Connections : Writing, Reading, and Critical Thinking (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Ca...
ISBN: 9780205728022 | 0205728022
Edition: 3rdFormat: Package
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 11/24/2008
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The middle-level book in a three-book series, Connections helps developing writers make the connections between reading, writing, and critical thinking. The text moves beyond traditional sentence and paragraph exercises, offering a wide variety of activities and opportunities for journaling, supplemental readings, quick reference guides, and unique step-by-step writing assignments. Connections guides developmental writers gently through every stage of the writing process.
| Readingsby Theme | |
| Preface for Instructors | |
| A Note to Students | |
| Establishing The Connections | |
| The Writing-Reading-Critical Thinking Connection | |
| Introducing the Connections | |
| Reading Assignment: Writing in a Knowledge Economy | |
| The Writing Process: Making the Connections | |
| Reading Assignment: Be Your Own Communication Department | ... MORE |
| Summary of Chapter One | |
| Introduction to Verbs | |
| Identifying Specific Kinds of Verbs | |
| The Structure of Writing and How to Summarize Texts | |
| Understanding the Structure of Academic Writing | |
| Examining an Essay | |
| Reading Assignment: Women Play the Roles Men Want to See | |
| A Closer Look at PARTS The Writerrsquo;s Purpose and Audience Examining a Textbook Chapter | |
| Reading Assignment: Preparing for Marriage | |
| A Closer Look at PARTS | |
| The Writerrsquo;s Purpose and Audience | |
| Understanding the Structure of Journalistic | |
| Writing Examining a Feature Story | |
| Reading Assignment: He Turns Boys Into Men, | |
| A Closer Look at PARTS The Writerrsquo;s Purpose and Audience Building Summary Skills | |
| Writing the Academic Summary | |
| Summarizing an Essay | |
| Reading Assignment: Beauty May Only Be Skin Deep, But Its Effects Go On Forever | |
| Summarizing a Textbook | |
| Chapter Writing the Journalistic Summary | |
| Summarizing an Article Practicing Summary Skills | |
| Time to Reflect | |
| Summary of Chapter Two | |
| Verb Tense | |
| Verb Imposters and Prepositional Phrases | |
| Examining the Reading Process | |
| The PARTS of an Effective Reading Process | |
| Engaging in the Reading Process | |
| Reading Assignment: The Struggle to be an All American Girl | |
| Responding to Reading Building Your Vocabulary | |
| Practicing the Reading Process | |
| Reading the Personal Narrative | |
| Reading Assignment: Navigating My Eerie Landscape Alone | |
| Reading a Poem Reading Assignment: Refugee Ship | |
| Reading a Textbook Chapter | |
| Reading Assignment: Seventeenth Century | |
| Roles for Puritan Men, Women, and Paragraph Assignment: Societal Roles and Expectations | |
| Summary of Chapter Three | |
| Introduction to Subjects | |
| The Hard-To-Find Subject Style Tips | |
| Examining the Essay Writing Process | |
| The Stages of an Effective Writing Process | |
| Writing Assignment | |
| Analyzing Advertisements | |
| Writing Assignment | |
| Creating an Advertisement. | |
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