Synopses & Reviews
Since its first edition, this text has been used successfully by teachers in composition classes around the world. The second edition continues to engage students in the process approach to writing. Each unit focuses on thinking, prewriting, sharing (revision based on student feedback), and editing for grammar and punctuation. The students' own paragraphs become the central focus of the writing class, and emphasis on verb tenses in each unit makes the book ideal for use in a grammar class.
New to this edition:
-- Thought-provoking photographs and questions activate students' prior knowledge and allow for self-expression.
-- Talk to a Classmate -- Pair work in the form of questions and answers helps students develop ideas for writing.
-- Expanding -- Additional supplementary writing exercises allow students to go beyond the unit being studied.
-- Think About Vocabulary -- Word clusters, charts, and puzzles allow students to think about words to use in their writing.
Synopsis
Share Your Paragraph engages students in the process approach to writing. Each unit focuses on thinking, prewriting, sharing, and editing for grammar and punctuation. The students¿ own paragraphs become the central focus of the writing class, and emphasis on verb tenses in each unit makes the book ideal for use in a grammar class.
Table of Contents
Paragraph 1 Write about yourself.
Focus: Present tense (be)
Exercises: Verbs
Punctuation and capitalization
Paragraph 2 Write about your father, or an older male relative.
Focus: Present tense (be)
Exercises: Pronouns
Punctuation and capitalization
Paragraph 3 Write about your classmate.
Focus: Present tense (be)
Exercises: Verbs and pronouns
Compound sentences
Adjectives and nouns
Paragraph 4 Write about the place where you live.
Focus: Present tense (have)
Exercises: Verbs
Punctuation and capitalization
Paragraph 5 Write about your home city and its people.
Focus: Present tense (have and be)
Exercises: Verbs
Compound
Articles
Paragraph 6 Write about what your classmate’s mother does every
day.
Focus: Present tense (third-person singular)
Exercises: Verbs
Punctuation and capitalization
Prepositions of time
Sentence order
Paragraph 7 Write about what you are doing right now.
Focus: Present continuous tense
Exercises: Verbs
Prepositions of space and direction
Paragraph 8 Write about your best or worst former teacher.
Focus: Past tense (be)
Exercises: Verbs
Punctuation and capitalization
Compound sentences
Pronouns
Paragraph 9 Write about what you did last
weekend, or on a recent trip.
Focus: Past tense (regular and irregular verbs)
Exercises: Complex sentences
Prepositions
Paragraph 10 Write about your classmate’s best childhood friend.
Focus: Past tense (irregular verbs)
Exercises: Pronouns
Punctuation and verbs
Articles
Paragraph 11 Write about how you spent a special summer.
Focus: Past tense (irregular verbs)
Exercises: Prepositions
Subordinate clauses
Sentence order
Paragraph 12 Write about you most frightening experience.
Focus: Past Continuous tense
Exercises: Verbs
Punctuation, capitalization, and articles
Complex sentences
Paragraph 13 Write about a funny experience you had.
Focus: Past continuous tense
Exercises: Prepositions
Paragraph 14 Write about what you are going to do this weekend.
Focus: Future tense (going to)
Exercises: Prepositions
Subordinate clause
Paragraph 15 Describe how the world will be in 2100
Focus: Future tense (will)
Exercises: That clauses
Punctuation and capitalization
Verbs
Paragraph 16 Write about your last three months.
Focus: Present perfect tense
Exercises: Verbs
Prepositions and articles
Compound sentences
Paragraph 17 Write about what makes a good person.
Focus: Must
Exercises: Verbs
Transitions
Punctuation and capitalization
Paragraph 18 Write about your country.
Focus: Should
Exercises: Prepositions and articles
Subordinate clauses
Adjectives
Paragraph 19 Write about the person you want to marry, or to whom you are married.
Focus: Should and Must
Exercises: Articles
Relative clauses
Punctuation and capitalization
Paragraph 20 Write about your life at age 75.
Focus: Would like
Exercises: Verbs
Punctuation and capitalization
Infinitives