College Writing Skills

Name: College Writing Skills
Price: 10.19 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780073384092

ISBN-10: 0073384097

ISBN-13: 9780073384092

Edition: 7th 2008

Authors: John Langan

List price: $120.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $10.19

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

The seventh edition of John Langan's "College Writing Skills" focuses on the essay using Langan's renowned clear writing style, as well as his wide range of writing assignments and activities that reinforce the four bases of effective writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. For this new edition, John Langan has added a variety of fresh elements to his proven approach.

Book details

List price: $120.00
Edition: 7th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 7/23/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English




Essay Writing



An Introduction to Writing Point and Support Structure of the Traditional Essay Benefits of Writing the Traditional Essay Writing as a Skill Writing as a Process of Discovery Writing as a Way to Communicate with Others Keeping a Journal Using a Computer Review Activities Using This Text



The Writing Process Prewriting Writing a First Draft Revision Editing Review Activities



The First and Second Steps in Essay Writing Step 1: Begin with a Point, or Thesis Step 2: Support the Thesis with Specific Evidence Practice in Advancing and Supporting a Thesis



The Third Step in Essay Writing Step 3: Organize and Connect the Specific Evidence Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles Practice in Organizing and Connecting Specific Evidence



The Fourth Step in Essay Writing Revising Sentences Editing Sentences Practice in Revising Sentences



Four Bases for Revising Essays



Unity



Support



Coherence



Sentence Skills Practice in Using the Four






Patterns Of Essay Development



Introduction To Essay Development



Description Reading: Lou's Place




Narration Reading: The Yellow Ribbon




Examples Reading: Dad




Process Reading: How to Do Well On A Job Interview




Cause and Effect *Reading: Taming the Anger Monster




Comparison and Contrast *Reading: Born to Be Different?




Definition Reading: Television Addiction




Division and Classification Reading: Wait Divisions




Argument Reading: Ban The Things. Ban Them All




Special Skills



Taking Essay Exams



Writing a Summary



Writing a Report



Writing a




Using the Library and the Internet



Writing a Research Paper



Handbook Of Sentence Skills Grammar



Subjects and Verbs



Fragments



Run-ons



Regular and Irregular Verbs



Subject-Verb Agreement



Additional Information about Verbs



Pronoun Agreement and Reference



Pronoun Types



Adjectives and Adverbs



Misplaced Modifiers



Dangling Modifiers MECHANICS



Manuscript Form



Capital Letters



Numbers and Abbreviations PUNCTUATION



Apostrophe



Quotation Marks



Comma



Other Punctuation Marks WORD USE



Spelling Improvement



Commonly Confused Words



Effective Word Choice



Editing Tests



ESL Pointers