Advanced Communication Series
This 3-DVD set is primarily for upper high school and college-level students and teachers, but is also applicable for professionals who wish to hone their communication and information processing skills. These disks teach pupils persuasive writing and speaking skills, advanced note taking and powerful tips for planning and writing a college level paper. Includes a complementary Advanced Communication Series Student book with purchase.
$77.00 CAD
High School Essay Intensive
This seminar presents tools and tips for tackling the timed opinion-based essay as currently included in the SAT exam, and introduces strategies for writing a well-crafted personal essay for a college application. A CD-ROM containing the .pdf files for both seminar handouts, and several bonus files (text, mp3, and powerpoint) dealing with other aspects of SAT preparation is included.
In Part One, students write two entire 25-minute essays (a “before” and “after”), review grading criteria from The College Board, complete several types of outlines, and learn how to continue practicing for the test.
Part Two discusses typical questions for college and university application “personal” essays, helps students determine structure based on length, and shows a concrete process for developing ideas. Participants write out one complete “TRIAC” paragraph, and work on a full outline for a real personal essay.
The CD-ROM contains the .pdf files for both seminar handouts, and several bonus files (text, .mp3, and powerpoint) dealing with other aspects of SAT preparation. This class is also available live.
$88.00 CAD
Advanced Writing
How to Write Excellent Essays Reference Guide
with Structure and Style - in 7 Easy Steps
This compact, yet powerful reference guide by Dr. Webster leads upper-level high school and college students through the seven steps of the A.D.V.A.N.C.E. system of Essay-Writing. The book provides visual models for each type of essay, from the Basic to the Super-Essay. Clear examples demonstrate the subtle differences between Persuasive and Argumentative essays. The Advanced Stylistic Techniques presented dramatically improve the students writing and grades. Shingled pages add to the uniqueness of its presentation.
$ 31.50
Personal, Online Live Instruction is available through Webster's Academy for Excellence in Writing in the Advanced Writing methods offered on this page.
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Our Newest and Greatly Expanded Version
How To Write Excellent Essays in 7 Easy Steps
This is a completely downloadable product that includes the newly expanded pdf version of the book "How to Write Excellent Essays in 7 Easy Steps"
PLUS
Seven hours of online video instruction taking you in detail through every model presented in the book.
Preview Videos and Chapter descriptions and order form are available HERE.
This is a physical representation of a digital product. No books or DVDs are shipped with this product.
The Elegant Essay: Building Blocks for Analytical Writing (Teacher/Student Combo)
Now in its third edition, The Elegant Essay walks students through the entire essay-building process. The student book includes instruction, practice exercises, modeling, and grade sheets. The separate teacher’s manual provides a sample schedule, grading helps, and lesson-by-lesson instructions regarding how to teach the material and includes sample models and answers. After practicing the elements of an essay, students apply all they have learned by completing two essay assignments: a descriptive and a persuasive essay. With clear explanations and practice exercises, The Elegant Essay is an excellent extension and refinement of IEW Unit 8. Consumable.
$ 55.00
Elegant Essay Student Book Only
$ 35.00
How to Write a Story
by Lee Roddy, author of Grizzly Adams and contributor to The Jesus Film
A natural extension of the4 IEW Unit 3 model for students in grades 6-12, this resource provides explanations and exercises for each stage of story construction; getting ideas, developing effective plots, creating realistic scenes and charaterization. Ideal for students who want to write longer stories and for teachers seeking idea on how to teach original fiction writing.
$34.00
A Guide to Writing Your Novel
by Lee Roddy
This unique book shows aspiring writers what they need to know to write their first novel.
- Designed especially for teenagers and older hopeful writers, instruction is based on 30 years of proven, practical methods of developing and idea into a complete story.
- This guide covers the common elements of all category novels as well as the special requirements of the key genres, suspence, mystery, romance, juvenile and others.
- Checklists and helpful workshop suggetions can be found throughout the book.
-This is the answer book to questions beginning writers have on all aspects of novel writing.
$34.00
Journalism Basics
by Megan House and Karin Viet
Discover whqat it takes to become a journalist -- froma news reporter or editorialist to a feature writer. Junior high and high school students will lear5n how to communicate current events to a wide audience. While writing their own newspaper, they will learn the principles of journalism such as conducting interviews, applying Associate Press style, and understanding worldviews. Students will write news, feature and opinion pieces. With self-directed and hands-on assignments, Journalism Basics will equip students to reach the world through journalism.
$34.00
Writing Research Papers: The Essential Tools
by Lesha Myers
This course moves high school students beyond basic essay writing and provides them with the tools to write a research paper. Part one teaches the beginning research paper. The prompt and source texts are provided so that studentscan focus on how to take and organize notes and use them to prove their point. Part two focuses on the research element of writing the paper and refining the final product. Part three moves the student toward independence to apply all that has been learned on a final paper.
Teacher /Student Combo $ 55.00
Student Book Only $ 35.00
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Speech Boot Camp
Youth can become powerful communicators when from adolescence they practice public speaking skills. Targeting students in grades 6–12 and showing actual footage of students’ speeches, this fast-paced public speaking course is presented on four DVDs with a downloadable e-book containing reproducible handouts for “trainees” and lesson plans with evaluation forms for the parent/facilitator. Lesson plans provide for either a four-day intensive or a eleven-week course.
$ 66.00
