Synopses & Reviews
An updated and revised edition of Trudy Smoke's classic comprehensive writing skills book. Trudy Smoke's classic comprehensive writing text takes students step-by-step through the writing process and contains instruction in grammar, mechanics, and rhetorical forms. It prepares students for the reading and writing assignments they will encounter in their academic courses. This fourth edition features many new high-interest readings from a variety of genres, including personal, academic, journalistic, and fictional writing.
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A Writer (TM)s Workbook Fourth edition is a comprehensive academic writing skills book for advanced-level students that includes authentic readings and a study of grammar. A Writer's Workbook takes advanced-level writing students systematically from reading to writing. Along the way, students read high-interest texts; study the structure of academic essays; grapple with troublesome areas of grammar and writing mechanics; read and analyze student model essays; and write, revise, and edit.
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A reading-based writing skills book for the student preparing for academic writing.
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Writers at Work is a high-beginning/low-intermediate text aimed at preparing students to write academic English.
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A Writer's Workbook is a thematically arranged writing text that explores the connections between reading, critical thinking, and writing strategies.
Synopsis
Writers at Work is a high-beginning/low-intermediate text aimed at preparing students to write academic English.
Synopsis
This is a comprehensive academic writing skills book that includes authentic readings and a study of grammar. A Writer's Workbook takes advanced-level writing students systematically from reading to writing. Along the way, students read high-interest texts; study the structure of academic essays; grapple with troublesome areas of grammar and writing mechanics; read and analyze student model essays; and write, revise, and edit.
Table of Contents
UNIT ONE: FOCUSING ON LANGUAGE; Chapter One: Succeeding in School; Chapter Two: Learning a Language; Chapter Three: Struggling to Communicate; UNIT TWO: REFLECTING ON CULTURE; Chapter Four: Fashioning Differences; Chapter Six: Learning from One Another; Lensey Namioka, The All-American Slurp; UNIT THREE: CONSIDERING OUR ROLES; Chapter Seven: Chapter Eight: Comparing the Sexes; Chapter Nine: Aging and Living; UNIT FOUR: CONCENTRATING ON WORK; Chapter Ten: Looking at the Economy; Chapter Eleven: Enjoying Your Work; Chapter Twelve: UNIT FIVE: THINKING ABOUT ROOTS; Chapter Thirteen: Returning Home; Chapter Fourteen: Focusing on Behavior; Chapter Fifteen: Responding to Change.