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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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