Pathways : Writing Scenarios (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card)

by McWhorter, Kathleen T.

• ISBN13: 9780205729623
• ISBN10: 0205729622
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Pathways: Writing Scenarios teaches sentence and paragraph writing skills through themed writing scenarios, a focus on ideas over rules, and connecting grammar and the writing process. Covering all the significant topics at this level, the text also provides comprehensive and integrated coverage of the reading-writing connection (including a multicultural reader), instruction on methods of development, ESL Tips, paragraph-level editing exercises and collaborative activities, Internet activities, substantial online and ancillary support, and a four-color design.

Table of Contents

Preface

Writing Success Starts Here!

Getting Started

An Introduction to Writing Writing

What Writing Is and Is Not

The Writing Process: An Overview Beginning Tips for Generating Ideas

Writing Paragraphs

Writing Essays

Sample Student Essay: College and the Marine Corps Practical

Advice for Getting Started Peer Review Writing

Success Tip 1: Participating in Your Writing Class Chapter Review and Practice

Chapter Review Internet Activities

The Reading-Writing Connection Exploring the Reading-Writing Connection Previewing before Reading

Reading: ldquo;Ways to Improve Your Memory,rdquo;

Reading for Meaning How to Handle Difficult Readings

How to Record Your Thinking: Annotation Using Idea Maps

How to Write about a Reading Writing

Success Tip 2: Organizing a Place and Time to read and Write

Writing About A Reading Thinking before Reading

Reading: What Really Scares Us?

Getting Ready to Write

Reviewing the Reading

Examining the Reading: Using an Idea Map to Review the Reading Strengthening Your Vocabulary

Reacting to Ideas: Discussion and Journal Writing Writing about the Reading Paragraph Options Essay Options

Chapter Review and Practice

Chapter Review Internet Activities

Expanding Your Vocabulary Vocabulary

Why Improve Your Vocabulary?

Get the Right Tools

Use Context Clues to Figure Out

Unfamiliar Words Pay Attention to Word Parts Learn

Idioms Use Word Mapping to Expand Your Vocabulary Develop a System for Learning New Words Writing

Success Tip 3: Improving Your Writing Vocabulary Writing About A Reading

Thinking Before Reading

Reading: The Buzz on Caffeine, Paul Cuadro

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