A Catholic English book, combining the beauty of literature, art, and poetry with the study of grammar and composition. In this completely integrated program your student will study grammar concepts within the context of real literature and write compositions that encourage critical thinking.

The text provides daily student lessons for a 36 four-day weeks. Each week features a piece of literature or a painting, one grammar concept, and one student writing assignment. The student will learn and practice narrative, expository, and persuasive writing as well as try his hand at writing poetry. Integrated throughout the text are the thoughts of great Catholic thinkers making this a uniquely Catholic book – Catholic in perspective – focused on the beauty of our Faith.

Literature selections include pieces by St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Abraham Lincoln, Kenneth Grahame, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Poetry selections include authors such as Sir Walter Scott, Longfellow, John Henry Newman, and Father Abram Ryan.

Printed in full colour, the art selections include painters such as Auguste Renoir, William Liddall Armitage, Winslow Homer, and Carlo Dolci.

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This text is the long awaited sequel to Lingua Mater: Language Lessons from Literature. It is intended for 8th or 9th grade and includes 36 weeks of lessons with a nine-week short story unit that includes the complete text of six short stories.

It continues the method begun in Lingua Mater of integrating grammar exercises with response to literature and art and using that as a springboard to good writing. Every piece of literature or art featured is by an American author or painter, such as Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent.

All selections are by American authors, some contemporary (homeschool moms, Dawn Hanigan and Suchi Myjak as well as Elaine Woodfield). Please see the table of contents (Table of Contents_LMA) for the complete list of topics covered.

Unit 4 is a short story unit.

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Advanced Academic Writing III not only requires longer, more complex, and more deeply documented papers of students than Volumes I and II; it also provides an exploration of intellectually advanced attitudes and understandings that differentiate the most mature and outstanding students, teaching students the excitement of aggressive research and the pleasure of participating in a scholarly tradition that has ennobled research for centuries.

Students who complete Volume III will be well-prepared for any high school or college course that requires them to write papers, and they will shine in any formal writing tasks they might be asked to do in their professional lives.

NOTE: This is the third edition of this book, updated to adhere to the current MLA standards and to include an expanded section on citing and referencing electronic sources of information. We strongly recommend against using older editions of this book.

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The instructor manual for Advanced Academic Writing III includes the full text of the student book plus special boxes that contain tips and questions for the instructor, activities for further study, suggestions for implementing the student book, and answers to questions and exercises.

The book comes with access to an extensive database of comments for instructors to use when grading student papers. It is Michael’s archive of his grading comments, compiled over many years, which help to make the grading process simpler for instructors and a helpful learning experience for students.

NOTE: This is the third edition of this book, updated to adhere to the current MLA standards and to include an expanded section on citing and referencing electronic sources of information. We strongly recommend against using older editions of this book.

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Advanced Academic Writing III not only requires longer, more complex, and more deeply documented papers of students than Volumes I and II; it also provides an exploration of intellectually advanced attitudes and understandings that differentiate the most mature and outstanding students, teaching students the excitement of aggressive research and the pleasure of participating in a scholarly tradition that has ennobled research for centuries.

This volume focuses on achieving unity in style and originality in content. It contains more elaborate MLA formatting rules, more proofreaders’ marks, and forty more actual research paper comments, for a total of 120 comments for the students to absorb into their understanding of what makes a paper good and what to avoid to write well. The appendix includes an extensive list of punctuation, grammar, and usage rules and a list of common errors, all of which include and expand upon the content in the first two volumes in the series.

Students who complete Volume III will be well-prepared for any high school or college course that requires them to write papers, and they will shine in any formal writing tasks they might be asked to do in their professional lives.

NOTE: This is the third edition of this book, updated to adhere to the current MLA standards and to include an expanded section on citing and referencing electronic sources of information. We strongly recommend against using older editions of this book.

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Advanced Academic Writing III – Instructor Manual
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Volume II of Advanced Academic Writing extends from Volume I with more elaborate MLA formatting rules to learn, more competent essay continuity to forge, more proofreaders’ marks to understand, and forty more actual research paper comments to absorb. Like Volume I, there are four assignments, this time requiring students to write longer, more complex papers than those required for the previous volume. And like Volume I, this book is illustrated with plenty of examples of the kinds of papers that the students are expected to write, complete with proofreaders’ marks to correct errors.

Volume II also contains the summaries of punctuation, usage, and grammar rules of Volume I for review, with additional items and special comments so that students are continuing to build their knowledge of what makes a good academic essay.

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The instructor manual for Advanced Academic Writing II includes the full text of the student book plus special boxes that contain tips and questions for the instructor, activities for further study, suggestions for implementing the student book, and answers to questions and exercises.

The book comes with access to an extensive database of comments for instructors to use when grading student papers. It is Michael’s archive of his grading comments, compiled over many years, which help to make the grading process simpler for instructors and a helpful learning experience for students.

NOTE: This is the third edition of this book, updated to adhere to the current MLA standards and to include an expanded section on citing and referencing electronic sources of information. We strongly recommend against using older editions of this book.

Companion Products:

Advanced Academic Writing II – Instructor Manual
Advanced Academic Writing II – Student Book
Advanced Academic Writing II Set

MCT Level 6: Student Book Set
MCT Level 6: Complete Package 

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In Advanced Academic Writing I, students practice writing academic papers with four assignments, for which they must review their knowledge of grammar and punctuation, learn the MLA method for formatting research papers, become versed in how to structure a well-written paper, and understand standard proofreaders’ marks for correcting their work.

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The instructor manual for Advanced Academic Writing I includes the full text of the student book plus special boxes that contain tips and questions for the instructor, activities for further study, suggestions for implementing the student book, and answers to questions and exercises.

The book comes with access to an extensive database of comments for instructors to use when grading student papers. It is Michael’s archive of his grading comments, compiled over many years, which help to make the grading process simpler for instructors and a helpful learning experience for students.

NOTE: This is the Third edition of this book, updated to adhere to the current MLA standards and to include an expanded section on citing and referencing electronic sources of information. We strongly recommend against using older editions of this book.

Companion Products:

Advanced Academic Writing I – Student Book
Advanced Academic Writing I – Instructor Manual
Advanced Academic Writing I Set

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MCT Level 5: Student Book Set

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In Advanced Academic Writing I, students practice writing academic papers with four assignments, for which they must review their knowledge of grammar and punctuation, learn the MLA method for formatting research papers, become versed in how to structure a well-written paper, and understand standard proofreaders’ marks for correcting their work.

The most significant feature of this book is that it includes sample papers to illustrate good and bad writing. When students can see what is expected of them—as well as what not to do—they have a far better chance at succeeding.

The book also contains an explanation of grading expectations and ten focus points for each assignment, providing students with forty actual research paper comments from Michael’s extensive archive of comments that he used most often when grading student papers—both corrective comments explaining how to fix various writing problems but also praise for aspects of writing that students did well.

This is a rigorous and detailed program, essential for anyone who needs to write formal academic papers. Michael writes:

“When we do advanced academic writing, we must learn not only to accept but to enjoy the relaxed pace of research, the meticulous construction of sentences, the gradual architecture of essays. The advanced process must be accompanied by an advanced attitude because so long as we resist enjoying advanced competence, we will be unable to achieve it.”

NOTE: This is the Third edition of this book, updated to adhere to the current MLA standards and to include an expanded section on citing and referencing electronic sources of information. We strongly recommend against using older editions of this book.

Companion Products:

Advanced Academic Writing I – Student Book
Advanced Academic Writing I – Instructor Manual
Advanced Academic Writing I Set

MCT Level 5: Complete Package
MCT Level 5: Student Book Set

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