"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

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

English Skills

Foreign 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

Words, Language & Grammar

McGraw-Hill Ryerson Higher Education

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

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

College Writing Skills with Readings: Text, Student CD, User's Guide, and Online

"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.

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Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays

English Skills

College Writing Skills with Readings, 2nd Edition

College Writing Skills with Readings, 3rd Edition

English Skills

English Skills with Readings

College Writing Skills

College Writing Skills with Readings

College Writing Skills with Readings: Text, Student CD, User's Guide, and Online

English Skills with Readings