• Grades 8-10
• TIP Talent Search participant price: $65.00
• Guest price: $92.00
• Semesterlong online course; student must independently purchase required texts

Have you met the challenge of The Writer's Journey, Volume 1? Now master the arts of annotation, dialectical journaling, and critical reading while honing your diction and figurative language. Craft arguments, literary analyses, research papers, and descriptions. Learn the art of writing for blogs and the Web and study models of professional and student work geared to rigorous evaluative rubrics. Become familiar with a thorough revision process to bring out the best in your writing. Complete interactive quizzes and link to the Internet. With the help of an accompanying Web site, your mentor can assist you using additional guidelines, answer keys, and supplementary materials. Developed with SoftChalk LessonBuilder, 2009 SIAA CODie Award winner for Best Education Technology Solution for Productivity/Creativity.

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Required texts (student must purchase independently)

• The Mercury Reader, a collection specially arranged for Duke TIP users, is available only at Pearson Education for about $50. Call (800) 922-0579 to order by phone. You must refer to ISBN-10 0558530885 when ordering.

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• The Art of Styling Sentences (4th edition), by Ann Longknife, Ph.D., & K.D. Sullivan. ISBN 0764121812

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