In many schools, almost all the writing students do is addressed to the same audience - the teacher, who generally knows more about the subject than they do. Informational Writing focuses on challenging students with the kind of writing they will be required to do in the real world. The writer is generally more knowledgeable than the reader about the subject involved.

This supplementary English textbook, designed primarily for the 11th and 12th grade student, covers a wide variety of real-world writing situations - technical writing, journalism, news reporting, marketing and other types of persuasive writing as well as some academic writing.

Included in Informational Writing are 36 writing tasks directed at real-world audiences, many of which are appropriate for writing assignments in other subject areas as well. Each of these tasks give students practice in skills ranked high on the Curriculum Survey of Essential Skills. In addition, the majority of the tasks are at the highest levels of rigor and relevance on the Rigor/Relevance Framework.

A 24-page Teacher's Guide is included with every order. The Teacher Guide correlates each task to the Essential Skills and the Rigor/Relevance Framework. Detailed instructions are provided for assembling and evaluation of student' portfolios of their informational writing.

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