Writing for Life

Writing for Life
Author: D. J. Henry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Creative writing (Higher education)
ISBN: 9780133960327

NOTE: This edition features the same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf version. Books a la Carte also offer a great value; this format costs significantly less than a new textbook. Before purchasing, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a Course ID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products. For courses in Writing. Skills for writing -- process and strategy Writing for Life: Paragraphs and Essays is part of a two-book series that helps students understand the importance of strong writing skills and motivates them to become better writers. Students are encouraged to take charge of their own learning, and to transfer the strategies they currently apply to reading visuals to reading and writing text. The Fourth Edition offers high-interest topics, meaningful visuals, clear learning objectives, a wealth of examples, and ample opportunities for students to exercise their own writing skills. Also available with MyWritingLab(tm) MyWritingLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. In addition to the full eText, activities directly from the text are available within MyWritingLab. These include the written assignments, readings from the text, review exercises and more. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyWritingLab does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyWritingLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyWritingLab, search for: 0134065174 / 9780134065175 Writing for Life: Paragraphs and Essays, Books a la Carte Edition Plus MyWritingLab with Pearson eText - Access Card Package Package consists of: 0133954706 / 9780133954708 MyWritingLab with Pearson eText - Access Card 0133960323 / 9780133960327 Writing for Life: Paragraphs and Essays, Books a la Carte Edition

Writing Today

Writing Today
Author: Richard Johnson-Sheehan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 736
Release: 2018
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780134759739

How Children Learn Language

How Children Learn Language
Author: William O'Grady
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2005-01-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1139442155

Adults tend to take language for granted - until they have to learn a new one. Then they realize how difficult it is to get the pronunciation right, to acquire the meaning of thousands of new words, and to learn how those words are put together to form sentences. Children, however, have mastered language before they can tie their shoes. In this engaging and accessible book, William O'Grady explains how this happens, discussing how children learn to produce and distinguish among sounds, their acquisition of words and meanings, and their mastery of the rules for building sentences. How Children Learn Language provides readers with a highly readable overview not only of the language acquisition process itself, but also of the ingenious experiments and techniques that researchers use to investigate his mysterious phenomenon. It will be of great interest to anyone - parent or student - wishing to find out how children acquire language.

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.

The Writing Process

The Writing Process
Author: John M. Lannon
Publisher: Little Brown
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1983-01-01
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780316514378

Strategies for Successful Writing

Strategies for Successful Writing
Author: James A. Reinking
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: College readers
ISBN: 9780132320306

The authors of Strategies for Successful Writing: a Rhetoric, Research Guide, and Reader have strived to achieve the same steadfast goals that have motivated them from the beginning: create a rhetorically-organized writing guide that combines three books into one convenient and flexible teaching tool while offering students an exceptional value. By having at their disposal a comprehensive textbook that offers ample material for a full-year composition course, instructors teaching a one-termcourse can make various selections from Chapters 1-17, from whatever types of specialized writing suits the needs of their students, and from the appropriate essays in the reader. As well, because the authors believe strongly that an effective composition textbook should address students directly, they've aimed for a conversational yet clear style that invites students into the book, lessens their apprehensions about writing, and provides a model for their own prose. This style complements the authors'strong student-based approach to writing, and together they help create a text that genuinely meets student needs.

Reading Literature and Writing Argument

Reading Literature and Writing Argument
Author: Missy James
Publisher:
Total Pages: 708
Release: 2001-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780130880116

Based on the premise that literature liberates thinking, and argument disciplines it. This anthology features a critical thinking, analytical approach that readers in turn will apply to their own thought and writing processes. It introduces and explains the tools of argument, and presents reading selections centered on four enduring themes-- Individuality and Community, Nature and Place, Family and Identity, and Power and Responsibility. For those interested in literature, composition, and argumentative writing.

The Elements of Technical Writing

The Elements of Technical Writing
Author: Thomas E. Pearsall
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Technical writing
ISBN: 9780205583812

The Elements of Technical Writing concentrates on the essentials, providing students with precisely the information needed to produce effective technical documents and no more. The book is divided into two parts. Part One focuses on the seven fundamental principles of good technical writing, such as knowing one's purpose and audience, thinking visually, and writing ethically. Part Two covers the formats of reports and correspondence.

The Little, Brown Essential Handbook, Sixth Canadian Edition (MLA Update)

The Little, Brown Essential Handbook, Sixth Canadian Edition (MLA Update)
Author: Jane E. Aaron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-03-31
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780134681788

T he Little, Brown Essential Handbook offers students the essential information they need to develop basic writing, research, and documentation skills. Useful for any level of writing or discipline, it covers academic writing, the writing process, grammar and usage, punctuation, research writing, and documentation--all in a user-friendly, accessible format. The convenient pocket size, four-colour design, spiral binding, and numerous reference aids make the book practical and easy to use--a resource students will actually reference. KEY TOPICS: Academic writing; Writing arguments; Writing in the disciplines; Presenting Writing; Emphasis; Conciseness; Parallelism; Variety and details; Appropriate words; Exact words; Verbs; Forms; Tenses; Mood; Voice; Subject--verb agreement; Pronouns; Forms; Pronoun--antecedent agreement; Pronoun reference; Modifiers; Adjectives and adverbs; Misplaced and dangling modifiers; Sentence faults; Fragments; Comma splices and fused sentences; The comma; The semicolon; The colon; The apostrophe; Quotation marks; End punctuation; Other marks; Spelling and the hyphen; Capital letters; Italics or underlining; Abbreviations; Numbers; Research strategy; Tracking Sources; Finding sources; Evaluating and synthesizing sources; Integrating sources into your text; Avoiding plagiarism; Documenting your sources; MLA documentation and format; APA documentation and format; Chicago documentation and format; CSE and IEEE documentation; Writing Online; Oral Communication; Writing for business MARKET: An essentials handbook suitable for use as a student reference and text for composition courses offered at the college and university level.