Advanced Grammar: A Manual for Students |
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'Advanced Grammar' introduces basic concepts of English grammar by reinforcing the fact that the infinite variety of sentences produced by every speaker is governed by a small set of rather simple rules. It presents information about history to emphasize that English is a constantly changing language, a subject that readers will find intriguing. The book provides great detail about a broad array of constructions (passive, negative, questions, tag questions, existentials, clefts, fronting, left and right dislocation, emphasis, contrast, subordination, and conjoined sentences) and gives more information about sentence structure (especially the auxiliary system) than any other book on the market. It combines all subfields of linguistics and presents them in an integrated manner so that readers can easily see how all of language is an interconnecting system. Excellent as a reference source for employees in fields where writing effectively for business is necessary.
Advanced Grammar: A Manual for Students
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Adventures in Writing: An Introduction to the Writing Process With Readings |
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A simply organized, easy to understand book about writing in three steps: prewriting, writing, and rewriting. With emphasis on the basics in grammar, punctuation, sentence building and combining, this book helps readers build the skills necessary for writing. Exercises, tests, and writing assignments provide the reader with the practice needed to write clear, grammatically correct reports and correspondence. A section devoted to technology gives the reader wordprocessing guidelines and Internet tips for writing--incredibly useful in today's fast-paced business world. Each chapter is divided into simple sections that encourage the reader to move forward with the business of writing -- each chapter states its objective and proceeds to carefully explain the mechanics of writing. Appendices at the end of the book provide easy access to reference information on basic and other punctuation, business letters, and sentence combining patterns. A perfect primer for the business writer in today's technological age.
Adventures in Writing: An Introduction to the Writing Process With Readings
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Against the Current: Readings for Writers |
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This thematically arranged anthology offers a wide-ranging and diverse collection of nonfiction readings — to introduce readers to an exciting array of social issues relevant to their lives. It then Provides Suggestions for Writing that include both analytical and creative exercises. Includes 86 readings about eleven socially relevant themes: Growing Up and Growing Older, Education, Mass Culture, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Money, Work, and Social Class, Science and Technology, Nature/The Environment, War, Protest and Change, Art and the Artist. Offers detailed Study and Discussion Questions that take readers through each reading from start to finish — asking them to notice formal as well as thematic features. For those simply seeking a collection of non-fiction readings or for those looking to improve their writing and those involved in writing workshops.
Against the Current: Readings for Writers
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All in One: Basic Writing Text, Workbook, and Reader |
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Based on the belief that those studying basic or developmental English should be reading, writing, and learning grammar at the same time — rather than separately — this book offers a wide range of materials that meet the multiple needs of basic writers. Three books in one, it provides 1) a comprehensive writing skills text and workbook for developmental English; 2) an anthology of acclaimed reading selections of enduring literary value edited and annotated for basic writers; and 3) a vocabulary builder with vocabulary exercises based on words in the readings. Exposes readers to the classics written by a diverse range of authors -- i.e., works of enduring value by acclaimed authors such as Aesop Shakespeare, Thoreau, Cervantes, and works of modern writers — such as Richard Wright, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Maya Angelou — that are likely to become classics in the future. Utilizes the “double-correction method” — integrated with coverage of the writing and editing process — to give readers an individualized means of learning from past errors. Features two chapters for ESL writers: English Idioms for ESL Writers and Advice for ESL Writers . For anyone wanting solid instruction in basic writing, remedial or developmental English, or English as a Second Language.
