Writing Talk Writing Sentences and Paragraphs with Readings with NEW MyLab Writing

by Winkler, Anthony C; McCuen-Matherell, Jo Ray

• ISBN13: 9780321907943
• ISBN10: 0321907949
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2012-11-16
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

For Developmental writing courses

 

There are many different ways in which developing writers learn. Winkler and McCuen-Matherall have created a writing series that takes into account many of the known difficulties that developing writing students have with English language skills and strategies. Writing Talk: Sentences & Paragraphs with Readings, 5/e is the first book in a series of two. This text reaches more students by providing the most varied practice exercises of any writing text.  Every unit contains Practice Exercises, Unit Tests, Unit Talk-Write Exercises, Unit Collaborative Assignments, Unit Writing Assignments, and Photo Writing Assignments. These diverse exercises will help students of all types (including visual, audio, and collaborative learners) learn and retain the material.

 

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Table of Contents

* EVERY UNIT ENDS WITH UNIT TEST, UNIT TALK-WRITE ASSIGNMENT, UNIT COLLABORATIVE ASSIGNMENT, UNIT WRITING ASSIGNMENT, & PHOTO WRITING ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS REASON IT IS ONLY LISTED ONCE IN UNIT 1

 

PART 1: GETTING STARTED

UNIT 1: The ESL Student and the Native Speaker           

Differences Between a Native and an ESL Student       

Pronunciation   

Homonyms      

Context           

Grammar         

Idioms

The Importance of Speaking and Writing Well  

• Unit Test         
• Unit Talk-Write Assignment     
• Unit Collaborative Assignment
• Unit Writing Assignment           
• Photo Writing Assignment

UNIT 2: Myths About Writing         

Myths About Writing   

Standard English          

           

UNIT 3: How to Start Writing          

Freewriting      

Keeping a Journal        

Brainstorming  

Clustering        

The Topic Sentence     

 

 

           

PART 2 THE SENTENCE   

UNIT 4:The Basic Sentence            

Subject and Verb        

Kernel Sentences         

Sentences Worded as Questions          

Prepositional Phrases   

Action Verbs and Linking Verbs          

Helping Verbs

Verbals           

Compound Subjects and Verbs           

           

UNIT 5: Building Sentences            

Dependent and Independent Clauses    

Three Basic Sentence Types    

Sentence Variety         

           

UNIT 6: Avoiding Non-Sentences   

Sentence Fragments     

Avoiding Sentence Fragments  

Run-on Sentences        

           

UNIT 7: VERBS–An Overview     

Twelve Tenses

Present Tense Endings

Past Tense Endings      

Problems with -ing verbs          

Difficult Verbs: Be, Have, Do   

Helping verbs

           

UNIT 8: Regular and Irregular Verbs         

Regular Verbs

Irregular Verbs            

Problem Verbs: Lie/Lay, Sit/Set, Rise/Raise     

Lie/Lay, Sit/Set, Rise/Raise: Does It Really Matter?      

           

UNIT 9: Subject-Verb Agreement   

Do, Does, Doesn’t, Don’t, Was, Were, Wasn’t, Weren’t         

Indefinite Pronouns      

Phrases Between a Subject and Its Verb          

Sentences Beginning with There/Here   

Questions        

Compound Subjects Joined by And, Or, Either/Or, or Neither/Nor      

Who, Which, and That

           

UNIT 10: Problems with Verbs        

Shifts in Tense

Would Have, Could Have, Should Have, and Must Have         

Double Negatives        

Active and Passive Voice         

           

UNIT 11: Using Pronouns Correctly           

Antecedent Problems   

Agreement Problems   

Indefinite Pronouns

Sexist Use of Pronouns            

Shifting Point of View  

           

UNIT 12: Pronoun Problems            

Case Problems            

Pesky Pronouns           

           

UNIT 13: Using Adjectives and Adverbs    

Adjectives and Adverbs           

Comparisons   

Using Superlatives       

Using Good/Well and Bad/Badly         

This/That and These/Those      

           

UNIT 14: Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers        

Dangling Modifiers       

Misplaced Modifiers    

           

UNIT 15: Using Prepositions           

Multiword Prepositions            

Prepositional Phrases   

Prepositions in Commonly Used Expressions    

Frequently Misused Prepositions          

Frequently Misused Prepositional Expressions  

 

 

 

           

PART 3 THE PARAGRPH

UNIT 16: Moving from Sentences to Paragraphs  

Supporting Details       

           

UNIT 17: Writing a Solid Paragraph           

Begin with a Discussible Point  

Stick to the Point         

Prove the Point; Don’t Merely Repeat It          

Link the Sentences       

           

UNIT 18: Revising Paragraphs       

What Is Revision?        

The Revising Checklist

Using Talk Skills to Revise Your Work            

Getting Rid of Wordiness         

 

 

 

           

PART 4 MECHANICS        

UNIT 19: Punctuation You Can Hear          

End Punctuation           

Comma (,)       

The Apostrophe (’)      

           

UNIT 20: Punctuation You Can’t Hear       

Semicolon (;)   

Colon (:)          

Dash (–)        

Quotation Marks (“”)   

Parentheses [()]           

           

UNIT 21: Capitalization       

Rules of Capitalization  

           

UNIT 22: How to Use the Dictionary          

Spelling           

Word Division

Pronunciation   

Grammatical Uses        

Meanings         

Usage Labels   

Origin  

Synonyms        

           

UNIT 23: Spelling Rules      

Tips for Improving Your Spelling          

Using a Spell Checker

Rules for Spelling         

           

UNIT 24: Commonly Misspelled Words     

Homophones and Frequently Confused Words            

Commonly Misspelled Words  

Words Spelled with One or Two Words          

 

 

           

PART 5: READINGS          

Help for Your Reading

An Object      

Tortillas, José Antonio Burciaga

Beautiful Music, Dana Wall

The Cello, Lorena Bruff

A Place          

*How the Lawyers Stole Winter,  Christopher B. Daly

Letter from Tokyo, Michael A. Lev

An Animal      

Snakes, Michael Ondaatje

The Revolt of the Elephants, Ingrid E. Newkirk

Sport, Jimmy Carter

A Person        

A Brotherly Bond That Beat the Odds, Bill Paschke

Two Roads Converged in a Wood, Jenijoy La Belle

Barbie Doll, Marge Piercy

An Event        

*The War  Prayer, Mark Twain

Shame, Dick Gregory

A Problem      

Señor Payroll, William E. Barrett

Talkin’ White, Wayne Lionel Aponte

An Argument

*Welcome Our Planet, Ourselves, Dominique Browning

Cheating, Iyah Romm