Albright, Zoe L.
College writing skills with readings / by Zoe L. Albright and John Langan - 11th ed. - New York McGraw Hill LLC c2023. - xxiii,792 pages. 23 cm.
Essay writing -- An introduction to writing -- The writing process -- The first and second steps in essay writing -- The third step in essay writing -- The fourth step in essay writing -- Four bases for revising essays -- Developing an essay -- Patterns of essay development -- Description -- Narration -- Exemplification -- Process -- Cause and effect -- Comparison and/or contrast -- Reading -- Definition -- Division-classification -- Argument -- Researching, writing, and documenting -- Information literacy -- Summarizing and paraphrasing -- Writing a source-based essay -- Writing a research essay -- Handbook of sentence skills -- Subjects and verbs -- Fragments -- Run-ons -- Regular and irregular verbs -- Subject-verb agreement -- More about verbs -- Pronoun agreement and reference -- Pronoun types -- Adjectives and and adverbs -- Misplaced modifiers -- Dangling modifiers -- Capital letters -- Numbers and abbreviations -- Apostrophe -- Quotation marks -- Comma -- Commonly confused words -- Effective word choice -- Editing tests -- Readings for writers -- Introduction to readings -- Building self-awareness -- Education and learning -- Challenging societal values.
"College Writing Skills with Readings is designed to help students gain the strong foundational skills that they need to succeed in college and in their lives beyond college. It does this by focusing on the four bases of unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills; emphasizing writing for personal, academic and workplace writing; and focusing on information literacy and research writing"-- Provided by publisher
9781265226596
English language Rhetoric.
English language Grammar.
Res 808.0427 Al153 2023
College writing skills with readings / by Zoe L. Albright and John Langan - 11th ed. - New York McGraw Hill LLC c2023. - xxiii,792 pages. 23 cm.
Essay writing -- An introduction to writing -- The writing process -- The first and second steps in essay writing -- The third step in essay writing -- The fourth step in essay writing -- Four bases for revising essays -- Developing an essay -- Patterns of essay development -- Description -- Narration -- Exemplification -- Process -- Cause and effect -- Comparison and/or contrast -- Reading -- Definition -- Division-classification -- Argument -- Researching, writing, and documenting -- Information literacy -- Summarizing and paraphrasing -- Writing a source-based essay -- Writing a research essay -- Handbook of sentence skills -- Subjects and verbs -- Fragments -- Run-ons -- Regular and irregular verbs -- Subject-verb agreement -- More about verbs -- Pronoun agreement and reference -- Pronoun types -- Adjectives and and adverbs -- Misplaced modifiers -- Dangling modifiers -- Capital letters -- Numbers and abbreviations -- Apostrophe -- Quotation marks -- Comma -- Commonly confused words -- Effective word choice -- Editing tests -- Readings for writers -- Introduction to readings -- Building self-awareness -- Education and learning -- Challenging societal values.
"College Writing Skills with Readings is designed to help students gain the strong foundational skills that they need to succeed in college and in their lives beyond college. It does this by focusing on the four bases of unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills; emphasizing writing for personal, academic and workplace writing; and focusing on information literacy and research writing"-- Provided by publisher
9781265226596
English language Rhetoric.
English language Grammar.
Res 808.0427 Al153 2023