Ready to Write: A First Composition Text (Second Edition)
A First Composition Text
Karen Lourie Blanchard
ISBN: | 9780201859997 |
Publisher: | Addison-Wesley |
Published: | 31 December, 1996 |
Format: | Paperback |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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Ready to Write: A First Composition Text (Second Edition)
A First Composition Text
Karen Lourie Blanchard
Presenting paragraph development in clear, teachable steps, Ready to Write prepares high-beginning and low-intermediate students for the fundamental composition skills needed for successful academic work. Through a clear progression of learning tasks, Ready to Write provides these benefits: Presents important organizational principles of good academic writing such as "topic sentences, supporting details, ordering of details, identifying and eliminating irrelevancies, " and "transition words." Helps students apply these organizational principles to major rhetorical forms, among them "comparing and contrasting, describing, reporting, giving information, analyzing, " and "letter writing." Contextualizes writing in real-world tasks such as "letters, reports, exams, articles for newsletters, " and "advertising copy.
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