Wordsmith
Guide to College Writing (Book Alone)
3rd Edition
Published on 28. March 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
624 pages
978-0-13-194993-5 (ISBN)
Description
Wordsmith: A Guide to College Writing is appropriate essay level basic writing or first year composition courses. This text ships automatically with MyWritngLab.
What do your students want in a textbook?
Your life's work is centered on connecting to your students and preparing them for productive futures. Pamela Arlov created the Wordsmith series to help you connect with your students. We asked professors what they thought their students would want in a textbook. Here's what we heard and how Wordsmith addresses today's students:
1) Students find textbooks dry and tedious. Arlov includes engaging grammar openers, plenty of visuals, and has a writing style that is second to none!
2) Students find textbooks irrelevant to their lives. Arlov's combination of the rhetorical modes is realistic and models real life writing. She has also added "Real Writing" examples in the modes chapters to make Wordsmith even more relevant to students' lives.
3) Students become frustrated if the entire text is not used in class. Wordsmith is 100 pages briefer than similar texts on the market and an affordable option. This concise approach also does not overwhelm students with too much information. Wordsmith provides students with just the right balance of instruction and practice!
TheWordsmith series is your value-packed option that students will appreciate while mastering key writing and grammar skills.
What do your students want in a textbook?
Your life's work is centered on connecting to your students and preparing them for productive futures. Pamela Arlov created the Wordsmith series to help you connect with your students. We asked professors what they thought their students would want in a textbook. Here's what we heard and how Wordsmith addresses today's students:
1) Students find textbooks dry and tedious. Arlov includes engaging grammar openers, plenty of visuals, and has a writing style that is second to none!
2) Students find textbooks irrelevant to their lives. Arlov's combination of the rhetorical modes is realistic and models real life writing. She has also added "Real Writing" examples in the modes chapters to make Wordsmith even more relevant to students' lives.
3) Students become frustrated if the entire text is not used in class. Wordsmith is 100 pages briefer than similar texts on the market and an affordable option. This concise approach also does not overwhelm students with too much information. Wordsmith provides students with just the right balance of instruction and practice!
TheWordsmith series is your value-packed option that students will appreciate while mastering key writing and grammar skills.
More details
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 191 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-13-194993-5 (9780131949935)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Book
03/2009
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Content
PART I: Composition.
1. The Writing Process.
2. Preparing to Write.
3. Building a Framework: Thesis and Organization.
4. Introducing the Essay.
5. Developing Body Paragraphs.
6. Concluding the Essay.
7. Revising, Proofreading, and Formatting.
8. Showing and Telling: Description, Narration, and Example.
9. Limiting and Ordering Definition, Classification, and Process.
10. Examining Logical Connections: Comparison-Contrast, Cause-Effect, and Argument.
11. Writing a Summary.
12. Writing a Research Paper.
PART II: GRAMMAR.
13. Verbs and Subjects.
14. Subject-Verb Agreement.
15. Run-on Sentences.
16. Sentence Fragments.
17. Pronoun Case.
18. Pronoun Agreement, Reference, and Point of View.
19. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers.
20. Parallel Structure.
21. Verb Shifts.
22. Commas.
23. Other Punctuation.
24. Word Choice.
25. Words Commonly Confused.
26. Capital Letters.
27. Apostrophes.
28. Quotation Marks, Underlining, and Italics.
PART III: READINGS.
Complaining, Maya Angelou.
Two Ways of Seeing a River, Mark Twain.
Growing Up Bilingual, Sara Gonzalez.
The Game of My Life, Jeff Obafemi Carr.
Rebel with a Dye Job, Sono Motoyama.
When Words Get in the Way, Athlone G. Clarke.
Letting in Light, Patricia Raybon.
Coping with Procrastination, Roberta Moore, Barbara Baker, and Arnold H. Packer.
Migraine Blues, Candace Dyer.
The Right to Die, Norman Cousins.
The Brutal Business of Boxing, John Head.
Date Rape: Exposing Dangerous Myths, John J. Macionis.
Education Unplugged, Floyd Allen.
Should College Athletes Be Paid? Steve Wulf.
Reading, Writing, and... Ethics? Larry Fennelly.
1. The Writing Process.
2. Preparing to Write.
3. Building a Framework: Thesis and Organization.
4. Introducing the Essay.
5. Developing Body Paragraphs.
6. Concluding the Essay.
7. Revising, Proofreading, and Formatting.
8. Showing and Telling: Description, Narration, and Example.
9. Limiting and Ordering Definition, Classification, and Process.
10. Examining Logical Connections: Comparison-Contrast, Cause-Effect, and Argument.
11. Writing a Summary.
12. Writing a Research Paper.
PART II: GRAMMAR.
13. Verbs and Subjects.
14. Subject-Verb Agreement.
15. Run-on Sentences.
16. Sentence Fragments.
17. Pronoun Case.
18. Pronoun Agreement, Reference, and Point of View.
19. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers.
20. Parallel Structure.
21. Verb Shifts.
22. Commas.
23. Other Punctuation.
24. Word Choice.
25. Words Commonly Confused.
26. Capital Letters.
27. Apostrophes.
28. Quotation Marks, Underlining, and Italics.
PART III: READINGS.
Complaining, Maya Angelou.
Two Ways of Seeing a River, Mark Twain.
Growing Up Bilingual, Sara Gonzalez.
The Game of My Life, Jeff Obafemi Carr.
Rebel with a Dye Job, Sono Motoyama.
When Words Get in the Way, Athlone G. Clarke.
Letting in Light, Patricia Raybon.
Coping with Procrastination, Roberta Moore, Barbara Baker, and Arnold H. Packer.
Migraine Blues, Candace Dyer.
The Right to Die, Norman Cousins.
The Brutal Business of Boxing, John Head.
Date Rape: Exposing Dangerous Myths, John J. Macionis.
Education Unplugged, Floyd Allen.
Should College Athletes Be Paid? Steve Wulf.
Reading, Writing, and... Ethics? Larry Fennelly.