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Student CD-ROM for Use with English Skillsby John Langan
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The English Skills Student CD-ROM contains all of the student material from the online learning center, video clips from the Annenberg telecourse Writers Interact in which instructors and students discuss various writing topics, plus Learning Styles Assessment Software that lets students determine how they learn and what study strategies will best serve them. Synopsis:This combined rhetoric/worktext is designed for basic skills writing courses that focus on the paragraph. English Skills features John Langan's clear explanations and his wide range of motivating activities and assignments that reinforce the Four Bases of Effective Writing: Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills. About the AuthorJohn 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 textbook on both reading and writing, he enjoys the challenge of developinging 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 Collee. He also spent a year writing fiction. Table of ContentsPART ONE: Basic Principles of Effective WritingChapter 1: An Introduction to WritingAn Overview: How the Book is OrganizedWriting as a SkillKeeping a JournalChapter 2: The Writing ProcessWriting a First DraftEditingChapter 3: The First and Second Steps in WritingStep 2: Support the Point with Specific EvidenceChapter 4: The Third Step in WritingPractice in Organizing and Connecting Specific EvidenceStep 4: Write Clear, Error-Free SentencesEditing SentencesChapter 6: Four Bases for Revising WritingBase 2: SupportBase 4: Sentence SkillsPART TWO: Paragraph DevelopmentChapter 7: Introduction to Paragraph DevelopmentImportant Considerations in Paragraph DevelopmentUsing Peer ReviewChapter 8: Providing ExamplesChapter 10: Examining Cause and EffectChapter 12: Defining a TermChapter 14: Describing a Scene or PersonChapter 16: Arguing a PositionPART THREE: Essay DevelopmentChapter 18: Writing the EssayImportant Points About the EssayPlanning the EssayPART FOUR: Special SkillsChapter 19: Developing Key Study SkillsChapter 21: Writing a SummaryChapter 23: Writing a Resume and Job Application LetterChapter 25: Writing a Research PaperPreviewGrammarChapter 27: Sentence SenseChapter 29: Run-onsChapter 31: Irregular VerbsChapter 33: Pronoun Agreement and ReferenceChapter 35: Adjectives and AdverbsChapter 37: Dangling ModifiersChapter 38: Paper FormatChapter 40: Numbers and AbbreviationsChapter 41: ApostropheChapter 43: CommaWord UseChapter 46: Improving SpellingChapter 48: Commonly Confused WordsPracticeChapter 51: Editing TestsCHAPTER 52: ESL PointersPreviewCharts | |||||||||
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