Annotated Instructors Edition for Writing for Life

Sentences and Paragraphs

D. J. Henry (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

560 Seiten

2013 | 2nd edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-321-86456-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The revolutionary approach of D.J. Henry’s Writing for Life offers a visually rich, high-interest, and down-to-earth approach that reinforces the writing process while showing students how to take responsibility for their learning.

 

While the areas-for-learning are often steadfast, today’s developing writers learn differently than learners from 10, 15, 20 years ago. The overwhelming majority of today’s learners—having been influenced by television, interacted with the Web, and watched video games—are products of an environment where information is presented and ideas are expressed principally through visuals. D.J. Henry recognized the differences between today’s learners and learners of yesteryear, and wrote Writing for Life from the ground up to address the thinking and learning processes occurring today.

 

The ground-breaking design of Writing for Life (developed in conjunction with Dorling Kindersley Publishers [DK]) makes writing, reading and thinking processes visible, and shows the processes rather than just telling students about them. Highly graphic layouts and unique visual pedagogy empower students to transfer the learning strategies they already use in interpreting the visual world to the task of writing. This visual approach—created specifically for today’s visually-oriented learners-is complemented by the student-centered learning strategy called “What’s the Point?” Not only does "What's the Point?" demonstrate real-world scenarios or applications of writing in context, but this directed thinking activity also prompts students to set a learning goal, call on prior knowledge, predict information, focus on structure, and generate details for each writing lesson. Thus, the visual approach and the “What's the Point?” theme of Writing for Life inspire student-centered learning and motivation by illustrating the power of writing in life.

 

This edition of Writing for Life: Sentences and Paragraphs is supported by an enhanced MyWritingLab course, which offers text-specific exercises within the Learning Path, all of which feed into the MyWritingLab Gradebook.

Inhalt

Part 1: Getting Ready to Write

1. Preparing to Learn about Writing

2. Thinking through the Writing Process

Part 2: Writing Paragraphs

3. Understanding the Paragraph

4. Using the Patterns of Organization to Develop Your Paragraphs

Part 3: The Basic Sentence

5.Nouns and Pronouns

6. Adjectives and Adverbs

7. Verbs

8. Subjects, Verbs, and Simple Sentences

9. Compound and Complex Sentences

Part 4: Recognizing and Avoiding Errors

10. Run Ons

11. Fragments

12. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

13. Subject-Verb Agreement

Part 5: Punctuation and Mechanics

14. The Comma

15. The Apostrophe

16. Question Marks

17. End Punctuation

18. Capitalization

19. Improving Your Spelling

20. Mastering Often-Confused Words

Part 6: Writing Clearly

21. Sentence Variety

22. Sentence Clarity

23. Dialects and Standard English

24. Revising for Effective Expression

Part 7: Reading Selections

Appendixes

Understanding the Essay

The Writing Portfolio

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.4.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 216 x 279 mm
• Gewicht: 1020 g
• ISBN-10: 0-321-86456-5 / 0321864565
• ISBN-13: 978-0-321-86456-7 / 9780321864567
• Zustand: Neuware