Recognizing that many students in the sentence-to-paragraph-level course have experienced repeated failure in the past, Stepping Stones takes a fresh approach to the core challenges of the course. The
Adventures in Composition is designed to help students develop their academic and paragraph writing skills through the examination of short stories of some well-known writers. These stories will hold
THE WRITER'S RESPONSE teaches you not only the basics of paragraph and essay writing--unity, coherence, and support--but also the basics of academic writing, making it a complete source to help you pr
For courses in Integrated Reading and Writing at the paragraph/essay level. Integrated thematic instruction at the paragraph and essay level In Concert: An Integrated Approach to Reading and
THE WRITER'S RESPONSE teaches students not only the basics of paragraph and essay writing?'unity, coherence, and support?'but also the basics of academic writing, making it a complete source for stud
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 t
The Longman Academic Writing Series helps English language students master the writing skills needed to succeed in their academic careers. The five-level series spans writing topics from composing sentences to writing research papers. Each level covers the complete writing process from prewriting to revision.Level 3 teaches intermediate students to write varied academic paragraphs and essays. The text's proven approach integrates training in grammar, mechanics, vocabulary, sentence structure, and paragraph and essay organization along with the writing process.FeaturesRealistic writing models and systematic practice empower students to write effectively in different genres.Clear explanations help students grasp and apply key concepts.Sentence structure, grammar, and mechanics instruction helps students develop key writing skills.A step-by-step approach guides students seamlessly through the writing process.Vocabulary sections help students develop language awareness and improve the qual
"Is there a secret to writing well? Yes. It is the truth. Whenever a paragraph sags, I simply ask myself, 'What is the truth here, Fatty? What are you really trying to say?'What I want to do is to wri
Everyone knows that Joel and Cat hate each other. Then they end up partners in a writing assignment. By the second paragraph they're in the thick of an all-out tandem-story war. Then Cat's dad and Joe
With a combined process and product approach, Writing to Communicate helps students progress from the basics of paragraph writing to the development to full-length essays. The text's models and exerci
Following on from Writers at Work: The Paragraph and Writers at Work: the Short Composition, Writers at Work: The Essay will teach the basics of academic essay writing to intermediate-level students.
Writers at Work: The Short Composition is based on the popular Bridges to Academic Writing, which it now replaces. The book starts where Writers at Work: The Paragraph leaves off. It teaches low inter
A poetic and raw coming-of-age memoir about Blackness, masculinity, and addiction "Punch Me Up to the Gods obliterates what we thought were the limitations of not just the American memoir, but the possibilities of the American paragraph. I'm not sure a book has ever had me sobbing, punching the air, dying of laughter, and needing to write as much as Brian Broome's staggering debut. This sh*t is special." --Kiese Laymon, New York Times bestselling author of Heavy "Punch Me Up to the Gods is some of the finest writing I have ever encountered and one of the most electrifying, powerful, simply spectacular memoirs I--or you--have ever read. And you will read it; you must read it. It contains everything we all crave so deeply: truth, soul, brilliance, grace. It is a masterpiece of a memoir and Brian Broome should win the Pulitzer Prize for writing it. I am in absolute awe and you will be, too." --Augusten Burroughs, New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors Punch Me Up to th
An introduction to writing fiction covers types of stories, plot, setting, characters, sentence and paragraph construction, and style and offers related exercises.
Praised by reviewers for its combination of academic writing and grammar, this paragraph-to-essay-level text offers a step-by-step, cumulative approach to writing an academic paper. Beginning with th
THE WRITER?S RESPONSE teaches students not only the basics of paragraph and essay writing--unity, coherence, and support--but also the basics of academic writing, making it a complete source for stud
THE PRACTICAL WRITER WITH READINGS provides you with a manageable and accessible step-by-step approach to writing, from the one-paragraph essay to the five-paragraph essay, and beyond it into the rese
In the second volume of The Story about the Story, editor J. C. Hallman continues to argue for an alternative to the staid five-paragraph-essay writing that has inoculated so many against the effects
"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph a
