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Did you know that reading and writing skills are connected? They are, and you'll learn the hows and whys in this book. PARAGRAPHS AND ESSAYS WITH INTEGRATED READINGS offers "tell-show" instruction, many examples of good professional and student writing to serve as models for your own work, and interesting and relevant reading-based topics and prompts related to multiple course areas and careers. The reading-based writing presented in this book provides clear guidance experience in critical thinking that enables you to write competently across the disciplines and transition smoothly to the next level of the English program. The technology package includes MindTap, an interactive, online learning experience -- built on the text¿s content -- that guides you through the course.
Table des matières
Thematic Contents.
Preface.
Student Overview.
Part I: THE WRITING PROCESS.
1. The Writing Process: Stage One.
2. The Writing Process: Stage Two.
3. The Writing Process: Stage Three.
4. Writing the Paragraph.
5. Writing the Essay.
Part II: LINKING READING AND WRITING.
6. Reading for Thinking, Discussion, and Writing.
Part III: WRITING PARAGRAPHS AND ESSAYS: INSTRUCTION, WITH INTEGRATED READING SELECTIONS.
7. Descriptive Narration: Moving Through Space and Time.
8. Exemplification: Writing with Examples.
9. Analysis by Division: Examining the Parts.
10. Process Analysis.
11. Cause and Effect: Determining Reasons and Outcomes.
12. Classification.
13. Comparison and Contrast: Showing Similarities and Differences.
14. Definition: Clarifying Terms.
15. Writing to Persuade.
Part IV: USING SOURCES.
16. Writing the Research.
Part V: HANDBOOK.
17. Handbook: Writing Effective Sentences.
A propos de l'auteur
Lee Brandon is the author of twelve college English textbooks with Cengage Learning, including the best-selling series, Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond with Integrated Readings, and Paragraphs and Essays with Integrated Readings and the highly successful At a Glance series. He has served as chair of the English Department at Mt. San Antonio College, where he taught for more than thirty years and occasionally still teaches. Few authors are as active in the promotion of their books as Lee Brandon, who regularly visits schools across the country and presents at professional conferences. Lee also has to his credit poems and short stories in magazines; songs recorded and in sheet music; a best-selling musical play for elementary school students (in print with Lorenz Music); a play produced by a college drama department; a published Ford Foundation grant project; a chapbook of ballads about his youth, Oklahoma, My Sweet Sorrow; a chapbook of ballads about his experience teaching for ten years in a high-security California women's prison, Butterflies on Barbwire; and newspaper articles about travel, adventures, and whimsical experiences.Kelly Brandon is a partner in the father-son writing team for two best-selling series, Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond with Integrated Readings and Paragraphs and Essays with Integrated Readings, as well as the At a Glance books. He is a tenured professor of English at Santa Ana College, where he has taught for twenty-four years. His B.A. is from the University of California at Los Angeles and his M.A. is from the University of California at Santa Barbara. For recreation he does bodybuilding, backpacks, plays the clarinet, drives his fully restored 1953 yellow and white Chevrolet Bel Air, listens to music, and reads eclectically and voraciously.
Résumé
Did you know that reading and writing skills are connected? They are, and you'll learn the hows and whys in this book. PARAGRAPHS AND ESSAYS WITH INTEGRATED READINGS offers "tell-show" instruction, many examples of good professional and student writing to serve as models for your own work, and interesting and relevant reading-based topics and prompts related to multiple course areas and careers. The reading-based writing presented in this book provides clear guidance experience in critical thinking that enables you to write competently across the disciplines and transition smoothly to the next level of the English program. The technology package includes MindTap, an interactive, online learning experience -- built on the text’s content -- that guides you through the course.
