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Now in its 10th edition, English Skills with Readings emphasizes personalized learning to address student deficits in grammar and mechanics.  Throughout the book, students are exposed to examples of writing that reflect the three key realms of their lives - personal, academic, and workplace.  Seeing these different types of writing helps students understand the critical way in which writing will have an impact on the many facets of their lives. 

English Skills with Readings continues to encourage new writers to see writing as a skill that can be learned and a process that must be explored. The four skills, or bases, for effective writing are as follows:

Unity: Discover a clearly stated point, or topic sentence, and make sure that all other information in the paragraph or essay supports th

Table of Contents
Readings Listed by Rhetorical Mode


Preface


PART 1 Fundamentals of Effective Writing
1. An Introduction to Writing
2. The Four Bases and the Writing Process
3. The First and Second Steps in Writing
4. The Third Step in Writing
5. The Fourth Step in Writing
6. Four Bases for Revising Writing


PART 2 Paragraph Development
7. Description
8. Narration
9. Exemplification
10. Process
11. Cause and/or Effect
12. Comparison and/or Contrast
13. Definition
14. Division-Classification
15. Argument


PART 3 Essay Development
16. Writing the Essay


PART 4 Source-Based Writing in the Digital Age
17. Information Literacy
18. Using Sources to Write Papers


PART 5 Handbook of Sentence Skills
Section I Grammer
19. Subjects and Verbs
20. Sentence Sense
21. Fragments
22. Run-Ons
23. Regular and Irregular Verbs
24. Subject-Verb Agreement
25. More about Verbs
26. Pronoun Agreement and Reference
27. Pronoun Types
28. Adjectives and Adverbs
29. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Section II Mechanics
30. Capital Letters
31. Numbers and Abbreviations
Section III Punctuation
32. Apostrophes
33. Quotation Marks
34. Commas
35. Other Punctuation Marks
Section IV Word Use
36. Commonly Confused Words
37. Effective Word Choice
Section V Practice
38. Editing Tests


PART 6 Readings for Writers
INTRODUCTION TO THE READINGS
GOALS AND VALUES
EDUCATION AND SELF-AWARENESS
HUMAN GROUPS AND SOCIETY


APPENDIXES
A. Sentence-Skills Diagnostic Test
B. Sentence-Skills Achievement Test
C. Answers to Sentence-Skills Diagnostic Test


INDEX
INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE


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      Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
      Publication Date: 11/03/2020
      ISBN13: 9781260570403, 978-1260570403
      ISBN10: 1260570401
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Now in its 10th edition, English Skills with Readings emphasizes personalized learning to address student deficits in grammar and mechanics.  Throughout the book, students are exposed to examples of writing that reflect the three key realms of their lives - personal, academic, and workplace.  Seeing these different types of writing helps students understand the critical way in which writing will have an impact on the many facets of their lives. 

      English Skills with Readings continues to encourage new writers to see writing as a skill that can be learned and a process that must be explored. The four skills, or bases, for effective writing are as follows:

      Unity: Discover a clearly stated point, or topic sentence, and make sure that all other information in the paragraph or essay supports th

      Table of Contents
      Readings Listed by Rhetorical Mode


      Preface


      PART 1 Fundamentals of Effective Writing
      1. An Introduction to Writing
      2. The Four Bases and the Writing Process
      3. The First and Second Steps in Writing
      4. The Third Step in Writing
      5. The Fourth Step in Writing
      6. Four Bases for Revising Writing


      PART 2 Paragraph Development
      7. Description
      8. Narration
      9. Exemplification
      10. Process
      11. Cause and/or Effect
      12. Comparison and/or Contrast
      13. Definition
      14. Division-Classification
      15. Argument


      PART 3 Essay Development
      16. Writing the Essay


      PART 4 Source-Based Writing in the Digital Age
      17. Information Literacy
      18. Using Sources to Write Papers


      PART 5 Handbook of Sentence Skills
      Section I Grammer
      19. Subjects and Verbs
      20. Sentence Sense
      21. Fragments
      22. Run-Ons
      23. Regular and Irregular Verbs
      24. Subject-Verb Agreement
      25. More about Verbs
      26. Pronoun Agreement and Reference
      27. Pronoun Types
      28. Adjectives and Adverbs
      29. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
      Section II Mechanics
      30. Capital Letters
      31. Numbers and Abbreviations
      Section III Punctuation
      32. Apostrophes
      33. Quotation Marks
      34. Commas
      35. Other Punctuation Marks
      Section IV Word Use
      36. Commonly Confused Words
      37. Effective Word Choice
      Section V Practice
      38. Editing Tests


      PART 6 Readings for Writers
      INTRODUCTION TO THE READINGS
      GOALS AND VALUES
      EDUCATION AND SELF-AWARENESS
      HUMAN GROUPS AND SOCIETY


      APPENDIXES
      A. Sentence-Skills Diagnostic Test
      B. Sentence-Skills Achievement Test
      C. Answers to Sentence-Skills Diagnostic Test


      INDEX
      INSTRUCTOR’S GUIDE


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