Full Description
Clear, simple, and straightforward, this sentence-to-paragraph developmental writing text couples thorough coverage of the writing process with many opportunities for grammar practice. The book's 4-colour design is crisp and clear, emphasizing the content and presenting it in a manner that is easy for developing writers to navigate. - Editing Practices - throughout the text provide students with realistic opportunities to correct grammar in a context more realistic than sentence drills. - Topic Banks - In the paragraph and essay chapters (Chapters 12-22), writing suggestions have been consolidated in a Topic Bank for ease of use, and one suggestion has been tied to each chapter opening photo. - More Practices in The Writers Resources - the new edition includes a wealth of additional exercises on parts of speech, clauses and phrases, punctuation, and words and meaning. - Flexibility and Modularity - Clear and simple format and ease of use. The topical presentation boasts sequencing that is logical and flows easily from chapter to chapter. Yet all chapters are entirely modular, allowing instructors to customize the text to meet the needs of their individual students/classes. - Simple Design / Awareness of the Needs of Learning Disabled Students - Clear and crisp 4 color design, emphasizing the content and presenting it in a manner that is easy for developing writers to navigate. In keeping with the needs of students with learning disabilities, the design is simple and straightforward, not cluttered or confusing. - Awareness of ESL issues - Gayle Feng-Checkett is a certified ESL Instructor and much of the text was written with an understanding of ESL students and pedagogy. This ESL pedagogy - from which all developing writers can benefit - informs the entire text. - The Writers Resources - provides students with clear, concise, basic grammar instruction coupled with a vast number of exercises to bolster understanding and assist in the mastery of grammatical skills. - Photo Exercises - paragraph and essay writing chapters (Chapters 13-22) conclude with "Writing Opportunities" - a photo exercise that provides a rhetorical context for writing and stimulates creativity. - Read All About It - excerpts from professional and student essays used in the Practices are accompanied by a marginal feature that directs students to the Additional Readings section, where they can find the original essay printed in full.
Contents
TO THE STUDENT: GETTING STARTED. 1. The Importance of Writing. 2. Elements of Good Writing. I. WRITING EFFECTIVE SENTENCES. 3. The Simple Sentence and the Independent Clause. 4. Linking Independent Clauses Using the Comma and Coordinators. 5. Combining Independent Clauses Using the Semicolon. 6. Combining Independent Clauses Using the Adverbial Conjunction. 7. Adding a List. 8. Adding a Colon for Variety. 9. The Dependent Clause. 10. The Introductory Phrase. 11. Starting a Sentence with an Introductory Word. 12. Adding Interrupters to the Sentence. II. WRITING EFFECTIVE PARAGRAPHS. 13. The Paragraph. 14. Description. 15. Narration. 16. Using Examples. 17. Classification. 18. Process. 19. Comparison and Contrast. 20. Definition. 21. Persuasion (including Cause and Effect). III. WRITING EFFECTIVE ESSAYS. 22. The Essay. THE WRITERS RESOURCES. READINGS. Limited Answer Key. Glossary. Credits. Index.
