Synopses & Reviews
The ESL Writers Handbook is a reference work for ESL students who are taking college-level courses. Because its purpose is to provide help with the broad variety of writing questions students may have when working on school assignments, the text focuses on
English for Academic Purposes. Unlike other handbooks on the market, this books sole purpose is to address the issues of second language learners.
This spiral-bound Handbook complements a student writers dictionary, thesaurus, and grammar reference book. It would be suitable as a text for an advanced ESL writing course when used together with the companion Workbook (978-0-472-03404-8). The Handbook is concise and easily navigated; is accessible, with clear and direct explanatory language; features information on both APA and MLA styles (including a sample paper for each); and includes many examples from ESL student writers to provide realistic models.
Included as special features in the Handbook are:
• The topic selection is based on ESL writers needs as observed by the authors over many years.
• The coverage of topics is more complete than the limited amount usually provided for ESL writers in first language or L1 handbooks.
• The explanatory language is appropriate for ESL students, in contrast to the more complex and idiomatic language of other English handbooks.
• The level of detail is more manageable for ESL students, compared to what is in other English handbooks.
Many of the examples of paragraphs, essays, research papers, and exercise sentences were written by ESL students; this encourages users of this Handbook to realize that they can also become effective writers.
Synopsis
A paragraph-development text for today's students Processes and Structures: An American Language Writing Text focuses on the key rhetorical modes of writing, with an emphasis on improving paragraphs. Through structured--but fun--reading and writing activities, students will better understand and improve their writing in the genres of description, narration, process, comparison and contrast, and persuasion. By the end of the course, students will apply these skills to the essay. The textbook also provides instruction in vocabulary and grammar and offers opportunities for students to enhance their speaking and listening fluency. Readings include both fiction and nonfiction. Unlike its competitors, Writing Processes and Structures opens with a chapter that introduces students to the basic skills necessary for successful academic writing--working with Microsoft Word, vocabulary and grammar development, sentence types and their punctuation, journal-writing, and the peer review process.
Synopsis
Writing Processes and Structures teaches effective paragraph writing skills by introducing students to the rhetorical modes of description, narration, process, comparison and contrast, and persuasion. Models work with ESL and Generation 1.5 students. The multitude of activities and assignments cultivate vocabulary development and grammar skills.
The first chapter introduces students to the basic skills necessary for successful academic writing by reviewing Microsoft Word, grammar, vocabulary, sentence types and their punctuation, journal-writing, and the peer review process.
Each chapter of Writing Processes and Structures includes an introduction to the type of paragraph mode and a reading in the appropriate style.
Student models are provided in an appendix.