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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 assingments that effectively reinforce the Four Bases of Effective Writing: Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills.
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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.
Contenuti:
Readings Listed by Rhetorical Mode
To the Instructor
PART ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE WRITING
Preview
1. An Introduction to Writing
Understanding Point and Support
An Overview: How the Book is Organized
Benefits of Paragraph Writing
Writing as a Skill
Writing as a Process of Discovery
Keeping a Journal
Using This Text
2. The Writing Process
Prewriting
Writing a First Draft
Revising
Editing
Review Activities
3. The First and Second Steps in Writing
Step 1: Begin with a Point
Step 2: Support the Point with Specific Evidence
Reinforcing Point and Support
The Importance of Specific Details
The Importance of Adequate Details
Practice 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 Evidence
5. 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
Preview
7. Introduction to Paragraph Development
Nine Patterns of Paragraph Development
Important Considerations in Paragraph Development
Using a Computer
Using Peer Review
Doing a Personal Review
8. 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
Preview
17. Additional Paragraph Assignments
18. 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
Preview
19. A Quick Guide to Research
PART FIVE: HANDBOOK OF SENTENCE SKILLS
Preview
Sentence-Skills Diagnostic Test
Grammar
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 SELECTIONS
Preview
Introduction to the Readings
Goals and Values
All the Good Things by Sister Helen Mrosla
Rowing the Bus by Paul Logan
The Scholarship Jacket by Marta Salinas
Joe Davis: A Cool Man by Beth Johnson
Tickets to Nowhere by Andy Rooney
What Good Families Are Doing Right by Delores Curran
Education and Self-Improvement
Do It Better! by Ben Carson, M.D. with Cecil Murphey
Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name by James Lincoln Collier
Old Before Her Time by Katherine Barrett
Let's Really Reform Our Schools by Anita Garland
How They Get You to Do That by Janny Scott
Dealing with Feelings by Rudolph F. Verderber
Human Groups and Society
The Most Hateful Words by Amy Tan
The Storyteller, Adapted from H.H. Munro ("Saki")
Rudeness at the Movies by Bill Wine
Bullies in School by Kathleen Berger
A Drunken Ride, a Tragic Aftermath by Theresa Conroy and Christine M. Johnson
Appendix: Answers and Charts
Preview
Answers to Sentence Skills Diagnostic Test and Introductory Projects
Charts
Acknowledgments
Index
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