A veteran copyeditor studies the practice of diagramming sentences in a charming and funny look back at its odd history, its elegant method, and its rich, ongoing possibilities.
"Exploring Writing: Sentences and Paragraphs" serves as a guidebook for every step of the writing process. Emphasizing both process and practice, with a focus on revision, the new second edition helps to apply and advance writing skills using John Langan's proven techniques. Mastering essential sentence skills, learning to write effective ...
Authors of widely adopted college texts, Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell have taught college composition and basic writing for more than twenty-five years. Using their finely-tuned sense of what works best in the classroom, they have created "Foundations First: Sentences and Paragraphs" and "Writing First: Practice in Context, " an innovative, ...
This best-selling sentence-level worktext by John Langan continues to help students master the essential grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and usage skills needed for clear, thoughtful writing. The seventh edition of "Sentence Skills, Form A" features a greater emphasis on prewriting and revision, a new chapter for non-native speakers, and much ...
In this new edition, the authors review the fundamentals of correct sentence structure, then present 20 basic sentence patterns that encompass virtually every effective way of writing simple, compound, and complex sentences.
"Sentence Skills, Form B", the alternate version of "Sentence Skills, Form A", is designed to help students master the essential grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and usage rules needed for clear, thoughtful writing. All three versions of "Sentence Skills -Form A, Form B", and "Sentence Skills With Reading", feature a flexible format and a wide ...
This successful Langan worktext continues to help students master the essential grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and usage skills needed for clear, thoughtful writing.
For developmental writing courses covering sentences and paragraphs. Whether your students enroll in the course with varying skill levels, whether they are native or nonnative speakers of English, or whether they learn better through the use of visuals, The Writer's World can help students with varying needs come together and excel at becoming ...
For your classes in Developmental Writing, McGraw-Hill introduces the latest in its acclaimed M Series. The M Series started with your students. McGraw-Hill conducted extensive market research with over 4,000 students to gain insight into their studying and buying behavior. Students told us they wanted more portable texts with innovative visual ...
Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond is the lower-level companion to Paragraphs and Essays in the popular two-level Brandon series. Written in an informal, engaging tone, this easy-to-use text incorporates sentence-level grammar and mechanics with in-depth instruction in the writing process and patterns of writing. New reading instruction offers ...
Writing Talk addresses students' diverse learning styles by providing the most varied practice exercises. Each student learns differently. Winkler and McCuen-Matherall created a writing series to help instructors reach more students. Writing Talk reaches more students by providing the most varied practice exercises of any writing text. Every unit ...
The assistant director of The Sentencing Project, a criminal justice reform group, analyzes the unprecedented explosion in the prison population during the past 25 years, and examines how the "get tough" movement has taken its most serious toll on African Americans.
Like having an editor at one's elbow, this guide makes clear writing easy to achieve, demonstrating practical and applicable techniques for achieving the final, critical step in writing.
The Writer's World addresses the diverse needs of your students by meeting the needs of nonnative English speakers, visual learners and students with varying skill levels! What are the diverse needs of your students? Do you have students with varying skill levels? Do you have nonnative English speakers in your courses? How many of your students ...
For Developmental courses at the Sentence to Paragraph level. This comprehensive text/workbook is designed especially for basic students. Filled with exercises and activities, both individual and collaborative, this text involves students in the process of learning to write through reading, listening, practicing and experiencing. The text begins ...
This basic, step-by-step sentence-to-paragraph developmental writing textbook offers writing instruction and practice on grammar rules and concepts that help students succeed in their college courses and beyond. Introductory material on writing effective paragraphs is also included. - More Visual Aids: Each chapter includes more charts, lists, and ...
This two-book developmental writing series engages using with its environmental theme. "A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Sentences, Building Paragraphs" engages developing writers with a hands-on, process-oriented, collaborative, and conscientious approach to writing, treating students as writers and writing as a dynamic process. Throughout, this ...
Pathways for Writing Scenarios, a full color, sentence-to-paragraph writing text, teaches effective writing through a practical and unique focus on ideas over rules. Fundamental sentence and paragraph writing skills are taught while engaging student interest, keeping the focus on ideas rather than on rules, and stressing the interconnection of ...
Quick, comprehensive writing guidance at a low cost--the At a Glance series can be paired with any developmental title or used independently. This flexible series includes a separate textbook for sentences, paragraphs, essays, and a reader. Each book features clear, concise instruction reinforced by extensive practice, exercises, and examples. The ...
Writing with Confidence , a value-priced developmental writing worktext, provides essential instruction and practice in basic writing skills at the sentence and paragraph level. The first developmental text to incorporate high-interest, connected discourse subject matter in its exercises, Writing with Confidence retains and expands on this feature ...
"Pathways: Writing Scenarios "teaches sentence and paragraph writing skills through themed writing scenarios, a focus on ideas over rules, and connecting grammar and the writing process. Covering all the significant topics at this level, the text also provides comprehensive and integrated coverage of the reading-writing connection (including a ...
Most people think that good grammar leads to good writing, but the truth is that while it may be technically correct, good writing is also strong, concise and specific. In "The Curious Case of the Misplaced Modifier", Bonnie Trenga identifies the seven writing weaknesses that editors everywhere encounter again and again. In fact, almost all of an ...
Don and Jenny Killgallon's sentence-composing approach has transformed how writing is taught in thousands of language arts classes, helping students all across America become more proficient, sophisticated writers. Now the Killgallons use their highly effective method for a unique, powerful textbook that links good writing to that perennially ...
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