English Skills with Readings: AND Student CD, OLC Bind-In Card
Text
6th Edition
Published on 1. January 2007
Book
Mixed media product
758 pages
978-0-07-321517-4 (ISBN)
Description
One of the most comprehensive and well-respected books of its kind, this best-selling rhetoric/reader/handbook is designed for developmental writing courses that focus on paragraph writing skills in preparation for essay writing. "English Skills with Readings" features John Langan's crystal-clear explanations and his wide range of motivating activities and writing assignments that effectively reinforce the Four Bases of Effective Writing: Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills.
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Edition
6th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1158 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-321517-4 (9780073215174)
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Previous edition
Book
03/2002
5th Edition
McGraw-Hill Professional
€39.80
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Person
John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for over twenty years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both subjects, he enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Glassboro State College. He also spent a year writing fiction.
Content
Readings Listed by Rhetorical ModeTo the InstructorPART ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE WRITING Preview1. An Introduction to Writing Understanding Point and SupportAn Overview: How the Book is OrganizedBenefits of Paragraph WritingWriting as a SkillWriting as a Process of DiscoveryKeeping a JournalUsing This Text 2. The Writing Process PrewritingWriting a First DraftRevisingEditingReview Activities3. The First and Second Steps in Writing Step 1: Begin with a Point Step 2: Support the Point with Specific Evidence Reinforcing Point and SupportThe Importance of Specific DetailsThe Importance of Adequate DetailsPractice in Making and Supporting a Point 4. The Third Step in Writing Step 3: Organize and Connect the Specific Evidence Practice in Organizing and Connecting Specific Evidence5. The Fourth Step in Writing Step 4: Write Clear, Error-Free Sentences Revising Sentences Editing Sentences Practice in Revising Sentences 6.Four Bases for Revising Writing Base 1: Unity Base 2: Support Base 3: Coherence Base 4: Sentence Skills Practice in Using the Four Bases PART TWO: PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT Preview7. Introduction to Paragraph Development Nine Patterns of Paragraph DevelopmentImportant Considerations in Paragraph DevelopmentUsing a ComputerUsing Peer ReviewDoing a Personal Review8. Providing Examples 9. Explaining a Process 10. Examining Cause and Effect 11. Comparing or Contrasting 12. Defining a Term 13. Dividing and Classifying 14. Describing a Scene or Person 15. Narrating an Event 16. Arguing a Position PART THREE: ESSAY DEVELOPMENT Preview17. Additional Paragraph Assignments18. Writing the Essay What Is an Essay? Important Points about the Essay Essays to Consider Planning the Essay Practice in Writing the Essay Essay Assignments PART FOUR: A QUICK GUIDE TO RESEARCH Preview19. A Quick Guide to Research PART FIVE: HANDBOOK OF SENTENCE SKILLS PreviewSentence-Skills Diagnostic TestGrammar 20. Subjects and Verbs 21. Sentence Sense 22. Fragments 23. Run-Ons 24. Standard English Verbs 25. Irregular Verbs 26. Subject-Verb Agreement 27. Pronoun Agreement and Reference 28. Pronoun Types 29. Adjectives and Adverbs 30. Misplaced Modifiers 31. Dangling Modifiers Mechanics 32. Paper Format 33. Capital Letters 34. Numbers and Abbreviations Punctuation 35. Apostrophe 36. Quotation Marks 37. Comma 38. Other Punctuation Marks Word Use 39. Using the Dictionary 40. Improving Spelling 41. Vocabulary Development 43. Commonly Confused Words 44. Effective Word Choice 45. ESL Pointers Practice 46. Combined Mastery Tests 47. Editing Tests Sentence-Skills Achievement Test PART SIX: SEVENTEEN READING SELECTIONSPreviewIntroduction to the ReadingsGoals and ValuesAll the Good Things by Sister Helen MroslaRowing the Bus by Paul LoganThe Scholarship Jacket by Marta SalinasJoe Davis: A Cool Man by Beth JohnsonTickets to Nowhere by Andy RooneyWhat Good Families Are Doing Right by Delores CurranEducation and Self-ImprovementDo It Better! by Ben Carson, M.D. with Cecil MurpheyAnxiety: Challenge by Another Name by James Lincoln CollierOld Before Her Time by Katherine BarrettLet's Really Reform Our Schools by Anita GarlandHow They Get You to Do That by Janny ScottDealing with Feelings by Rudolph F. VerderberHuman Groups and SocietyThe Most Hateful Words by Amy TanThe Storyteller, Adapted from H.H. Munro ("Saki")Rudeness at the Movies by Bill WineBullies in School by Kathleen BergerA Drunken Ride, a Tragic Aftermath by Theresa Conroy and Christine M. JohnsonAppendix: Answers and Charts PreviewAnswers to Sentence Skills Diagnostic Test and Introductory Projects Charts Acknowledgments Index