Quatrième de couverture
Good writing is a network of skills that can be taught, practiced, and mastered. These books present paragraph development and composition skills in clear, teachable steps. Each book offers students dependable strategies as well as opportunities to bring their own ideas and talent to the writing process.
Important features of the series:
- Presents important organizational principles of good academic writing, including topic sentences, maintaining unity and coherence, making and supporting a point, providing clear transitions, and writing clear introductory and concluding paragraphs.
- Shows students how to apply these organizational principles to major rhetorical forms: classification, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, problem and solution, writing a summary, personal expression, and essays for college applications.
- Offers extensive practice in every step of thewriting process, including prewriting, drafting, revision, and editing.
- Provides individual practice on additional topics in ¿On Your Own¿ sections.
- Offers effective error correction and editing practice in ¿You Be the Editor¿ sections.
Quatrième de couverture
Set your students on the right course with the second edition of Get Ready to Write, by Karen Blanchard and Christine Root. With its student-centered approach, this edition teaches beginning students the basic composition skills required for good writing and helps them to become confident and independent writers.
Features
- Model paragraphs that illustrate organizing elements such as topic sentences, supporting details, and signal words
- Guided practice in writing sentences and paragraphs
- New Real Life Writing tasks provide relevant writing contexts
- Editing exercises that help students develop accuracy
- New Appendices: the English alphabet, penmanship, punctuation rules, and irregular verbs.
The Ready to Write series also includes Ready to Write and Ready to Write More.
Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
