Real Essays with Readings

Real Essays with Readings
Author: Susan Anker
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 905
Release: 2011-12-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0312648081

Real Essays delivers the powerful message that good writing, thinking, and reading skills are both essential and achievable. From the inspiring stories told by former students in Profiles of Success to the practical strategies for community involvement in the new Community Connections, Real Essays helps students to connect the writing class with their real lives and with the expectations of the larger world. So that students don’t get overwhelmed, the book focuses first on the most important things in each area, such as the Four Most Serious Errors in grammar; the Four Basics of each rhetorical strategy; and the academic skills of summary, analysis, and synthesis. Read the preface.

Real Essays with Readings with 2009 MLA Update

Real Essays with Readings with 2009 MLA Update
Author: Susan Anker
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 946
Release: 2009-06-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0312607555

Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Real Essays with Readings is the essay-level book in Susan Anker’s highly successful series of writing texts that motivate students with their message that writing is an essential skill in college and in real life — and that this skill is achievable. Anker’s advice, examples, and assignments show the relevance of writing to all aspects of students’ lives, and profiles of former students prove that success is attainable. Like all the books in the Anker series, Real Essays presents writing in logical, manageable increments: step-by-step writing guides and a focus on the "four basics" of each mode of writing keep students from becoming overwhelmed. Real Essays maintains its emphasis on what really matters by focusing on the four most serious errors (fragments, run-ons, subject-verb agreement problems, and verb form problems). Real Essays gives students what they need to succeed in college and become stronger academic writers.

Real Essays with Readings

Real Essays with Readings
Author: Susan Anker
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-01-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1319126677

Real Essays puts essay writing in a real-world context, showing students that critical writing, reading, and thinking skills are both attainable and essential to student success. Real Essays helps students to connect the writing class with their real lives and with the expectations of the larger world. This new edition has expanded rhetorical situation coverage, emphasizing the rhetorical triangle (audience, purpose, and author), and helping students think and read more critically. In addition, even more situational writing from the workplace showcases how students will use writing beyond the classroom. Profiles of Success from former students, over forty professional and student readings (50% new), and proven step-by-step grammar and writing instruction, energize and encourage students while giving them the support they need. With a simplified design, this updated version of Real Essays helps students realize their goals and gives instructors the support and tools they need to help them reach those goals.

Reading and Writing Workout for the SAT, 3rd Edition

Reading and Writing Workout for the SAT, 3rd Edition
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2016-12
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1101920505

Everything students need to know to succeed on the English and Writing sections of the SAT revised and updated to align with the Redesigned SAT (debuting in 2016).

Reading and Writing Workout for the SAT, 3rd Edition

Reading and Writing Workout for the SAT, 3rd Edition
Author: The Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 110192067X

EXTRA PRACTICE FOR AN EXCELLENT SCORE. Get the extra prep you need for the SAT verbal score you want with this guidebook full of content review and strategies for tackling the SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing tests, plus 240+ practice questions with complete explanations. This eBook edition has been specially formatted for on-screen viewing with cross-linked questions, answers, and explanations. Techniques That Actually Work. · Tried-and-true tactics to help you focus on the important information in each passage · Tips for tackling tricky questions with elimination techniques · Essential strategies to help you maximize your efficiency Everything You Need to Know to Help Achieve a High Score. · Expert review and drills for the grammar needed on the SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing tests · Comprehensive coverage of the various reading subjects and how to best tackle them, including dual passages and history/social studies, literature, and science topics · Up-to-date information on the SAT Practice Your Way to Excellence. · Quick quizzes throughout each chapter to help assess understanding · Step-by-step walk-throughs that demonstrate tips for each type of question, from Main Ideas to Arguments · Detailed answer explanations that showcase each skill and strategy

Real Writing with Readings

Real Writing with Readings
Author: Susan Anker
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 772
Release: 2012-12-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1457634619

With efficient and engaging instruction and a consistent focus on why writing matters in the real world, Real Writing delivers a powerful message to students: Good writing skills are both achievable and essential. Concise Four Basics boxes and engaging paragraph- and essay-writing chapters present writing instruction in clear, manageable increments. The Four Most Serious Errors and other sentence-level chapters cover grammar in a lively and supportive way, with abundant opportunities for practice and application. As always, Susan Anker encourages students to connect what they learn with their own goals and with the needs and expectations of the larger world. In Profiles of Success, former students, now employed in a variety of professions, speak frankly about their experiences in school and after graduation, with examples of the types of writing their current jobs require. In this edition, Anker does far more to build students' critical thinking, critical reading, and argument skills and adds innovative new assignments, readings, and visuals. Real Writing with Readings is now integrated with LearningCurve — online, adaptive quizzing activities that reinforce what students learn in the book.

Real Skills with Readings

Real Skills with Readings
Author: Susan Anker
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1457639122

Real Skills with Readings offers practical, accessible coverage of basic sentence skills and step-by-step guidance on writing paragraphs. Like the other books in the Anker series, Real Skills motivates students with its message that writing is an essential and achievable skill. Real Skills connects engaging grammar and writing instruction with an emphasis on critical thinking and reading skills — the keys to successful writing. Real-world examples, assignments, and readings show students the relevance of writing to all aspects of their lives. Real Skills with Readings is now integrated with LearningCurve — online, adaptive quizzing activities that reinforce what students learn in the book.

A Little Life

A Little Life
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804172706

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Reading and Writing Workout for the SAT, 2nd Edition

Reading and Writing Workout for the SAT, 2nd Edition
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011-06
Genre: English language
ISBN: 0375428321

Provides drills, explanations, and practice questions covering such areas as grammar, reading comprehension, and essay question, helping students achieve higher scores through the use of test-taking strategies.

CliffsNotes CSET: Multiple Subjects with CD-ROM, 3rd Edition

CliffsNotes CSET: Multiple Subjects with CD-ROM, 3rd Edition
Author: Stephen Fisher
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 054418095X

A new edition of one of the bestselling CSET products on the market Reflects the latest changes in the California CSET Multiple Subjects teacher-certification test, which is now computer-based only The book includes diagnostic tests for every domain included in the test, detailed subject review chapters, and 2 full-length practice tests with in-depth answer explanations The CD contains all of the book's subject review chapters in searchable PDF format, the book's 2 practice tests, plus a third full-length practice test