Title:
English skills with readings
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Publication Information:
New York : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2008
Physical Description:
xxii, 794 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780073384115
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Summary
Summary
The new seventh edition of 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: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. This edition of the book adds a variety of exciting new features to John Langan's proven approach, and reinstates much-requested materials from previous editions.
Table of Contents
| To the Instructor |
| Part 1 Basic Principles of Effective Writing |
| Chapter 1 An Introduction to Writing Understanding Point and Support An Overview: How the Book is Organized Benefits of Paragraph Writing Writing as a Skill Writing as a Process of Discovery Keeping a Journal Using This Text |
| Chapter 2 The Writing Process Prewriting Writing a First Draft Revising Editing Review Activities |
| Chapter 3 The First and Second Steps in Writing Step 1: Begin With a Point Step 2: Support the Point with Specific Evidence Reinforcing Point and Support The Importance ofSpecificDetails The Importance ofAdequateDetails Practice in Making and Supporting a Point |
| Chapter 4 The Third Step in Writing Step 3: Organize and Connect the Specific Evidence Practice in Organizing and Connecting Specific Evidence |
| Chapter 5 The Fourth Step in Writing Step 4: Write Clear, Error-Free Sentences Revising Sentences Editing Sentences Practice in Revising Sentences |
| Chapter 6 Four Bases for Revising Writing Base 1: Unity Base 2: Support Base 3: Coherence Base 4: Sentence Skills Practice in Using the Four Bases |
| Part 2 Paragraph Development |
| Chapter 7 Introduction to Paragraph Development Nine Patterns of Paragraph Development Important Considerations in Paragraph Development Using a Computer Using Peer Review Doing a Personal Review |
| Chapter 8 Exemplification |
| Chapter 9 Process |
| Chapter 10 Cause and Effect |
| Chapter 11 Comparison and Contrast |
| Chapter 12 Definition |
| Chapter 13 Division and Classification |
| Chapter 14 Description |
| Chapter 15 Narration |
| Chapter 16 Argument |
| Chapter 17 Additional Paragraph Assignments |
| Part 3 Essay Development |
| Chapter 18 Writing the Essay What Is an Essay? Important Points About the Essay Essays to Consider Planning the Essay Practice in Writing the Essay Essay Writing Assignments |
| Part 4 Research Skills |
| Chapter 19 Using the Library and the Internet |
| Chapter 20 Writing a Research Paper |
| Part 5 Handbook of Sentence Skills Preview Sentence-Skills Diagnostic Test Section I: GRAMMAR |
| Chapter 21 Subjects and Verbs |
| Chapter 22 Sentence Sense |
| Chapter 23 Fragments |
| Chapter 24 Run-Ons |
| Chapter 25 Standard English Verbs |
| Chapter 26 Irregular Verbs |
| Chapter 27 Subject-Verb Agreement |
| Chapter 28 Pronoun Agreement and Reference |
| Chapter 29 Pronoun Types |
| Chapter 30 Adjectives and Adverbs |
| Chapter 31 Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Section II: MECHANICS |
| Chapter 32 Paper Format |
| Chapter 33 Capital Letters |
| Chapter 34 Numbers and Abbreviations Section III: PUNCTUATION |
| Chapter 35 Apostrophe |
| Chapter 36 Quotation Marks |
| Chapter 37 Comma |
| Chapter 38 Other Punctuation Marks Section IV: WORD USE |
| Chapter 39 Using the Dictionary |
| Chapter 40 Improving Spelling |
| Chapter 41 Vocabulary Development |
| Chapter 42 Commonly Confused Words |
| Chapter 43 Effective Word Choice |
| Chapter 44 ESL Pointers Section V: PRACTICE |
| Chapter 45 Combined Mastery Tests |
| Chapter 46 Editing Tests Sentence-Skills Achievement Test |
| Part 6 Readings for Writers Introduction to the Readings Goals and Values All the Good ThingsSister Helen |
| Mrosla Rowing the Busaul Logan |
| The Scholarship JacketMarta Salnas and Joe Davis |
| A Cool ManBeth Johnson |
| The First, the Clay, and the RockDonald Holland |
| What Good Families Are Doing Rightelores Curran |
| Education and Self-Improvement Do It Better!Ben Carson |
| M.D. with Cecil Murphey Anxiety: Challenge by Another NameJames Lincoln |
| Collier Let''s Really Reform Our SchoolsAnita Garland |
| How They Get You to Do ThatJanny Scott |
| Dealing with FeelingsRudolph F. Verderber |
| Extra-Large, PleaseDiane Urbina |
| Human Groups and Society The Most Hateful WordsAmy Tan |
| The StorytellerH. H. Munro (Saki) |
| Rudeness at the Moviesill Wine |
| Bullies in SchoolKathleen Berger |
| From Father to Son, Last Words to Live ByDana Canedy |
| A Drunken Ride, a Tragic AftermathTheresa Conroy and Christine M. Johnson |
| Reading Comprehension Chart |
| Appendix A Answers and Charts Preview Answers to Sentence Skills Diagnostic Test and Introductory Projects Charts |
| Appendix B A Writer''s Journal |
| Acknowledgments |
| Index |
