Description
Book SynopsisLynne Gaetz, a professor of English language and literature, has been teaching at the college level for over 20 years. She obtained a masters degree in English literature, as well as a TESL diploma and a college teaching diploma. In addition to the series, The Writer's World, she has written over 30 successful English second language textbooks for college-level students. Her most recent series, containing a separate skills and grammar component, is Avenues. In her spare time, she loves creating art; her preference is mixed media and oil painting. She is also an avid traveler, who intends to visit every continent.
Suneeti Phadke has a graduate degree in Russian language and literature, as well as a bachelor of education degree in teaching English as a second language. She has been teaching English language and literature to college students for more than 20 years. She started her writing career around the same time as her teaching career. Her first writing project was to develop correspondence courses for college-level English for the Quebec Ministry of Education. This experience led her to writing academic textbooks for Pearson. Currently, she is also trying her hand at other types of writing, such as short stories and poetry.
Table of ContentsBrief Contents Part I: The Writing Process
- Exploring
- Developing
- Revising and Editing
- Paragraph Patterns
- Writing the Essay
Part II: The Editing Handbook
- Nouns, Determiners, and Prepositions
- Pronouns
- Identifying Subjects and Verbs in Simple Sentences
- Present and Past Tenses
- Past Participles
- Progressive Tenses
- Other Verb Forms
- Subject—Verb Agreement
- Tense Consistency
- Compound Sentences
- Complex Sentences
- Sentence Variety
- Fragments
- Run-Ons
- Faulty Parallel Structure
- Adjectives and Adverbs
- Mistakes with Modifiers
- Exact Language
- Spelling
- Commonly Confused Words
- Commas
- The Apostrophe
- Quotation Marks and Capitalization
- Editing Practice
Part III: Reading Strategies and Selections
- Reading Strategies and Selections
Appendix 1: Grammar Appendix 2: Verb Tenses Appendix 3: Combining Ideas in Sentences Appendix 4: Punctuation and Mechanics Appendix 5: Spelling, Grammar, and Vocabulary Logs
