English Skills- Text Only

JOHN LANGAN

Mcgraw-Hill College

Best-selling rhetorically-organized reader on the market. Separate chapters on the reading and writing process. Extensive pedagogy, including detailed introductions to each rhetorical pattern, more exercises and assignments than other readers, "before" and "after" student essays illustrating each mode. Extensive treatment on blending the rhetorical patterns. New: 1/5 of the selections; revised argumentation - persuasion chapter; more on blending patterns; more activities to help with prewriting and revising; more "paired" writing assignments, updated documentation chapter.

The Macmillan Reader

Judith Nadell

Linda McMeniman

Literature & Fiction

Allyn&Bacon

"Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays" 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 paragraphs and essays, and becoming a critical reader are turning points for every writer, and they will prepare the students for writing situations in college and beyond.

Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

McGraw-Hill/Higher Education

John Langan's best-selling sentence-level worktext returns in a new edition highlighting the essential grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and usage skills needed for clear, college-level writing.

Sentence Skills with Readings

Words, Language & Grammar

McGraw-Hill Europe

Sentence Skills: A Workbook for Writers, Form B

Mcgraw-Hill (Tx)

English Skills [paperback] Langan, John [Dec 01, 1988]

English Skills

Foreign Language Study & Reference

textbook on writing at the college level

College Writing Skills with Readings, 2nd Edition

Classics

Focusing on grammar mechanics and sentence construction, this work covers basic writing skills and provides an alternate version to Form A, with fresh exercises and assignments. A number of tests are also included. Self-teaching is encouraged; students may check their answers to introductory projects and practice activities. This new edition features an instructor's edition with all the answers to the tests and activities. The material has been expanded to cover: more details on using the comma and the apostrophe; information on run-on sentences; two combined editing tests; and three updated chapters. In particular, the "Writing Assignments" section now provides a wider variety of writing assignments to give students more practice writing simple paragraphs and essays. Many companion texts are available, including: an instructor's manual (0-07-036412-5), a 5.25" diskette drill tutorial (0-07-837794-3), a 3.5" diskette drill tutorial (0-07-839452-X), a MAC drill tutorial (0-07-837681-5), revised ditto masters with more tests and activities (0-07-074611-7) and an annotated instructor's edition (0-07-036411-7).

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

McGraw-Hill Book Company

For courses in developmental writing/composition, this text has four unifying principles: unity, support, coherence and sentence skills. 25 essays provide a source of material for a range of writing assignments and a wide range of activities is included.

College Writing Skills with Readings, 3rd Edition

This rhetoric/worktext is designed for developmental writing courses that focus on paragraph writing skills in preparation for essay writing. This text stresses the four keys to effective writing - unity, support, coherence and sentence skills. Student writing topics are both experiential and odjective - they aim to teachg the student how to develop an idea and draw upon their own reasoning abilities provided form their own experiences. Updated and revised examples, plus exercises and writing assignments should teach students all the skills they need. in this new edition, chapter one offers an overview of the basics of effective writing. The section, "important factors in writing" has been moves to the beginning of the text and features invention strategies such as keeping a journal and prewriting in the form of diagramming or mapping. The chapter on writing a research paper has been revised, incorporating a complete student research paper and the chapter on using the library includes current computerized research facilities. In addition the "introduction to paragraph development" has been expanded to include writing for a specific purpose and audience, using peer review and using a personal checklist.

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English Skills- Text Only

The Macmillan Reader

Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays

Sentence Skills with Readings

Sentence Skills: A Workbook for Writers, Form B

English Skills

College Writing Skills with Readings, 2nd Edition

Sentence Skills: A Workbook for Writers, Form B

College Writing Skills with Readings, 3rd Edition

English Skills