Mosaics Reading and Writing Paragraphs Plus MyWritingLab -- Access Card Package

by Flachmann, Kim

• ISBN13: 9780205028009
• ISBN10: 0205028004
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-28
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Mosaicsillustrates how reading and writing are part of a interrelated process, and encourages students to discover how the "mosaics" of their own reading and writing processes work together to form a coherent whole.

Author Biography

Kim Flachmann received her doctorate in Rhetoric and Twentieth-Century American Literature at the University of Oregon. Her dissertation was a stylistic analysis of William Carlos Williams’ poetry. Kim has been teaching at California State University, Bakersfield, where she also administers the Composition Program–from remedial English through the Graduate Teaching Assistants. She has published numerous articles on rhetoric and American literature and has written six textbooks–among them a very successful college reader for Pearson (The Prose Reader, in its ninth edition) and a series of three books for Pearson, called Mosaics, for developmental English, progressing from sentence-level to paragraph-level and finally to essay work. In addition, she received the Outstanding Professor Award for 1998-99 at California State University, Bakersfield; the Rhetorician of the Year Award from the Young Rhetoricians’ Conference in 2007; and an award from California Association of Teachers of English for Classroom Excellence in 2009.

Table of Contents

Part I Reading and Writing for Success in College

Chapter 1  Reading and Writing as Critical Thinking

Chapter 2  Reading Critically

Chapter 3  Writing Critically

Chapter 4  Revising  

Chapter 5  Editing  

 

Part II: Reading and Writing Effective Paragraphs  

Chapter 6   Describing  

Chapter 7   Narrating  

Chapter 8   Illustrating  

Chapter 9   Analyzing a Process  

Chapter 10 Comparing and Contrasting  

Chapter 11  Dividing and Classifying  

Chapter 12  Defining  

Chapter 13  Analyzing Causes and Effects  

Chapter 14  Arguing  

 

Part III: Essays: Paragraphs in Context  

Chapter 15  Recognizing an Essay  

Chapter 16  How to Read an Essay  

Chapter 17  How to Write an Essay  

Chapter 18  Revising and Editing a Student Essay  

Chapter 19  Revising and Editing Your Own Essay  

Chapter 20  Writing Workshop  

 

Part IV: The Handbook

Chapter 21  Introduction   359

Unit 1  Sentences

Chapter 22  Subjects and Verbs  

Chapter 23  Fragments  

Chapter 24  Fused Sentences and Comma Splices  

Unit 2  Verbs

Chapter 25  Regular and Irregular Verbs  

Chapter 26  Verb Tense  

Chapter 27  Subject-Verb Agreement  

Chapter 28  More on Verbs  

Unit 3  Pronouns

Chapter 29 Pronoun Problems  

Chapter 30  Pronoun Reference and Point of View  

Chapter 31  Pronoun Agreement  

Unit 4  Modifiers

Chapter 32  Adjectives  

Chapter 33  Adverbs  

Chapter 34  Modifier Errors  

Unit 5  Punctuation

Chapter 35  End Punctuation  

Chapter 36  Commas  

Chapter 37  Apostrophes  

Chapter 38  Quotation Marks  

Chapter 39  Other Punctuation Marks  

Unit 6  Mechanics

Chapter 40  Capitalization  

Chapter 41  Abbreviations and Numbers  

Unit 7  Effective Sentences

Chapter 42  Varying Sentence Structure  

Chapter 43  Parallelism  

Chapter 44  Combining Sentences  

Unit 8  Choosing the Right Words

Chapter 45  Standard and Nonstandard English  

Chapter 46  Easily Confused Words  

Chapter 47  Spelling