Writing to Learn 3: Student Book From Paragraph to Essay

by Spaventa, Lou; Spaventa, Marilynn

• ISBN13: 9780072307559
• ISBN10: 0072307552
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-08
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Writing to Learn is a process and product-based writing series that spans four levels - beginning, low-intermediate, high-intermediate, and advanced. The goal of the series is is to take students from writing good sentences to writing clear and effective essays. Each book makes use of students' skills and experiences to generate writing topics.Each of the Writing to Learn texts is designed to help students improve their writing for academic and vocational success. Throughout the series an emphasis is placed on vocabulary acquisition, grammar practice, and writing, editing, rewriting, and journaling skills.Writing to Learn, From Paragraph to Essay is appropriate for intermediate to high-intermediate students and is the bridge between paragraph and essay writing. Students work on organizing, writing, and editing short essays.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
To the Instructor	xi
Acknowledgments	xiv
To the Student	xv
Myself and Others	2	(26)
Prewriting	2	(7)
Meeting your classmates	3	(1)
Like me list	3	(1)
Peak experiences	4	(1)
``Cooking with Mattie''	5	(2)
Mattie and C. B.	7	(1)
What makes a person good?	8	(1)
Structure	9	(7)
Recognizing adjective clauses, reduced adjective clauses, and prepositional phrases	9	(2)
``Living in Tongues''	11	(1)
Combining sentences with adjective clauses	12	(1)
Building adjective clauses	13	(1)
Writing adjective clauses about yourself	14	(1)
Reducing adjective clauses	15	(1)
Writing and Editing	16	(11)
Time line for an autobiography	16	(1)
``This Is Me''	17	(3)
Writing summary statements	20	(1)
Interviewing Carl Rogers	21	(1)
Preparing an autobiography	22	(1)
Writing your thesis statement	23	(1)
Organizing the body of your essay	23	(2)
Writing your first draft	25	(1)
Peer editing	25	(2)
Journal Assignment	27	(1)
Family and Relationships	28	(28)
Prewriting	28	(9)
Family trees	29	(2)
In our family---a quick-write	31	(1)
My favorite relative	32	(1)
Sociogram	33	(1)
``When You Are Old''	34	(2)
When I am old	36	(1)
Structure	37	(8)
Recognizing noun clauses	38	(1)
Creating sentences with noun clauses	38	(1)
Creating sentences with noun clauses introduced by that and noun phrases with infinitives and gerunds	39	(1)
More practice with reported speech	40	(1)
``The Borzhomi Nose''	41	(2)
Recording a conversation	43	(1)
Conversation exchange	44	(1)
Writing and Editing	45	(10)
What you remember	45	(1)
``Hands That Held a Family Together''	46	(2)
A letter to Grandma---quick-write	48	(1)
Considering the tone of the essay	49	(1)
Deciding on a topic for your essay	50	(2)
Strengthening writing with details	52	(1)
Organizing to write	53	(1)
Writing your essay	54	(1)
Revising your essay	54	(1)
Journal Assignment	55	(1)
Education	56	(26)
Prewriting	56	(10)
Making lists	56	(2)
Talking about school	58	(1)
Shirley's pledge	58	(2)
Quick-write	60	(1)
Visualizing a classroom	61	(2)
Describing your classroom	63	(2)
Remembering your school experience	65	(1)
Structure	66	(6)
How to be a good college teacher	66	(1)
``A Guide to Teaching''	67	(2)
Understanding conditional sentences	69	(2)
Facts about the education system in your country	71	(1)
Predictive statements about student learning	72	(1)
Imaginative statements	72	(1)
Writing and Editing	72	(9)
``Salam, Shalom''	72	(2)
Quoting your classmates	74	(1)
Writing with quotations	75	(3)
Developing a paragraph into an essay	78	(1)
Writing on language education	79	(1)
Peer editing	79	(2)
Journal Assignment	81	(1)
Work	82	(22)
Prewriting	82	(7)
Your ideas about work	82	(1)
Jobs for the future	83	(1)
From ``Amish Economics''	83	(3)
Modern society or traditional society	86	(2)
Contrasting work in the past and work in the present	88	(1)
Structure	89	(8)
Writing a paragraph using contrasting time	89	(1)
From ``Whistling while we work''	90	(3)
Shifting back in time	93	(1)
The job interview---verb tenses in questions	94	(1)
Rewriting interview notes	95	(1)
Using verb tenses correctly---editing	95	(2)
Writing and Editing	97	(6)
Brainstorming new jobs	97	(1)
Playing computer games---is it a real job?	97	(2)
Writing questions	99	(1)
Designing a job	100	(1)
Brainstorming essay titles	100	(1)
Writing your essay---the introduction	101	(1)
Writing your essay---the body	102	(1)
Writing your essay---the conclusion	102	(1)
Journal Assignment	103	(1)
Leisure and Recreation	104	(22)
Prewriting	104	(8)
What kind of music do you like?	104	(2)
``That High, Lonesome Sound''	106	(2)
Kinds of leisure activities	108	(1)
Classifying activities	109	(1)
Creating a leisure profile	109	(3)
Structure	112	(6)
Reviewing adjective clauses	113	(2)
Editing adjective clauses---restrictive versus nonrestrictive	115	(1)
Identifying sentence fragments	116	(1)
Correcting fragments	117	(1)
Identifying run-on sentences and comma splices	117	(1)
Correcting run-on sentences	118	(1)
Writing and Editing	118	(7)
Formality versus informality	118	(2)
Adjusting to the L. A. lifestyle	120	(2)
Lifestyle differences	122	(1)
Comparing and contrasting lifestyles	123	(1)
Reading aloud for corrections	124	(1)
My best sentence	124	(1)
Journal Assignment	125	(1)
The Natural World	126	(25)
Prewriting	126	(9)
Things change	126	(2)
From ``Millennial Mayhem''	128	(2)
Predicting the future	130	(2)
Positives and negatives about the natural world	132	(1)
An imaginary journey---freewriting	133	(2)
Structure	135	(8)
Recognizing complex sentences	135	(2)
Creating complex sentences	137	(2)
Combining sentences with transitions	139	(1)
Punctuating sentences correctly	140	(1)
Varying sentence structure	141	(2)
Finding writing with varying styles	143	(1)
Writing and Editing	143	(7)
Top 10 forecasts from Outlook 2000	143	(2)
``Ocean Extinction''	145	(2)
Specialized vocabulary	147	(1)
Researching ideas	148	(1)
Expanding research	148	(1)
Organizing a scientific essay	149	(1)
Creating a reference page	149	(1)
Providing feedback on content	149	(1)
Journal Assignment	150	(1)
Appendix I: Parts of Speech	151	(2)
Appendix II: The Traditional Twelve Verb Tenses	153	(4)
Appendix III: Verb + Gerund and Verb + Infinitive	157	(1)
Appendix IV: Simple Sentences, Compound Sentences, and Complex Sentences	158	(3)
Appendix V: Basic Rules of Capitalization	161	(1)
Appendix VI: Basic Rules of Punctuation	162	(2)
Appendix VII: Titles	164	(1)
Appendix VIII: Form of Paragraphs and Essays	165	(2)
Appendix IX: Suggestions for Success in College Writing Classes	167	(1)
Appendix X: Journal Writing	168	(1)
Glossary	169	(3)
Credits	172