Overview

Writing for Life motivates students by using real-life situations to answer the question “what’s the point,” and uses unique visual interpretations of the writing process to make it accessible to developmental writers. This revolutionary text will transform the developmental classroom — and transform students’ writing and lives.  With a ground-breaking design developed in conjunction with Dorling Kindersley Publishers (DK) that makes writing, reading and thinking processes visible, Writing for Life shows the processes rather than just telling students about them. Highly graphic layouts and unique visual pedagogy empower students to transfer the learning strategies they already use in interpreting the visual world to the task of writing.  The book’s contents and features, carefully crafted and tested, reflect author D.J. Henry’s 25 years of classroom experience and her studies into learning theory research, making it a powerful, relevant tool for teaching writing.

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Author:   D. J. Henry ,  - A. Dorling Kindersley
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Longman Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 27.60cm
Weight:   1.524kg
ISBN:  

9780205727865

ISBN 10:   0205727867
Pages:   752
Publication Date:   13 January 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9780205668717
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

Table of Contents

PART I. GETTING READY TO WRITE 1. Getting Ready to Learn About Writing 2. Thinking through the Writing Process PART II. USING PATTERNS TO DEVELOP PARAGRAPHS 3. Understanding the Paragraph 4. The DescriptiveParagraph 5. The NarrativeParagraph 6. The Process Paragraph 7. The Example Paragraph 8. The Classification Paragraph 9. The Comparison Contrast Paragraph 10. The Definition Paragraph 11. Cause and Effect Paragraph 12. The Persuasion Paragraph PART III. HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY 13. Understanding the Essay 14. Effective Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles 15. Using Patterns of Organization to Develop Essays PART IV. THE BASIC SENTENCE 16. Subjects, Verbs, and the Simple Sentence 17. Compound and Complex Sentences PART V. WRITING CLEAR SENTENCES 18. Sentence Variety 19. Sentence Clarity 20. Parallelism PART VI. RECOGNIZING AND AVOIDING ERRORS 21. Comma Splices and Run-ons 22. Fragments 23. Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers 24. Subject-Verb Agreement 25. The Past Tense of Verbs 26. The Past Participle 27. Nouns and Pronouns 28. Adjectives and Adverbs PART VII. PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS 29. The Comma 30. The Apostrophe 31. Quotation Marks 32. End Punctuation: Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Point 33. Capitalization PART VIII. UNDERSTANDING EXPRESSION 34. Revising for Effective Expression 35. Improving Your Spelling 36. Mastering Often Confused Words 37. Dialects and Standard English PART IX. READING SELECTIONS DESCRIPTION: * John Haines, Snow * United States Park Services, Maya Lin's Design Submission to the Vietnam Memorial Competition NARRATION: * Sidney Poitier, from The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography * Amy Tan, Confessions PROCESS: * Clifford Stoll, Cyberschool * Mark Twain, Old Age EXAMPLE/ILLUSTRATION: * Robert Benchley, Why I Am Pale * Nikki Giovanni, My Own Style CLASSIFICATION: * Martin Luther King, Jr., Ways of Meeting Oppression * Judith Viorst, The Truth about Lying COMPARISON/CONTRAST: * Dave Barry, Beauty and the Beast * Rachel Carson, A Fable for Tomorrow DEFINITION: * Bernard Cooper, The Fine Art of Sighing * May Paumier Jones. Siena, Burnt, and Raw CAUSE/EFFECT * E. B. White, Hunger * Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies PERSUASION * Yuh J-Yeon. Let's Tell the Story of All America's Cultures * Joe Lieberman, Statement on Rating the Ratings System * Russell Simmons, The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network Statement for the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Hearing on Entertainment Ratings July 25, 2001 LAYERED PATTERNS: * Mary Sarton, The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life * Gary Soto, The Jacket Appendix A: Using Sources in Your Writing Appendix B: Writing with SUCCESS for an Essay Exam Appendix C: The Writing Portfolio Index

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