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ISE English Skills with Readings John Langan

ISE English Skills with Readings By John Langan

ISE English Skills with Readings by John Langan

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ISE English Skills with Readings Summary

ISE English Skills with Readings by John Langan

Now in its 10th edition, English Skills with Readings emphasizes personalized learning to address student deficits in grammar and mechanics. Throughout the book, students are exposed to examples of writing that reflect the three key realms of their lives - personal, academic, and workplace. Seeing these different types of writing helps students understand the critical way in which writing will have an impact on the many facets of their lives.

English Skills with Readings continues to encourage new writers to see writing as a skill that can be learned and a process that must be explored. The four skills, or bases, for effective writing are as follows:

* Unity: Discover a clearly stated point, or topic sentence, and make sure that all other information in the paragraph or essay supports that point.

* Support: Support the points with specific evidence, and plenty of it.

* Coherence: Organize and connect supporting evidence so that paragraphs and essays transition smoothly from one bit of supporting information to the next.

*Sentence skills: Revise and edit so that sentences are error-free for clearer and more effective communication.

The four bases are essential to effective writing, whether it be a narrative paragraph, a cover letter for a job application, or an essay assignment.

The new edition also includes a new and updated focus on information literacy, working with sources and writing research papers, making this a powerful and flexible text for students and instructors alike.

About John Langan

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College for more than 25 years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing instructive materials that are clear and lively. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously. While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and conveying to nonreaders the pleasure and power of books. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit Townsend Librarya collection of more than 100 new and classic stories that appeal to readers of any age. Zoi? L. Albright has been involved in diverse aspects of education for 22 years. For the last 18 years, she has been a faculty member at Metropolitan Community CollegeLongview, teaching developmental writing, composition, and literature. She has created and implemented traditional and online curricula for high school and college English and composition courses and for a variety of literature courses. She continues to research new educational theory and practices. Zoi? has most recently served as co-author of English Skills with Readings, ninth edition, and contributing author to other Langan texts. She received her M.A. from Goldsmiths, University of London; B.S. and B.A. from the University of Idaho; and A.A. from Cottey College. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Kansas. Zoi? currently resides outside Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband and teenage son.

Table of Contents

Readings Listed by Rhetorical Mode


Preface


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


PART 2 Paragraph Development
7. Description
8. Narration
9. Exemplification
10. Process
11. Cause and/or Effect
12. Comparison and/or Contrast
13. Definition
14. Division-Classification
15. Argument


PART 3 Essay Development
16. Writing the Essay


PART 4 Source-Based Writing in the Digital Age
17. Information Literacy
18. Using Sources to Write Papers


PART 5 Handbook of Sentence Skills
Section I Grammer
19. Subjects and Verbs
20. Sentence Sense
21. Fragments
22. Run-Ons
23. Regular and Irregular Verbs
24. Subject-Verb Agreement
25. More about Verbs
26. Pronoun Agreement and Reference
27. Pronoun Types
28. Adjectives and Adverbs
29. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Section II Mechanics
30. Capital Letters
31. Numbers and Abbreviations
Section III Punctuation
32. Apostrophes
33. Quotation Marks
34. Commas
35. Other Punctuation Marks
Section IV Word Use
36. Commonly Confused Words
37. Effective Word Choice
Section V Practice
38. Editing Tests


PART 6 Readings for Writers
INTRODUCTION TO THE READINGS
GOALS AND VALUES
EDUCATION AND SELF-AWARENESS
HUMAN GROUPS AND SOCIETY


APPENDIXES
A. Sentence-Skills Diagnostic Test
B. Sentence-Skills Achievement Test
C. Answers to Sentence-Skills Diagnostic Test


INDEX
INSTRUCTOR'S GUIDE


Additional information

NPB9781260570403
9781260570403
1260570401
ISE English Skills with Readings by John Langan
John Langan
New
Paperback
McGraw-Hill Education
2020-03-11
N/A
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