Wordsmith : A Guide to College Writing (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card)
ISBN: 9780205703319 | 0205703313
Edition: 4thFormat: Package
Publisher: PEARSON
Pub. Date: 1/1/2010
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The Wordsmith series is the value-priced option that students will appreciate while mastering key writing and grammar skills. Pam Arlov wrote a textbook series that counters many of the objections students had about textbooks, such as: Students find textbooks dry and tedious. Arlov includes thought-provoking chapter openers, plenty of visuals, and a conversational, engaging writing style that students really respond to. Students find textbooks irrelevant to their lives. Arlov's coverage of the rhetorical modes is realistic and models real-life ... MORE
| Composition | |
| The Writing Process | |
| Preparing to Write | |
| Building a Framework: Thesis and Organization | |
| Introducing the Essay | |
| Developing Body Paragraphs | |
| Concluding the Essay | |
| Revising, Proofreading, and Formatting | |
| Showing and Telling: Description, Narration, and Example | |
| Limiting and Ordering Definition, Clas... MORE | |
| Examining Logical Connections: Comparison-Contrast, Cause-Effect, and Argument | |
| Writing a Summary | |
| Writing a Research Paper | |
| Grammar | |
| Verbs and Subjects | |
| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
| Coordination and Subordination | |
| Run-on Sentences | |
| Sentence Fragments | |
| Pronoun Case | |
| Pronoun Agreement, Reference, and Point of View | |
| Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | |
| Parallel Structure | |
| Verb Shifts | |
| Sentences with Style | |
| Commas | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Word Choice | |
| Words Commonly Confused | |
| Capital Letters | |
| Apostrophes | |
| Quotation Marks, Underlining, and Italics | |
| Readings | |
| Two Ways of Seeing a River | |
| Growing Up Bilingual | |
| The Game of My Life | |
| When Words Get in the Way | |
| Letting in Light | |
| Coping with Procrastination | |
| Migraine Blues | |
| The Right to Die | |
| The Brutal Business of Boxing | |
| Date Rape: Exposing Dangerous Myths | |
| Education Unplugged | |
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