Writing for Life

Writing for Life
Author: D. J. Henry
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-11-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9780205727865

Students are motivated to improve their writing through the interaction with real-life writing situations and a visual pedagogy system that enables them to transfer familiar learning tactics to the instruction. Real-life writing situations with assignments pulled from college, work, and everyday life. Paragraph-to-essay level writing courses.

Mosaics

Mosaics
Author: Kim Flachmann
Publisher: Pearson Higher Ed
Total Pages: 819
Release: 2013-01-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0321927079

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Mosaics illustrates how reading and writing are part of a interrelated process, and encourages students to discover how the “mosaics” of their own reading and writing processes work together to form a coherent whole.

Wide Awake

Wide Awake
Author: Sara Hosey
Publisher: Longman
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: College readers
ISBN: 9780205724406

Wake Up to the world around you. Wide Awake: Thinking, Reading, and Writing Critically with MyWritingLab asks students to develop awareness of the world around them and to determine how they will participate in that world. Readings invite students to challenge accepted notions about key topics, pose complex questions about the world around them, reflect on their own experiences, and apply ideas they are learning to their everyday lives. Deliberateness and choice are emphasized in the writing processes. Teaching and Learning Experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience for you and your students. Robust resources improve student writing and help instructors track results. MyWritingLab helps students measure how well they understand key concepts and faculty incorporate rubrics into assignments and analyze class performance. Instructional support helps students develop their own writing process. Eight short chapters on the writing process provide students with just enough advice without burdening them with long narratives of detail. Readings provide models for writing, material for response, and topics for research. 0321937597 / 9780321937599 Wide Awake, Books a la Carte Plus NEW MyWritingLab -- Access Card Package Package consists of 0321963806 / 9780321963802 Wide, Books a la Carte 0205869203 / 9780205869206 NEW MyWritingLab Generic -- Valuepack Access Card

A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers

A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers
Author: Barbara Fine Clouse
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers: Strategies and Process is a brief rhetoric and reference for academic and business writers that provides over 280 specific writing strategies for solving problems at every stage of the writing process--from idea generation through editing. The book's practical approach not only helps writers with the broad challenges of planning and organization, but also with the specific challenges of style and grammar.

Workplace Communications

Workplace Communications
Author: George J. Searles
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2010-11-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780205828098

Workplace Communications is the first brief, less theory-intensive text that focuses on the fundamentals of workplace communication specifically intended for applied writing courses in community colleges and similar settings. Written in a conversational style and featuring a clean, uncluttered page layout, Workplace Communications is designed to be accessible. The high quantity of examples, illustrations, and exercises emphasize practical applications to ensure the text is user-friendly. Workplace Communications is an ideal text to bridge business communication and technical communication courses.

Understanding English Grammar

Understanding English Grammar
Author: Martha Kolln
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-01-20
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780134014180

For courses in Advanced Grammar. The essentials of English grammar, with a distinctively clear organization and user-friendly language Understanding English Grammar presents the most useful elements of both traditional and new linguistic grammar, bearing in mind that today's learners use communication tools predominantly for social purposes. Accessible to the novice reader, the text begins with an overview of English as a world language, language change, and key issues tied to prescriptive grammar and correctness. Incremental exercises provide opportunities for guided or independent practice throughout with answers at the end of the book and an updated list of further readings. The 10th Edition introduces coauthors Gray and Salvatore, who add their expertise in linguistics, creative writing, and teaching grammar and writing.

Paragraphs and Essays: With Integrated Readings

Paragraphs and Essays: With Integrated Readings
Author: Lee Brandon
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2016-02-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781305654181

PARAGRAPHS AND ESSAYS WITH INTEGRATED READINGS is the higher-level companion to SENTENCES, PARAGRAPHS, AND BEYOND in the two-book Brandon series. Instruction in this text -- comprehensive, flexible, and relevant -- is predicated on the idea that reading and writing are linked and that good writing is the product of revision and rigorous editing. The hallmarks of the Brandons' books are tell-show-engage instruction, ample demonstrations of good professional and student writing, and an abundance of reading-based, high-interest general, cross-curricular, and career-related topics and prompts. The reading-based writing presented in this book provides experience in critical thinking that enables students to write competently across the disciplines and transition smoothly to the next level of the English program. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Technical Communication

Technical Communication
Author: John M. Lannon
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Communication of technical information
ISBN: 9780205779642

Technical Communication offers complete coverage of technical communication, business communication, and professional writing in a user-friendly writing style. The topics move from basic foundational concepts, to chapters on research, visuals, style, document design, usability, and finally to specific documents (basic workplace correspondence to more complex documents, technologies, and oral presentations). The appendix includes thorough coverage of MLA, APA, and CSE (Council of Science Editors) documentation styles, and a handbook of grammar, mechanics, and usage. All descriptions of and instructions for creating technical documents are accompanied by clear, annotated model documents. In addition, graphic illustrations appear throughout the book to make abstract concepts easy to understand. Checklists and Projects provide plentiful opportunities to learn and reinforce chapter topics.