Get Ready to Write: A Beginning Writing Text - Couverture souple

Blanchard, Karen; Root, Christine

 
9780201695175: Get Ready to Write: A Beginning Writing Text

Synopsis

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.

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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.
Get Ready to Write:
    Abundant interactive activities and individual writing tasks are centered on topics of personal interest.
  • Students will progress from writing sentences to guided paragraphs.
  • Students assemble their personal pieces into an autobiography.
  • Word banks supply students with useful pertinent vocabulary.

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      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.

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      9780131946354: Get Ready to Write: A Beginning Writing Text

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      ISBN 10 :  0131946358 ISBN 13 :  9780131946354
      Editeur : Pearson Education (US), 2006
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