ULW Question for SCM

Hi, Crystal. We don’t have an estimated release date for ULW3 yet. Some of the projects on my plate were reshuffled and expanded, which threw my target dates out the window.

ULW 4 and 5 will focus mainly on helping students fine tune their writing skills, not so much on specific formats of writing such as five-paragraph essays and research papers; for those, we will continue to recommend BBR3.

In general terms, the composition books will provide examples and study of various types and styles of writing (persuasive, expository, point of view, poetry, etc.), word studies (metaphors, similes, prefixes, suffixes, personification, idioms, etc.), structure consistency, outlining, word choice, and things like that. They will also address some of the more detailed mechanics and usage guidelines for punctuation and capitalization. I’m thinking about also including a walk through of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style.

If you have other ideas, please feel free to let me know. I’d like to make these resources as helpful as possible for all of you.

ULW3 will continue the study of grammar. In ULW2 the student learns the parts of speech. In ULW3 he will learn the jobs those parts of speech do; such as, direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, gerund, infinitive, participle, etc. The analyzing will be along the lines of looking at phrases within the sentence and determining what job each is doing and in relation to what other words or phrases; for example, this phrase modifies the subject. That sort of analyzing. Not as in-depth as Analytical Grammar, but still helpful for organizing one’s thoughts in writing and understanding someone else’s written thoughts.

A concise guide to punctuation, capitalization, and grammar that has been helpful to me is Write Right by Jan Venolia. You might take a look at it and see if it is along the lines of what you’re looking for.