English Skills with Readings
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- ISBN：9781259094934
- 作者：John Langan, Zoe Albright
- 版次：9
- 年份：2015
- 出版商：McGraw-Hill
- 頁數/規格：704頁/平裝彩色
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Grounded in John Langan’s Four Bases - unity, coherence, sentence skills, and support -English Skills with Readings employs a unique personalised learning plan to address student deficits in grammar and mechanics and to free instructional time for activities emphasising writing process and critical thinking. English Skills with Readings features John Langan's trademark crystal - clear explanations, along with his range of motivating activities and writing assignments that reinforce the four bases of effective writing. The new edition adds a variety of exciting new features to John Langan's proven approach, and reinstates much-requested material from previous editions.
Grounded in John Langan’s Four Bases - unity, coherence, sentence skills, and support -English Skills with Readings employs a unique personalised learning plan to address student deficits in grammar and mechanics and to free instructional time for activities emphasising writing process and critical thinking. English Skills with Readings features John Langan's trademark crystal - clear explanations, along with his range of motivating activities and writing assignments that reinforce the four bases of effective writing. The new edition adds a variety of exciting new features to John Langan's proven approach, and reinstates much-requested material from previous editions.
Features
- NEW CHAPTER Chapter 7: Writing in the Digital Age
- NEW READINGS Readings have been updated to include four new selections by diverse and well respected authors on high-interest subjects:
- “Different Is Just Different” by Suzanne Staples Fisher
- “What Students Need to Know about Today's Job Crisis” by Don Bertram from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- “Duel at High Noon: A Replay of Cormier's Works” by Kathy Neal Headley
- NEW EMPHASIS ON VISUAL LITERACY
- Personal, Academic, and Workplace Writing (PAW). Students are exposed to examples of writing that reflect the three key realms of their lives - personal, academic, and workplace. They will find models, activities, and examples for any writing situation. Icons identifying personal, academic, and workplace writing are integrated throughout the chapters.
- “THE FOUR BASES” APPROACH. Like other texts in the best-selling Langan series, Exploring Writing stresses that four principles or bases in particular are keys to effective composition: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills.
Table of Contents
PART 1 Fundamentals of Effective Writing
1. An Introduction to Writing
2. The Four Bases and the Writing Process
3. The First and Second Steps in Writing
4. The Third Step in Writing
5. The Fourth Step in Writing
6. Four Bases for Revising Writing
7. Writing in the Digital Age
PART 2 Paragraph Development
8. Exemplification
9. Process
10. Cause and/or Effect
11. Comparison and/or Contrast
12. Definition
13. Division-Classifi cation
14. Description
15. Narration
16. Argument
PART 3 Essay Development
17. Writing the Essay
PART 4 Handbook of Sentence Skills
18. Subjects and Verbs
19. Sentence Sense
20. Fragments
21. Run-Ons
22. Regular and Irregular Verbs
23. Standard English Verbs
24. Subject-Verb Agreement
25. Pronoun Agreement and Reference
26. Pronoun Types
27. Adjectives and Adverbs
28. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
29. Paper Format
31. Numbers and Abbreviations
32. Apostrophes
33. Quotation Marks
34. Commas 476
35. Other Punctuation Marks
36. Using the Dictionary
37. Improving Spelling
38. Vocabulary Development
39. Commonly Confused Words
40. Effective Word Choice
41. Editing Tests
PART 1 Fundamentals of Effective Writing
1. An Introduction to Writing
2. The Four Bases and the Writing Process
3. The First and Second Steps in Writing
4. The Third Step in Writing
5. The Fourth Step in Writing
6. Four Bases for Revising Writing
7. Writing in the Digital Age
PART 2 Paragraph Development
8. Exemplification
9. Process
10. Cause and/or Effect
11. Comparison and/or Contrast
12. Definition
13. Division-Classifi cation
14. Description
15. Narration
16. Argument
PART 3 Essay Development
17. Writing the Essay
PART 4 Handbook of Sentence Skills
18. Subjects and Verbs
19. Sentence Sense
20. Fragments
21. Run-Ons
22. Regular and Irregular Verbs
23. Standard English Verbs
24. Subject-Verb Agreement
25. Pronoun Agreement and Reference
26. Pronoun Types
27. Adjectives and Adverbs
28. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
29. Paper Format
31. Numbers and Abbreviations
32. Apostrophes
33. Quotation Marks
34. Commas 476
35. Other Punctuation Marks
36. Using the Dictionary
37. Improving Spelling
38. Vocabulary Development
39. Commonly Confused Words
40. Effective Word Choice
41. Editing Tests
