing With Skill Level 2 Instructor Text Sample