Writing Talk: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs 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   PART 1: GETTING STARTED UNIT 1: The ESL Student and the Native Speaker            Differences Between a Native and an ESL Student        Pronunciation    Homonyms       Context            Grammar          Idioms The Importance of Speaking and Writing Well   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: How to Start Writing           Freewriting       Keeping a Journal         Brainstorming   Clustering         The Topic Sentence                      PART 2 THE SENTENCE    UNIT 4:The Basic Sentence             Subject and Verb         Kernel Sentences          Sentences Worded as Questions           Prepositional Phrases    Action Verbs and Linking Verbs           Helping Verbs Verbals            Compound Subjects and Verbs                        UNIT 5: Building Sentences             Dependent and Independent Clauses     Three Basic Sentence Types     Sentence Variety                      UNIT 6: Avoiding Non-Sentences    Sentence Fragments      Avoiding Sentence Fragments   Run-on Sentences                     UNIT 7: VERBS—An Overview      Twelve Tenses Present Tense Endings Past Tense Endings       Problems with -ing verbs           Difficult Verbs: Be, Have, Do    Helping verbs             UNIT 8: Regular and Irregular Verbs          Regular Verbs Irregular Verbs             Problem Verbs: Lie/Lay, Sit/Set, Rise/Raise      Lie/Lay, Sit/Set, Rise/Raise: Does It Really Matter?                   UNIT 9: Subject-Verb Agreement    Do, Does, Doesn’t, Don’t, Was, Were, Wasn’t, Weren’t          Indefinite Pronouns       Phrases Between a Subject and Its Verb           Sentences Beginning with There/Here    Questions         Compound Subjects Joined by And, Or, Either/Or, or Neither/Nor       Who, Which, and That             UNIT 10: Problems with Verbs         Shifts in Tense Would Have, Could Have, Should Have, and Must Have          Double Negatives         Active and Passive Voice                      UNIT 11: Using Pronouns Correctly            Antecedent Problems    Agreement Problems    Indefinite Pronouns Sexist Use of Pronouns             Shifting Point of View               UNIT 12: Pronoun Problems             Case Problems             Pesky Pronouns                        UNIT 13: Using Adjectives and Adverbs     Adjectives and Adverbs            Comparisons    Using Superlatives        Using Good/Well and Bad/Badly          This/That and These/Those                   UNIT 14: Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers         Dangling Modifiers        Misplaced Modifiers                 UNIT 15: Using Prepositions            Multiword Prepositions             Prepositional Phrases    Prepositions in Commonly Used Expressions     Frequently Misused Prepositions           Frequently Misused Prepositional Expressions                     PART 3 THE PARAGRPH UNIT 16: Moving from Sentences to Paragraphs   Supporting Details                    UNIT 17: Writing a Solid Paragraph            Begin with a Discussible Point   Stick to the Point          Prove the Point; Don’t Merely Repeat It           Link the Sentences                    UNIT 18: Revising Paragraphs        What Is Revision?         The Revising Checklist Using Talk Skills to Revise Your Work             Getting Rid of Wordiness                            PART 4 MECHANICS         UNIT 19: Punctuation You Can Hear           End Punctuation            Comma (,)        The Apostrophe (’)                   UNIT 20: Punctuation You Can’t Hear        Semicolon (;)    Colon (:)           Dash (—)         Quotation Marks (“”)    Parentheses [()]                        UNIT 21: Capitalization        Rules of Capitalization               UNIT 22: How to Use the Dictionary           Spelling            Word Division Pronunciation    Grammatical Uses         Meanings          Usage Labels    Origin   Synonyms                     UNIT 23: Spelling Rules       Tips for Improving Your Spelling           Using a Spell Checker Rules for Spelling                      UNIT 24: Commonly Misspelled Words      Homophones and Frequently Confused Words             Commonly Misspelled Words   Words Spelled with One or Two Words                           PART 5: READINGS           Help for Your Reading An Object       Tortillas, José Antonio Burciaga Beautiful Music, Dana Wall The Cello, Lorena Bruff A Place          *How the Lawyers Stole Winter,  Christopher B. Daly Letter from Tokyo, Michael A. Lev An Animal       Snakes, Michael Ondaatje The Revolt of the Elephants, Ingrid E. Newkirk Sport, Jimmy Carter A Person         A Brotherly Bond That Beat the Odds, Bill Paschke Two Roads Converged in a Wood, Jenijoy La Belle Barbie Doll, Marge Piercy An Event         *The War  Prayer, Mark Twain Shame, Dick Gregory A Problem       Señor Payroll, William E. Barrett Talkin’ White, Wayne Lionel Aponte An Argument *Welcome Our Planet, Ourselves, Dominique Browning Cheating, Iyah Romm