This worktext outlines tools high school students can use to write mature and varied sentences and build paragraphs by imitating models by authors like John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou, J.D. Salinger, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, and others. It describes the elements of the best sentences and offers activities and assignments for building them using sentence tools (the identifier, the elaborator, the describer, and the combo); punctuation; and paragraph techniques (unscrambling, imitating, and assembling paragraphs, and expanding paragraphs of other authors). There is no index. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)