This product is designed to provide students with writing practice and to offer students insight into the concept of style in writing. The disk contains fifty paragraph-length lessons, taken directly from the Style Lessons in the Instructor's Resource Manual. This product is available in Macintosh and Windows formats. Instructors can assign the lessons for student practice outside of class and use the lessons as a prelude to discussing the essays in The Dolphin Reader.
Students learn the concept of style in writing by working with the disk.
They can work with the lessons either in a computerized writing lab or on their own computers. This program allows students to work with the lessons without having to write their responses out by hand. The lessons simply need to be edited on computer. The best way to use the computerized style lessons to complement the student text is to have students do the lessons outside of class immediately before or after discussing the particular essays on which the lessons are adapted. The lessons can also be done in class as a prelude to discussing the essays.