English Skills with Readings
ISBN: 9780073384115 | 0073384119
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 7/17/2007
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The new seventh edition of "English Skills with Readings" features John Langan's trademark crystal-clear explanations, along with his range of motivating activities and writing assignments that reinforce the four bases of effective writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. This edition of the book adds a variety of exciting new features to John Langan's proven approach, and reinstates much-requested materials from previous editions.
| To the Instructor | |
| Basic Principles of Effective Writing | |
| 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 | |
| The Writing Process Prewriting Writing a First Draft Revising Editing Review Activities | |
| The First and Second Steps in Writing Step 1: Begin With a Point Step 2:... MORE | |
| The Third Step in Writing Step 3: Organize and Connect the Specific Evidence Practice in Organizing and Connecting Specific Evidence | |
| The Fourth Step in Writing Step 4: Write Clear, Error-Free Sentences Revising Sentences Editing Sentences Practice in Revising Sentences | |
| Four Bases for Revising Writing Base 1: Unity Base 2: Support Base 3: Coherence Base 4: Sentence Skills Practice in Using the Four Bases | |
| Paragraph Development | |
| Introduction to Paragraph Development Nine Patterns of Paragraph Development Important Considerations in Paragraph Development Using a Computer Using Peer Review Doing a Personal Review | |
| Exemplification | |
| Process | |
| Cause and Effect | |
| Comparison and Contrast | |
| Definition | |
| Division and Classification | |
| Description | |
| Narration | |
| Argument | |
| Additional Paragraph Assignments | |
| Essay Development | |
| Writing the Essay What Is an Essay? Important Points About the Essay Essays to Consider Planning the Essay Practice in Writing the Essay Essay Writing Assignments | |
| Research Skills | |
| Using the Library and the Internet | |
| Writing a Research Paper | |
| Handbook of Sentence Skills Preview Sentence-Skills Diagnostic Test Section I: GRAMMAR | |
| Subjects and Verbs | |
| Sentence Sense | |
| Fragments | |
| Run-Ons | |
| Standard English Verbs | |
| Irregular Verbs | |
| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Pronoun Agreement and Reference | |
| Pronoun Types | |
| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Section II: MECHANICS | |
| Paper Format | |
| Capital Letters | |
| Numbers and Abbreviations Section III: PUNCTUATION | |
| Apostrophe | |
| Quotation Marks | |
| Comma | |
| Other Punctuation Marks Section IV: WORD USE | |
| Using the Dictionary | |
| Improving Spelling | |
| Vocabulary Development | |
| Commonly Confused Words | |
| Effective Word Choice | |
| ESL Pointers Section V: PRACTICE | |
| Combined Mastery Tests | |
| Editing Tests Sentence-Skills Achievement Test | |
| Readings for Writers Introduction to the Readings Goals and Values All the Good Things | |
| Mrosla Rowing the Bus | |
| The Scholarship Jacket | |
| A Cool Man | |
| The First, the Clay, and the Rock | |
| What Good Families Are Doing Right | |
| Education and Self-Improvement Do It Better! | |
| M.D. with Cecil Murphey Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name | |
| Collier Let''s Really Reform Our Schools | |
| How They Get You to Do That | |
| Dealing with Feelings | |
| Extra-Large, Please | |
| Human Groups and Society The Most Hateful Words | |
| The Storyteller | |
| Rudeness at the Movies | |
| Bullies in School | |
| From Father to Son, Last Words to Live By | |
| A Drunken Ride, a Tragic Aftermath | |
| Reading Comprehension Chart | |
| Answers and Charts Preview Answers to Sentence Skills Diagnostic Test and Introductory Projects Charts | |
| A Writer''s Journal | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Index | |
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