Writer's Companion 2.0 inludes supprt for U.S. English, Spanish, and U.K.
English support!
Designed to be the ONE
program that you need to implement the writing process, this program was developed
based on years of experience in working with students who struggled with the
writing. All children and for that matter all adults have an innate need to
communicate with other humans. It is part of what defines us as human beings.
However, for many people writing is a mode of communication that often painful
and difficult.
In creating Writer’s
Companion™ we wanted to give the user the tools that would assist them
to communicate in a cogent and organized matter. Much of the structure of Writer’s
Companion is based on a compendium of different styles of process writing. We
take the user through the entire process from brainstorming ideas to publishing
their final draft.
Writer’s Companion™
is designed to engage even your most reluctant writers in a process that will
fill your classroom with sights and sounds of communication as we have come
to know it in this age of multimedia communication. Students can use text to
speech, include graphics, e-mail their stories directly from the program and
even automatically create web pages.
Writer’s Companion™
could be your students everyday word processor. We feel that having your students
go through the entire writing process every time they write will help them to
internalize the writing process.
Writer’s Companion™
was designed as an easy-to-use writing tool to accomplish these goals:
- To provide the students
with a carefully sequenced process, helping them to learn to write in an organized
manner.
- To create a dynamic environment
that encourages students to “communicate” through written expression
and graphics.
- To encourage students
to communicate using the latest technologies, including slide shows and email.
- To be an integral part
of an instructional environment, allowing all students to learn how to use
written language to communicate.
Writer’s Companion™
distinguishes itself from other writing tools by its:
- Unprecedented ease-of-use,
even your youngest students or your most reluctant writers will be amazed
and delighted with their own published stories with sound, graphics, and text.
- An emphasis on both paper
and electronic communication, students can print their stories and essays,
email them or automatically create web pages and share them with others on
our Writer’s Companion™ Web site.
- Poster size printing,
ideal use in the classroom as teaching aides to help your student understand
the writing process.
Program Features:
We have designed Writer’s
Companion™ to be progressively sophisticated depending on the age of
the user. You can use it as a simple single-page graphic writing program, appropriate
for a six-year-old or as a sophisticated writing program capable of creating
term papers in college.
Writer’s Companion™ has five distinct sections:
- Brainstorm: In
this mode the user simply creates text boxes and writes any idea they have
related to the theme of their story or essay.
- Organize: In
this mode the user can chose from any of three ways of organizing their ideas:
Clustering
Timeline
Venn Diagram
Each of these graphic organizers is used for different types of writing. Clustering
can be used for any type of story or essay. Timeline can be used any type
of writing that is sequential in nature, like recipes or directions. Venn
Diagram is great for compare and contrast.
- Sequence: This
part of the program allows you put the ideas you have related in the proper
sequence and ready to create a rough draft.
- Rough Draft:
Once you have your ideas and have organized them, this part of the program,
puts them together as one document and allows you to start the editing process.
In Rough Draft you can choose between seeing your document as an outline or
in paragraph form.
- Publish:
Once you have edited your document, you are ready to put on the finishing
touches like formatting your document, adding fonts, and adding graphics.
It is in this part of the program you will either print your document or publish
it digitally as an email or web page.
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