Writing Matters! - Student Book Introduction to Writing and Grammar

by McClelland, Lorraine; Marcotte, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780072552799
• ISBN10: 0072552794
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-10
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Writing Matters!offers an introduction to academic writing for students who have relatively limited English skills, as well as those students who are somewhat proficient with spoken English but need to improve their writing. WithWriting Matters!students learn the basic rules of English sentence structure, grammar points and mechanics, and the basic organizational skills needed to write clear, well-developed paragraphs. Thus, the text is unique-all skills are integrated in one book-the material in each chapter alternates between developing the student's skills of sentence structure and those of paragraphing. Writing Matters! Is a core writing book-teachers and students using this text do not need a grammar book supplement.It is written with a one-semester, 5- to 6-hour-a-week course in mind. The text offers a variety of flexible activities that allow students to work on an individual basis, in pairs and peer groups, or as an entire class. In theSentence StructureandGrammarchapters, students concentrate on basic sentence skills, accurate verb-tense usage, subject-verb agreement, and the avoidance of run-ons, comma splices, and sentence fragments. In theParagraphchaptersstudents learn to develop the basic three-part English paragraph (Topic sentence, body, conclusion), using these specific steps in the writing process: Prewriting for ideas (clustering, listing, note-taking, brainstorming); Making an outline to plan a paragraph; Writing the first draft; Revising and editing; and Writing the final draft.

Table of Contents

Writing Matters!

Introduction to Writing and Grammar

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Paragraph

Chapter 2: Sentence Structure:The Basic Parts of an English Sentence

Chapter 3: Writing About Present Time: The Verb BE

Chapter 4: The Reason And Example Paragraph

Chapter 5: Writing About Present Time

Chapter 6: Sentence Structure: Compound Sentence

Chapter 7: The Descriptive Paragraph

Chapter 8: Writing About Past Time

Chapter 9: Sentence Structure: Complex Sentences with Time Clauses

Chapter 10: The Narrative Paragraph

Chapter 11: Writing About the Future

Chapter 12: The Example Paragraph

Chapter 13: Modals

Chapter 14:Gerunds and Infinitives

Chapter 15: Present Perfect and Present Perfect Progressive Tenses

Appendix: The Five Forms of English Verbs

Index

Correction Symbols