Overview

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.

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Author:   John Langan ,  Zoe Albright
Publisher:   McGraw-Hill Education
Imprint:   McGraw-Hill Education
Edition:   10th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.964kg
ISBN:  

9781260570403

ISBN 10:   1260570401
Pages:   754
Publication Date:   11 March 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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 

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Author Information

Zoé 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 College–Longview, 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. Zoé 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. Zoé currently resides outside Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband and teenage son.

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