College Writing Skills, media edition, with Student CD-ROM and User's Guide

by Langan, John

• ISBN13: 9780072836509
• ISBN10: 0072836504
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-09
• Publisher: MCG

Summary

"I long ago lost count of the number of instructors who have told me that the Four Bases really work. When you explain the four bases to students and make the bases really clear with a lot of activities, students get it. You can see the light in their eyes." - John Langan.About the Book:Highly regarded and used by countless students, this effective rhetoric/handbook is ideal for freshman writing courses that focus on the essay. College Writing Skills features the successful Langan approach that focuses on the four essentials of writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills.About the Media Edition:This media-enhanced version of John Langan's College Writing Skills improves the link between the text of the fifth edition and the media supplements developed and class-tested to complement the text's pedagogy. Each of the 45 chapters features new icons that let students and instructors know where to find additional exercises, extended explanations, and supplemental resources for the topic at hand.

Table of Contents

Essay Writing

An Introduction To Writing

Point and Support

Structure of the Traditional Essay

Benefits of Writing the Traditional Essay

Writing as a Skill

Writing as a Process of Discovery

Journal Writing

Word Processing

Final Activities

The Writing Process

Prewriting

Writing a First Draft

Revision

Final Activities

The First And Second Steps In Essay Writing

Begin with a Point, or Thesis

Support the Thesis with Specific Evidence

Practice in Advancing and Supporting a Thesis

The Third And Fourth Steps In Essay Writing

Organize and Connect the Specific Evidence

Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles

Practice in Organizing and connecting Specific Evidence

The Fourth Step In Essay Writing

Revising Sentences

Editing Sentences

Practice in Revising Sentences

The Four Bases For Evaluating Essay Writing

Base 1: Unity

Base 2: Support

Base 3: Coherence

Base 4: Sentence Skills

Practice in Using the Four Bases

Patterns Of Essay Development

Introduction To Essay Development

Description

Narration

Examples

Process

Cause And Effect

Comparison And Contrast

Definition

Division And Classification

Argumentation

Special Skills

Taking Essay Exams

Preparing A Summary

Writing A Report

Writing A Resume And Job Application Letter

Using The Library And The Internet

Writing A Research Paper

Handbook Of Sentence Skillsgrammar

Subjects and Verbs

Fragments

Run-Ons

Regular and Irregular Verbs

Subject-Verb Agreement

Additional Information About Verbs

Pronoun Agreement and Reference

Pronoun Types

Adjectives and Adverbs

Misplaced Modifiers

Dangling Modifiers Mechanics

Manuscript Form

Capital Letters

Numbers and Abbreviations Punctuation

Apostrophe

Quotation Marks

Comma

Other Punctuation Marks

Word Use

Spelling Improvement

Commonly Confused Words

Effective Word Choice

Editing Tests

ESL Pointers

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