"Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays" serves as a guidebook for every step of the writing process. Emphasizing both process and practice, with a focus on revision, the new second edition helps to apply and advance writing skills using John Langan's proven techniques. Mastering essential sentence skills, learning to write effective paragraphs and essays, and becoming a critical reader are turning points for every writer, and they will prepare the students for writing situations in college and beyond.

Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays

Reference

John Langan

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

McGraw-Hill Higher Education

This text is intended for composition courses designed to help students master the five-paragraph essay. It focuses on four essential bases of effective writing - unity, support, coherence and sentence skills. A wide variety of activities and assignments are provided, both structured and creative.

College Writing Skills, with Readings

Words, Language & Grammar

McGraw-Hill.

English Skills [paperback] Langan, John [Dec 01, 1988]

English Skills

Language Study & Reference

McGraw-Hill College

textbook on writing at the college level

College Writing Skills with Readings, 2nd Edition

For courses in developmental writing/composition, this text has four unifying principles: unity, support, coherence and sentence skills. 25 essays provide a source of material for a range of writing assignments and a wide range of activities is included.

College Writing Skills with Readings, 3rd Edition

Literature & Fiction

This rhetoric/worktext is designed for developmental writing courses that focus on paragraph writing skills in preparation for essay writing. This text stresses the four keys to effective writing - unity, support, coherence and sentence skills. Student writing topics are both experiential and odjective - they aim to teachg the student how to develop an idea and draw upon their own reasoning abilities provided form their own experiences. Updated and revised examples, plus exercises and writing assignments should teach students all the skills they need. in this new edition, chapter one offers an overview of the basics of effective writing. The section, "important factors in writing" has been moves to the beginning of the text and features invention strategies such as keeping a journal and prewriting in the form of diagramming or mapping. The chapter on writing a research paper has been revised, incorporating a complete student research paper and the chapter on using the library includes current computerized research facilities. In addition the "introduction to paragraph development" has been expanded to include writing for a specific purpose and audience, using peer review and using a personal checklist.

The new seventh edition of English Skills with Readings features John Langan's trademark crystal-clear explanations, along with his range of motivating activities and writing assignments that reinforce the four bases of effective writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. This edition of the book adds a variety of exciting new features to John Langan's proven approach, and reinstates much-requested materials from previous editions.

English Skills with Readings

Sharon Winstanley

McGraw-Hill Ryerson Higher Education

Putting a Canadian face on grammar instruction. 
English Essentials profiles real Canadian students’ personal stories accompanied by photographs of real people whose lives have been changed by reading and writing. The Canadian author, Dr. Lisa Salem-Wiseman, interviewed students across the country and wove their personal life stories into the fabric of this book. 
Not only do students learn grammar through practice, they have an opportunity to engage and relate to the instruction and exercises for each skill. Reflecting the faces, challenges, and triumphs of its reader, this text inspires students to improve their writing skills. 
Student photographers snapped the photo essays of many of the students featured in this textbook. This book is made for students, by students.

English Essentials, CDN Edition: What you need to know about grammar, punctuation, and usage

Lisa Salem-Wiseman

McGraw-Hill/Ryerson

Designed to help students master essay writing, this work provides a wide variety of assignments and activities, both structured and open-ended. It focuses on the four essentials of writing - unity, support, coherence and sentence skills - as keys to effective writing.

College Writing Skills

McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions)

College Writing Skills with Readings offers students a practical guide to becoming better writers. From mastering the traditional five-paragraph essay and its variations to learning about the finer points of grammar and punctuation, College Writing Skills

College Writing Skills with Readings

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays

College Writing Skills, with Readings

English Skills

College Writing Skills with Readings, 2nd Edition

College Writing Skills with Readings, 3rd Edition

English Skills

English Skills with Readings

English Essentials, CDN Edition: What you need to know about grammar, punctuation, and usage

College Writing Skills

College Writing Skills with Readings