A Writer's Workbook: A Writing Text with Readings

by Trudy Smoke

• ISBN13: 9780521544894
• ISBN10: 0521544890
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-10
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This is a comprehensive academic writing skills book that includes authentic readings and a study of grammar. A Writer's Workbook takes advanced-level writing students systematically from reading to writing. Along the way, students read high-interest texts; study the structure of academic essays; grapple with troublesome areas of grammar and writing mechanics; read and analyze student model essays; and write, revise, and edit.

Table of Contents

Plan of the Book	vi
Author's Acknowledgements	xv
Introduction	xvii
To the Instructor	xvii
To the Student	xx
Unit One Language	1	(60)
Destination: College, U.S.A.	2	(16)
How to Be a Successful Language Learner	18	(24)
The Education of Berenice Belizaire	42	(19)
Unit Two Culture	61	(56)
Cultural Identity vs. Ethnic Fashions	62	(17)
A Global Analysis of Culture	79	(19)
The All-American Slurp	98	(19)
Unit Three Work	117	(50)
Age and Youth	118	(15)
Job Satisfaction	133	(17)
Village Is More Global, Language Is More Vital	150	(17)
Unit Four Roots	167	(61)
Back, but Not Home	168	(13)
Legacies	181	(30)
The Man to Send Rain Clouds	211	(17)
Peer Response Form	228	(3)
Appendix	231	(4)
Answer Key	235	(12)
Credits	247	(1)
Index	248