Writing First with Readings

Writing First with Readings
Author: Laurie G. Kirszner
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 773
Release: 2011-12-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0312542569

Best-selling authors and veteran college writing instructors Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell believe that students learn to write best when they use their own writing as a starting point. In Writing First with Readings: Practice in Context, designed for the paragraph to essay course, Kirszner and Mandell take seriously the ideas and expressive abilities of developmental students, as well as their need to learn the rules of writing and grammar. Visual writing prompts that open every chapter get students writing immediately. By moving frequently between their own writing, writing models and instruction, and workbook-style mastery exercises, students get constant reinforcement of the skills they are learning. Thoughtful chapters on college success, research, and critical reading, along with high-interest essays, round out the text, making it the perfect introduction to college writing. Read the preface.

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

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 Like a Writer

Reading Like a Writer
Author: Francine Prose
Publisher: Union Books
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1908526149

In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humour and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart – to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; to look to John le Carré for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O’ Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail; to be inspired by Emily Brontë ’ s structural nuance and Charles Dickens’ s deceptively simple narrative techniques. Most importantly, Prose cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which all literature is crafted, and reminds us that good writing comes out of good reading.

How to Read Like a Writer

How to Read Like a Writer
Author: Mike Bunn
Publisher: The Saylor Foundation
Total Pages: 17
Release:
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

When you Read Like a Writer (RLW) you work to identify some of the choices the author made so that you can better understand how such choices might arise in your own writing. The idea is to carefully examine the things you read, looking at the writerly techniques in the text in order to decide if you might want to adopt similar (or the same) techniques in your writing. You are reading to learn about writing. Instead of reading for content or to better understand the ideas in the writing (which you will automatically do to some degree anyway), you are trying to understand how the piece of writing was put together by the author and what you can learn about writing by reading a particular text. As you read in this way, you think about how the choices the author made and the techniques that he/she used are influencing your own responses as a reader. What is it about the way this text is written that makes you feel and respond the way you do?

Force of Nature

Force of Nature
Author: C. J. Box
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2012-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101561157

Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+ Joe Pickett’s friend’s past comes back to haunt everyone he cares about in this “violent, bloody, and quite satisfying thriller”* from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box. In 1995, Nate Romanowski was in a Special Forces unit abroad when his commander, John Nemecek, did something terrible. Now the high-ranking government official and cold-blooded sociopath is determined to eliminate anyone who knows about it—like Nate, who’s hidden himself away in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains. And he knows exactly how Nemecek will do it—by targeting Nate's friends to draw him out. That includes his friend, game warden Joe Pickett, and Pickett’s entire family. The only way to fight back is outside the law. Nate knows he can do it, but he isn't sure about his straight-arrow friend. And all their lives could depend on it. ONE OF LIBRARY JOURNAL’S BEST MYSTERIES OF THE YEAR

Verity

Verity
Author: Colleen Hoover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 153872474X

Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us. #1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.

Assessment for Reading Instruction, Third Edition

Assessment for Reading Instruction, Third Edition
Author: Michael C. McKenna
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015-06-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1462521053

This book has been replaced by Assessment for Reading Instruction, Fourth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4157-7.