The Writer's Journey, Volume 1 (Grade levels 6-8)

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Feeling adventurous?  Then accept the challenge and depart on The Writer’s Journey!  Slay the dragons of dull language and disorganization, so you can seize the treasure: writing that grabs your readers’ attention with well-chosen details. On this journey, you will delve into concepts such as vivid diction, controlling purpose, audience awareness, and lively voice while studying examples of descriptive, expressive, and narrative writing in the accompanying Mercury Reader for Developing Writers (sold separately). Each interactive lesson offers electronic flashcards, crosswords, quizzes, and Web links to help you practice skills and select writing topics of personal interest while meeting national and state standards. You will experience eight stages of the writer’s journey (including prewriting, drafting, and editing) as you write sensory descriptions, comparisons, dialectical journals, poems, autobiographical incidents, and short stories. With the help of an accompanying Web site, your mentor can assist you using additional guidelines, answer keys, and supplementary materials.

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System Requirements
Windows Mac
  • Windows 98 or higher
  • 450 MHz Intel Pentium II processor (or equivalent) and higher
  • IE 6 or higher, Firefox 1 or higher, Netscape 7 or higher, AOL 9 or higher, Opera 7.11 or higher
  • 128 MB RAM
  • 1024x768/ True colors
  • 16x CD-ROM
  • Mac OS X 10 or higher
  • PowerPC G3 500 MHz or higher
  • Intel 1.83 GHz or higher
  • Safari 1 or later or Firefox 1 or later (IE no supported)
  • 128MB RAM
  • Mac OS 9 is not supported

Required Textbooks (sold separately)

  • The Mercury Reader for Developing Writers (a collection specially arranged for Duke TIP users available at Pearson Education for $30.39 (Price subject to change).

Recommended Materials

For the final unit in The Writer’s Journey, Volume 1 , a handbook on grammar and sentence variety is recommended. This handbook will also be used for The Writer’s Journey, Volume 2 , forthcoming in 2008.

Click on the textbook titles below to see availability and compare prices of new and/or used copies of the textbook at various online booksellers. Students can also purchase this textbook at a local bookstore, or they can likely find a copy in their school or public library. The price in parentheses is the list price for a new copy of the textbook; that price is subject to change.

Other handbooks of style can be substituted, such as