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Becoming a writer is a journey, and "Exploring Writing: Sentences and Paragraphs" will serve as your students' guidebook every step of the way. Emphasizing both process and practice, with a focus on revision, this text will help students apply and advance their writing skills. Mastering essential sentence skills, learning to write effective paragraphs, 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:
Preface PART ONE/ WRITING: SKILLS AND PROCESS 1. An Introduction to Writing Understanding Point and Support An Important Difference Between Writing and Talking Point and Support in Two Cartoons Point and Support in a Paragraph Benefits of Paragraph Writing 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: Freewriting Freewriting: A Student Model Technique 2: Questioning Technique 3: Making a List Technique 4: Clustering Technique 5: Preparing a Scratch Outline Writing a First Draft Writing a First Draft: A Student Model Revising Revising: A Student Model Editing and Proofreading Editing Tips Proofreading Tips Editing and Proofreading: A Student Model Tips on Using a Computer Using a Computer at Each Stage of the Writing Process Using Peer Review 1. Identification 2. Scratch Outline 3. Comments Review Activities Prewriting Outling, Drafting, and Revising

About the Author :
John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for over twenty years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both subjects, he enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Glassboro State College. He also spent a year writing fiction.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780073533285
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: McGraw Hill Higher Education
  • Height: 276 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Sentences and Paragraphs
  • Width: 215 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0073533289
  • Publisher Date: 12 Feb 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 1261 gr


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