All in One: Basic Writing Text, Workbook, and Reader
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Along These Lines: Writing Paragraphs and Essays |
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Unlike other writing handbooks--which stop coverage of the writing process after a few chapters--this book takes readers 'with each exercise' through all the steps of generating ideas, planning, drafting and revising, and proofreading with a sample. Covers the writing process using a step-by-step approach. Includes a new chapter on Writing a Paragraph that introduces readers to a basic paragraph before beginning specific patterns. Doubles the number of proofreading exercises in each writing chapter. Offers accessible new readings on invention, technology, and adolescents who smoke. Features new material on common 'trouble spots' that includes a new chapter on Avoiding Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices, and new, separate chapters on punctuation trouble spots: the comma and the apostrophe. Takes a three-part approach to grammar reinforcement'--1) Practice: ' Exercises for simple reinforcement of the grammar principle; 2) Collaborate: ' More complex exercises to be done with a partner or group; 3)Connect: ' Application of the grammar principle to paragraphs. A ha
Along These Lines: Writing Paragraphs and Essays
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Along These Lines: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs |
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Unlike other writing handbooks--which stop coverage of the writing process after a few chapters--this book takes readers 'with each exercise' through all the steps of generating ideas, planning, drafting and revising, and proofreading with a sample. Covers the writing process using a step-by-step approach. Includes a new chapter on Writing a Paragraph that introduces readers to a basic paragraph before beginning specific patterns. Doubles the number of proofreading exercises in each writing chapter. Offers accessible new readings on invention, technology, and adolescents who smoke. Features new material on common 'trouble spots' that includes a new chapter on Avoiding Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices, and new, separate chapters on punctuation trouble spots: the comma and the apostrophe. Takes a three-part approach to grammar reinforcement'--1) Practice: ' Exercises for simple reinforcement of the grammar principle; 2) Collaborate: ' More complex exercises to be done with a partner or group; 3)Connect: ' Application of the grammar principle to paragraphs. A ha
Along These Lines: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs
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Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture |
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Following a general introduction that discusses and illustrates approaches to reading and writing about popular culture, chapters focus on: Advertising, Television, Popular Music, Cyberculture, Sports, Movies, and Leisure. The Third Edition features: New readings focusing on contemporary pop culture topics like talk shows and Latino music New Internet activities at the end of every chapter THE NEW COMMON CULTURE, Third edition, WEBSITE expands on the text by mirroring each of its chapters and providing an interactive environment with additional exercises and links to related websites. Features include: Corresponding activities for each and every reading including multiple choice, essay, and short answer questions Pop culture links expanding on the content featured in each chapter Net search feature highlighting key terms from each chapter Message board and chat room for whole-class participation
Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture
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Composition in the Classical Tradition |
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Composition in the Classical Tradition borrows from late antiquity a series of composition exercises called the progymnasmata to teach the art of persuasion. The exercises apply an understanding of the invention and composition of arguments from ancient rhetoric to a writer's own forms of persuasive communication. This book is structured to provide an effectively graded sequence of exercises, manageable at each step, from the simple to the more difficult and from the concrete to the abstract, within an explicit rhetorical framework. Learn how to compose an essay or a speech by first becoming proficient at its parts Composition in the Classical Tradition features a variety of ancient forms myths, historical episodes, descriptions, fables, proverbs, anecdotes, and speeches for readers to enjoy while learning how to write and speak persuasively. For anyone interested in composition and classical rhetoric.
Composition in the Classical Tradition
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Connections, Contexts, and Possibilities |
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Connections, Contexts, and Possibilities values thinking, reading, and writing as the prime activities of composition. This rhetoric and thematic reader centers on the purposes for writing, giving practical advice on paragraph and essay formation as it covers styles, types, and modes. The text teaches grammar in the context of the reading selections, empowering the student by helping them understand their options and choices.
Connections, Contexts, and Possibilities
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Contemporary Writer and Website Pincode |
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This visually engaging four-color rhetoric focuses on the fundamental concepts of generating ideas, organizing material, drafting and revising, while demonstrating through in-book examples, readings and writing assignments how to apply these skills in academic, workplace, and personal writing situations. Readings help hold users' interest and stretch their reading ability. Includes complete coverage for conducting online research and the latest guidelines for documenting online sources in MLA and APA documentation styles. Variety of readings are tied to a chapter's topic. For anyone interested in English composition.
Contemporary Writer and Website Pincode
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