The Reason to write series offers students strategies and practice in writing for academic success. Students are carefully guided through the stages of writing, from generating ideas, to drafting and revising, to proofreading and editing.
The High Beginning level provides students with the fundamentals of formal and academic writing. Students move from sentence to paragraph level and acquire familiaritywith such skills as writing a formal letter, presenting and supporting opinions, explaining information from graphs, and analyzing a short story.
Unit 1 What' s in a name?
Unit 2 Giving advice
Unit 3 Creating gardens - building community
Unit 4 Work
Unit 5 Free as a bird
Unit 6 Education: Graphing progress
Unit 7 Tolstoy' s fables
Unit 8 Violent video games