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Exploring Writing: Sentences and Paragraphs 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 sentences, 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.

Table of Contents:
EXPLORING WRITING: SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS, 2/eBy John LanganTABLE OF CONTENTSPREFACEPART ONEWRITING: SKILLS AND PROCESS 1. An Introduction to Writing Understanding Point and Support An Important Difference Between Writing and TalkingPoint and Support in Two Cartoons Point and Support in a Paragraph Writing as a Skill Why Does Your Attitude toward Writing Matter? Writing as a Process of Discovery Keeping a Journal 2. The Writing Process How Do You Reach the Goals of Effective Writing?Prewriting Technique 1: FreewritingTechnique 2: QuestioningTechnique 3: Making a List Technique 4: ClusteringTechnique 5: Preparing a Scratch OutlineWriting a First Draft Writing a First Draft: A Student ModelRevising Revising: A Student ModelEditing and Proofreading Editing TipsProofreading TipsEditing and Proofreading: A Student Model Tips on Using a ComputerUsing a Computer at Each Stage of the Writing ProcessUsing Peer Review 1. Identification 2. Scratch Outline 3. CommentsReview Activities PrewritingOutlining, Drafting, and Revising Taking a Writing Inventory Chapter ReviewPART TWOWRITING EFFECTIVE PARAGRAPHS 3.Four Steps for Writing, Four Bases for Revising What Are The Steps to Writing Effective Paragraphs? Step 1: Make a Point Step 2: Support Your Point Step 3: Organize the Support Step 4: Write Clear, Error-Free Sentences Four Bases for Revising Writing Base 1: UnityBase 2: SupportBase 3: CoherenceBase 4: Sentence Skills 4. Nine Patterns of Paragraph Development Important Considerations in Paragraph Development Knowing Your SubjectKnowing Your Purpose and AudiencePatterns of Development 1. Exemplification A Paragraph to ConsiderWriting an Exemplification Paragraph 2. Narration A Paragraph to ConsiderWriting a Narrative Paragraph 3. DescriptionA Paragraph to ConsiderWriting a Description Paragraph 4. ProcessA Paragraph to ConsiderWriting a Process Paragraph 5. Cause and EffectA Paragraph to ConsiderWriting a Cause-and-Effect Paragraph 6. Comparison or ContrastA Paragraph to ConsiderWriting a Comparison or Contrast Paragraph 7. DefinitionA Paragraph to ConsiderWriting a Definition Paragraph 8. Division-ClassificationA Paragraph to ConsiderWriting a Division-Classification Paragraph 9. ArgumentA Paragraph to ConsiderWriting an Argument Paragraph 5. Moving From Paragraph to EssayWhat Is an Essay? Differences between an Essay and a ParagraphThe Form of an EssayA Model Essay Important Points about the Essay Introductory Paragraph Common Methods of IntroductionSupporting ParagraphsTransitional SentencesConcluding Paragraph Essays to Consider Planning the Essay Outlining the EssayForm for Planning the EssayPractice in Writing the Essay Understanding the Two Parts of a Thesis StatementSupporting the Thesis with Specific EvidenceIdentifying IntroductionsRevising an Essay for All Four Bases: Unity, Support, Coherence,and Sentence SkillsEssay Assignments Additional Writing AssignmentsPART THREESENTENCE SKILLS SECTION 1: SENTENCES 1. Subjects and Verbs 2. Fragments 3. Run-Ons 4. Sentence Variety I SECTION 2: VERBS, PRONOUNS, AND AGREEMENT 5. Standard English Verbs 6. Irregular Verbs 7. Subject-Verb Agreement 8. Consistent Verb Tense 9. Additional Information about Verbs 10. Pronoun Reference, Agreement, and Point of View 11. Pronoun Types SECTION 3: MODIFIERS AND PARALLELISM 12. Adjectives and Adverbs 13. Misplaced Modifiers 14. Dangling Modifiers 15. Faulty Parallelism 16. Sentence Variety II SECTION 4: PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS 17. Paper Format 18. Capital Letters 19. Numbers and Abbreviations 20. End Marks 21. Apostrophes 22. Quotation Marks 23. Commas 24. Other Punctuation Marks SECTION 5: WORD USE 25. Dictionary Use 26. Spelling Improvement 27. Omitted Words and Letters 28. Commonly Confused Words 29. Effective Word Choice PART FOURREADINGS FOR WRITERS GOALS AND VALUESSister Helen Mrosla, “All the Good Things”All She Has, $150,000, Is Going to a University, Rick Bragg (newspaper article) *NEW*Bowling to Find a Lost Father, Mee Her (personal essay) *NEW*The Conveyor Belt Ladies, Rose Del Castillo Guilbault (personal essay) *NEW*The F Word, Firoozah Dumas (personal essay) *NEW* EDUCATION AND SELF-IMPROVEMENTBen Carson, “Do It Better!”Janny Scott, “How They Get You to Do That”Grant Berry, “A Change of Attitude” Beth Johnson, “Let’s Get Specific!” Stance, B.J. Penn (book excerpt) *NEW*Baking a Cake, Natalie Goldberg (practical advice for students) *NEW*How to Start: Yearning to Learn, Tiger Woods (book excerpt) *NEW*Why Go to College, Robert Feldman (practical advice for students) *NEW* HUMAN GROUPS AND SOCIETYKatherine Barrett, “Old Before Her Time” Amy Tan, “The Most Hateful Words”Bill Wine, “Rudeness at the Movies”Turning Youth Gangs Around, Luis J. Rodriguez (magazine article) *NEW*Reclaiming Our Home Place, Maya Angelou (personal essay) *NEW*So Here’s What You Personally Can Do to Help Solve the Climate Crisis, Al Gore (book excerpt) *NEW*A Grand Unified Theory of YouTube and MySpace, Paul Botin (Web article) *NEW* Appendix A: Parts of Speech Appendix B: ESL Pointers Appendix C: Sentence Skills Diagnostic Test Appendix D: Sentence Skills Achievement Test Appendix E: Answers to Exercises in Part III

About the Author :
John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College for more than 25 years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing instructive materials that are clear and lively. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously. While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and conveying to nonreaders the pleasure and power of books. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit Townsend Librarya collection of more than 100 new and classic stories that appeal to readers of any age.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780073371863
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: McGraw-Hill Professional
  • Height: 274 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1325 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0073371866
  • Publisher Date: 16 Nov 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 216 mm


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