Writing & Rhetoric, Book 9: Description & Impersonation

By Paul Kortepeter.

In this book, students will be writing well-crafted descriptive & expository compositions. The first part, description, emphasizes the use of vivid language to describe people, nature, and processes. The second part, impersonation, introduces the modes of persuasion as a means of imitating the writing style and outlook of four famous individuals: journalist Nellie Blu, writer Henry Williamson, athlete Jesse Owens, statesman Winston Churchill. In these compositions, students will be making use of a range of writing skills, including the ability to inform, to describe, to narrate, and to analyze.