Writing Talk: Paragraphs and Short Essays with Readings (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card)

Authors Winkler and McCuen-Matherell have created a two-book writing series that takes into account many of the known difficulties that developing writing students have with English language skills and strategies. The authors have successfully reached more students by providing the most varied practice exercises of any writing text: Every unit contains Practice Exercises, Unit Tests, Unit Talk-Write Exercises, Unit Collaborative Assignments, Unit Writing Assignments, and Photo Writing Assignments.  These diverse exercises will help students of all types—visual, auditory, and collaborative learners—learn and retain the material.

Table of Contents:
* Every Unit ends with Unit Test, Unit Talk-Write Assignment, Unit Collaborative Assignment, Unit Writing Assignment, & Photo Writing Assignment for this reason it is only listed once in Unit 1   UNIT 1: The ESL Student and the Native Speaker            Differences Between a Native and an ESL Student        A General Note to Both the Native Speaker and ESL Student   Unit Test          Unit Talk-Write Assignment      Unit Collaborative Assignment Unit Writing Assignment            Photo Writing Assignment           UNIT 2: Myths About Writing          Myths About Writing    Standard English                       UNIT 3: Purpose and Audience        Purpose            Audience          Computer Writing Assignment             UNIT 4: Gathering Ideas      Talking Writing             Freewriting       Brainstorming   Clustering         Journal Writing                             PART 2: SENTENCE BASICS          Unit 5  The Sentence             Subject and Verb         Prepositional Phrases    Action Verbs and Linking Verbs           Helping Verbs Verbals            Compound Subjects and Verbs                        Unit 6:  Building Sentences   Dependent and Independent Clauses     Three Basic Sentence Types     The Statement, the Question, the Command, the Exclamation    Sentence Variety                      Unit 7: The 20 Most Common Sentence Errors       Error No. 1 Sentence Fragments           Error No. 2 Run-On Sentences             Error No. 3 Lack of Subject-Verb Agreement Error No. 4 Incorrect Verb Forms        Error No. 5 Incorrect Forms of Do, Be, and Have        Error No. 6 Passive Voice        Error No. 7 Shift in Tense         Error No. 8 Shift in Point of View         Error No. 9 Unclear or Missing Referent           Error No. 10 Lack of Pronoun Agreement and Sexism Error No. 11 Trouble with Using Adverbs and Adjectives in Comparisons and Superlatives       Error No. 12 Dangling or Misplaced Modifiers Error No. 13 Omitted Commas, Part I Error No. 14 Omitted Commas, Part II             Error No. 15 Apostrophe Problems      Error No. 16 Trouble with Quotation Marks     Error No. 17 Incorrect Capitalization, Part I      Error No. 18 Incorrect Capitalization, Part II    Error No. 19 Misspelled Words, Part I             Error No. 20 Misspelled Words, Part II                 PART 3: WRITING GOOD PARAGRAPHS         Unit 8: The Paragraph and the Topic Sentence       Talking and the Paragraph         The Topic Sentence                  Unit 9: Adding Details           Supporting Details                    Unit 10: Sticking to the Point, Proving the Point, and Linking Sentences Stick to the Point          Prove the Point, Don’t Merely Repeat It           Link the Sentences                        PART 4: PARAGRAPH STRATEGIES      Unit 11: Narrating      What Am I Trying to Do?         How Can I Do It?        What Do I Need to Look Out For?                  Unit 12: Describing    What Am I Trying to Do?         How Can I Do It?        What Do I Need to Look Out For?                  Unit 13: Illustrating    What Am I Trying to Do?         How Can I Do It?        What Do I Need to Look Out For?                  Unit 14: Explaining a Process           What Am I Trying to Do?         How Can I Do It?        What Do I Need to Look Out For?                  Unit 1 5: Defining a Term      What Am I Trying to Do?         How Can I Do It?        What Do I Need to Look Out For?                  Unit 16: Classifying   What Am I Trying to Do?         How Can I Do It?        What Do I Need to Look Out For?                  Unit 17: Comparing and Contrasting            What Am I Trying to Do?         How Can I Do It?        What Do I Need to Look Out For?                  Unit 18: Cause and Effect     What Am I Trying to Do?         How Can I Do It?        What Do I Need to Look Out For?                  Unit 19: Arguing         What Am I Trying to Do?         How Can I Do It?        What Do I Need to Look Out For?                      PART 5: WRITING GOOD ESSAYS          Unit 20: Moving from Paragraphs to Essays           Moving from Paragraphs to an Essay    Tips for Writing Essays             Model Essay                Unit 21: The Thesis Statement         Common Faults of the Thesis Statement            The Good Thesis Statement                  Unit 22: Organizing Your Essay, from Beginning to End     The Introduction           The Conclusion             The Whole Essay          The Title                       Unit 23: Revising, Editing, and Proofreading           Revising            Editing Proofreading     Student Essay in Progress                        PART 6 : READINGS          Help for Your Reading Narrating        *Santa With a Suntan: A Jamaican Christmas, Anthony C. Winkler The Circuit, Francisco Jiminez   Describing      *A Different Sort of Time, Ian McDonald *The Story of His Life , Bart Edelman   Illustrating      So Who Makes Up All Those Signs That Tell Us What We Mustn’t Do? Bailey White Long Live High School Rebels, Thomas French             Explaining a Process How I Was Bathed, Michael Ondaatje *Foot Binding, Lisa See            Defining Bullying Broadly Defined, John Leo       “Both” or “Other”? It’s Not as Clear as Black and White, Pamela Swanigan      Classifying      Wait Divisions, Tom Bodett      The Plot Against People, Russell Baker             Comparing and Contrasting Doctor-as-God Is Dead, or Dying, Ellen Goodman       They Stole Our Childhood, Lee Goldberg         Cause and Effect        *The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery Papa, The Teacher, Leo Buscaglia        Arguing           Cure me If You Can, Michael Kingsley If I Were a Carpenter, John Balzar