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ISE College Writing Skills with Readings John Langan

ISE College Writing Skills with Readings By John Langan

ISE College Writing Skills with Readings by John Langan


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ISE College Writing Skills with Readings Summary

ISE College Writing Skills with Readings by John Langan

College Writing Skills with Readings 10e highlights the importance of writing with a purpose by focusing on four bases of writing, unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. The four bases provide students with clear guidance on how to organize their thoughts, structure their main idea into a thesis, provide supporting evidence to their claim, and revise and edit their work into a well thought-out essay. College Writing Skills with Readings personalizes and grounds students' writing experience by placing all of its reading, writing, and essay examples within three key realms - personal, academic, and workplace (PAW) - to emphasize the importance of writing in every facet of life.

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

Contents

Readings Listed by Rhetorical Mode 0

Preface 0

Part 1 Essay Writing 1

  1. An Introduction to Writing 0

Point and Support 0

Structure of the Traditional Essay 0

Benefits of Writing the Traditional Essay 00

Writing as a Skill 00

Writing as a Process of Discovery 00

Writing as a Way to Communicate with Others 00

Keeping a Journal 00

Using Technology to Work Efficiently 00

MLA Format 00

Review Activities 00

Using This Text 00

  1. The Writing Process 00

Prewriting 00

Writing a First Draft 00

Revising 00

Editing 00

Review Activities 00

  1. The First and Second Steps in Essay Writing 00

Step 1: Begin with a Point, or Thesis 00

Step 2: Support the Thesis with Specific Evidence 00

Practice in Advancing and Supporting a Thesis 00

  1. The Third Step in Essay Writing 00

Step 3: Organize and Connect the Specific Evidence 00

Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles 00

Practice in Organizing and Connecting Specific Evidence 000

  1. The Fourth Step in Essay Writing 000

Revising Sentences 000

Editing Sentences 000

Practice in Revising Sentences 000

  1. Four Bases for Revising Essays 000

Base 1: Unity 000

Base 2: Support 000

Base 3: Coherence 000

Base 4: Sentence Skills 000

Practice in Using the Four Bases 000

  1. Developing an Essay 000

Important Considerations in Essay Development 000

The Writing Process in Action 000

A Look Ahead to Part Two: Patterns of Essay Development 000

Part 2 Patterns of Essay Development 000

  1. Description 000

Student Essays to Consider 000

Developing an Essay with Emphasis on Description 000

A Model Essay to Consider 000

READING Lou's Place by Beth Johnson 000

  1. Narration 000

Student Essays to Consider 000

Developing an Essay with Emphasis on Narration 000

A Model Essay to Consider 000

READING The Teacher Who Changed My Life by Nicholas Gage 000

  1. Exemplification 000

Student Essays to Consider 000

Developing an Essay with Emphasis on Exemplification 000

A Model Essay to Consider 000

READING Dad by Andrew H. Malcolm 000

  1. Process 000

Student Essays to Consider 000

Developing an Essay with Emphasis on Process 000

A Model Essay to Consider 000

READING How to Do Well on a Job Interview by Glenda Davis 000

  1. Cause and/or Effect 000

Student Essays to Consider 000

Developing an Essay with Emphasis on Cause and/or Effect 000

A Model Essay to Consider 000

READING Taming the Anger Monster by Anne Davidson 000

  1. Comparison and/or Contrast 000

Methods of Development 000

Student Essays to Consider 000

Developing an Essay with Emphasis on Comparison and/or Contrast 000

A Model Essay to Consider 000

READING Born to Be Different? by Camille Lewis 000

  1. Definition 000

Student Essays to Consider 000

< p style=line-height: 11.0pt; tab-stops: decimal 51.0pt; text-autospace: none; margin: 4.0pt -91.3pt .0001pt .5in;>Developing an Essay with Emphasis on Definition 000

A Model Essay to Consider 000

READING Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising by Ann McClintock 000

  1. Division-Classification 000

Student Essays to Consider 000

Developing an Essay with Emphasis on Division-Classification 000

A Model Essay to Consider 000

READING The 5 Types of Friends Worth Holding Onto for Dear Life by Shelley Emling 000

  1. Argument 000

Strategies for Argument 000

Student Essays to Consider 000

Developing an Essay with Emphasis on Argument 000

A Model Essay to Consider 000

READING Essay on the Importance of Teaching Failure by Edward Burger 000

Part 3 Researching, Writing, and Documenting 000

  1. Information Literacy 000

Using Online Sources Effectively 000

Using the Library in the Context of the Digital World 000

  1. Summarizing and Paraphrasing 000

Identifying and Avoiding Plagiarism 000

Writing a Summary 000

A Model Summary of an Article 000

Writing a Paraphrase 000

Using Direct Quotations 000

  1. Writing a Source-Based Essay 000

Planning Ahead and Taking Notes 000

Understanding How To Incorporate Sources 000

Citing Sources 000

A Model Literary Analysis 000

Model Rhetorical Analysis 000

  1. Writing a Research Essay 000

Getting Started and Creating a Schedule 000

Selecting a Topic That You Can Readily Research 000

Limiting Your Topic and Making the Purpose of Your Paper Clear 000

Brainstorming What You Know 000

Additional information

CIN126009202XG
9781260092028
126009202X
ISE College Writing Skills with Readings by John Langan
Used - Good
Paperback
McGraw-Hill Education
20180220
818
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