Mosaics: Focusing On Essays (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card)

For Developmental English, Basic Skills or Remedial Writing courses, or low-level Freshman Composition.   Mosaics: Focusing on Essays illustrates how the companion skills of reading and writing are parts of a larger, interrelated process that moves back and forth through the tasks of prereading and reading, prewriting and writing, and revising and editing.   Experience tells us that students have the best chance of succeeding in college if they learn how to respond productively to the varying academic demands made on them throughout the curriculum. One extremely important part of this process is being able to analyze ideas and think critically about issues in many different subject areas. Mosaics: Focusing on Essays illustrates how the companion skills of reading and writing are parts of a larger, interrelated process that moves back and forth through the tasks of prereading and reading, prewriting and writing, and revising and editing. This book encourages students to discover how the “mosaics” of their own reading and writing processes work together to form a coherent whole. By demonstrating the interrelationship among thinking, reading, and writing on progressively more difficulty levels, Mosaics promises to help prepare students for success in college throughout the curriculum.   This text ships automatically with MyWritngLab.

Table of Contents:
Part I  Reading and Writing: An Overview Chapter 1  Reading and Writing in College   Chapter2  The Reading Process Chapter3  Reading Critically Chapter4  The Writing Process Chapter5  Preparing to Write  Chapter6  Writing Effectively Chapter 7  Revising and Editing   Part II   Reading and Writing Effective Essays   Chapter8  Describing   Chapter9  Narrating   Chapter10  Illustrating   Chapter11  Analyzing a Process   Chapter12  Comparing and Contrasting   Chapter13  Dividing and Classifying   Chapter14  Defining   Chapter15  Analyzing Causes and Effects   Chapter16  Arguing     Part III  The Research Paper Chapter17  Recognizing a Research Paper Chapter18  Avoiding Plagiarism   Chapter19  Finding Sources   Chapter20  Writing a Research Paper Chapter21  Documenting Sources Chapter22  Revising and Editing a Research Paper Chapter23  Writing Workshop     PartIV  The Handbook   CHAPTER 24   Introduction   Unit 1  Sentences Chapter25  Subjects and Verbs   Chapter26  Fragments   Chapter27  Fused Sentences and Comma Splices   Unit 2  Verbs Chapter28  Regular and Irregular Verbs   Chapter29  Verb Tense   Chapter30  Subject-Verb Agreement   Chapter31  More on Verbs   Unit 3  Pronouns Chapter32  Pronoun Problems   Chapter33  Pronoun Reference and Point of View   Chapter34  Pronoun Agreement   Unit 4  Modifiers Chapter35  Adjectives   Chapter36  Adverbs   Chapter37  Modifier Errors   Unit 5  Punctuation Chapter38  End Punctuation   Chapter39  Commas   Chapter40  Apostrophes   Chapter41  Quotation Marks   Chapter42  Other Punctuation Marks   Unit 6  Mechanics Chapter43  Capitalization   Chapter44  Abbreviations and Numbers   Unit 7  Effective Sentences Chapter45  Varying Sentence Structure   Chapter46  Parallelism   Chapter47  Combining Sentences   Unit 8  Choosing the Right Words Chapter48  Standard and Nonstandard English   Chapter49  Easily Confused Words   Chapter50  Spelling     UNIT TESTS APPENDICES CREDITS INDEX

About the Author :
In her own words, this is how Kim Flachmann describes her academic life story and devotion to students and teaching:   “I am a St. Louis kid who moved west and fell in love with California. My passion is teaching writing and helping people understand its importance in our society today.   I earned my B.A. in English at Washington University in my hometown and then started teaching at Morton College in Chicago, where I began a Developmental Writing program in 1969. Three years later, I came to California State University, Bakersfield, where I currently direct the Writing Program. I enjoy teaching writing through my books and my classes.   I can’t imagine any mission more important to the success of a society than literacy. Teaching people who to understand words they encounter and how to express their most cherished ideas can relieve their personal frustration, rejuvenate their self-esteem, provide them with skills they need to succeed, and ultimately raise the quality of all our lives. I feel truly privileged to be involved in such a life-changing passion.”