Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This innovative rhetoric uses the best writing of former ESL students as well as professional essays to help students learn the process of personal and academic writing.
Synopsis
In Our Own Words guides upper-intermediate to advanced students through the writing process and features engaging essays by other students and professional writers.
Table of Contents
PART I: STARTING OUT; Chapter 1: Attitudes toward Writing; Chapter 2: Strategies for Getting Words on Paper; Chapter 3: Coping with Common Writing Problems; PART II: WRITING; Chapter 4: Experiences; Chapter 5: People; Chapter 6: Places; Chapter 7: Learning from Others: Interviewing; Chapter 8: Looking at Difference: Cultural Contrasts; Chapter 9: The American Dream: Immigrant Perspectives; Chapter 10: Claiming the Dream: Rights and Responsibilities; PART III: RETHINKING/REWRITING; Chapter 11: Revising; Chapter 12: Editing