Critiques explain successes and delineate problems needing further work. Sentence-level issues of grammar are not the main focus of instruction. Rather, tutors help students understand that conventions of Standard Written English are part of what, for many audiences, marks a careful, learned writer, but that writing is always much more than adherence to conventions. Level 3 develops clear communication of personal experience, primarily through the familiar essay. This level addresses such tactical issues as parallelism and such strategies as narration, description, and the use of persona.
Students discover the correlation between experience and ideas.
They learn that writing involves finding thematic patterns and making insightful connections. In addition, lessons link together, giving students practice with the whole writing process, from prewriting, through drafting, to revision. Content Summary Students receive up to fourteen lessons. Each lesson culminates in one of three types of final writing assignments. Revise 6 sentences to make them elegant, and write a paragraph for each revision explaining the revision choices.