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Jensen's Format Writing
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013488
ISBN
9780890519929
Grade 7-12
Christian/Religious
Medium Teacher Involvement
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Other Materials Optional
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- Prepares students for college and real-life writing
- Logical presentation of expository writing skills
- DVD available with author Frode Jensen walking the student through each section
- One or two year schedule
Description
If you are looking to develop your expository writing skills, check out thisworkbook. Expository writing exposes, puts forth, explains, reveals, orexhibits in detail about something. This style of writing is perfect to usewhen you want to inform, clarify, or persuade. Honestly, this style of writingis what your child needs to learn for college! It falls perfectly in line withwhat my college professors wanted. Luckily, I had learned this style of writingduring my high school years, so I was well prepared. You'll want to prepareyour child in the same way.
This book falls naturally into seven sections. You would be hard-pressed totry and do all the sections in one year, as there is so much to cover and thewriting and research process takes time. (Remember, college professors oftengive students a whole semester to work on one very detailed and in-depthpaper.) Section one works on single paragraph formats. Then in section twoyou'll work on the elements of the five paragraph essay and different formatsyou can use. Book reports put the five paragraph formats to use in sectionthree. Section four works on business writing, such as: business letters,letters of complaint, cover letters, political letters, and resume writing. Insection five, you'll work on the principle of condensation as you learn how towrite in various lengths as you reduce, abridge, abbreviate, shorten, cut,compress, compact, or distill your work! Now you are ready to compose a majorpaper and all its components (title page, endnotes, appendix, bibliography,etc), as outlined in section six. Section seven contains all the check sheetsand forms, tests, answer keys, and sample week-by-week schedules to help youorganize deadlines for the longer, more detailed papers.
This workbook is very straightforward in its presentation of this writingstyle, but it is very clear, concise, and helpful. If my recommendation isn'tenough, then maybe you'd be interested to know that this is also one of CathyDuffy's 100 Top Picks. 160 pgs, pb. - elise
Writing (9-12)
Publisher's Description of Jensen's Format Writing
Part of Frode Jensen's classic series of writing homeschool curriculum, Jensen's Format Writing is a curriculum that is easy for both parents and students to use. The supplemental DVD makes things even easier as it walks parents through how to grade writing and also provides additional teaching material for students.
The course will teach students:
- the secret of cutting your work in half when it comes to writing a paper.
- how to organize papers for the most powerful effect on the reader.
- a technique for getting the essence of what students read down on paper for future reference.
- how to stack up ideas so that they flow together in a natural fashion.
- how to move ideas from sentence to sentence by following a simple rule.
- all about what and how to document sources when doing research and writing.
Category Description for Jensen's Format Writing
Jensen’s Format Writing provides college preparatory, expository writing instruction that is based on a well-organized template. The book is organized into six sections. There is so much to cover here so you could plan to spend more than one year with this course, although there is a suggested 180- day schedule. Section one works on single paragraph formats. Then, in section two, you’ll work on the elements of the five paragraph essay and different formats you can use. Book reports put the five paragraph formats to use in section three. Section four works on business writing. In section five, you’ll work on the principle of condensation as you learn how to write in various lengths. Reduce, abridge, abbreviate, shorten, cut, compress, compact, or distill your work! Now you are ready to compose a major paper and all of its components as outlined in section six. The workbook is very straightforward in its presentation of this writing style and is very clear, concise, and helpful. It contains check sheets and forms, tests, answer keys, and a two-year schedule if you’d like to spend more time. The suggested lesson plans offer room for record-keeping.
Details
| Product Format: | Softcover Book |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 7-12 |
| Brand: | Master Book Publishers |
| Author: | Frode Jensen |
| ISBN: | 9780890519929 |
| Length in Inches: | 10.875 |
| Width in Inches: | 8.375 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.625 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 1.45 |
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Why did you choose this?
it has lots of structured "expository" i.e. "presentation of evidence" type writing and it has a daily assignment schedule all worked out.
My son is starting a homeschool co-op for freshman year. We want him to be a great writer, and he is taking freshman format writing, and this is the book that was on the supplies list.
Required book for home school co op learning.
We used this for our older son and it helped him tremendously with his writing. It is a little dry but very systematic.