Blueprints 1 - Composition Skills for Academic Writing

List of contents

1. The Paragraph
2. Descriptive Paragraphs
3. Process Paragraphs
4. Definition Paragraphs
5. Comparison/Contrast Paragraphs
6. Introducing the Essay

About the author

Dr. Keith Folse is a Professor of TESOL at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of 57 textbooks on a variety of subjects from grammar to vocabulary to composition, including five best-selling books in the Great Writing series by National Geographic Learning.Elena Vestri Solomon is currently a lecturer in the B. Ed program for future teachers in Abu Dhabi's Emirates College for Advanced Education. She received her MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of South Florida, Tampa, and has lived and worked in Italy, Spain, France, Hungary, Romania, Uzbekistan, and UAE. She has authored/co-authored over a dozen academic textbooks in composition, grammar, and listening/speaking/note-taking.

Summary

The Blueprints 1 & 2 academic writing series offers a unique combination of instruction in the rhetorical processes as well as paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing. This multi-layered approach helps students develop good writing habits and avoid the pitfalls of plagiarism. Students receive ample opportunities to write at the sentence, paragraph, and essay levels.

Product details

• Authors: Folse, Keith Folse, Keith S. Folse, Keith S. (EDT)/ Mahnke Folse, M. Mahnke, M. Kathleen Mahnke, Elena Solomon, Elena Vestri Solomon, Lorraine Williams
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2003
• EAN: 9780618144099
• ISBN: 978-0-618-14409-9
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 267 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Heinle Reading Library: Biogra; Blueprints; Heinle Reading Library: Biogra
• Subject: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools