Blueprints 2: Composition Skills for Academic Writing / Edition 1

by Keith S. Folse, M. Kathleen Mahnke, Elena Vestri Solomon

Overview

The Blueprints 1 & 2 academic writing series offers a unique combination of instruction in the rhetorical processes as well as paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing. This multi-layered approach helps students develop good writing habits and avoid the pitfalls of plagiarism. Students receive ample opportunities to write at the sentence, paragraph, and essay levels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780618144105
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	09/11/2002
Series:	Blueprints
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Keith S. Folse, Ph.D., is a retired professor of TESOL at the University of Central Florida. He has taught ESL and EFL in the US, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. His areas of specialization are vocabulary, grammar, and writing, and he is a frequent conference presenter all over the world. Dr. Folse is the author or coauthor of 75 books, including several National Geographic Learning titles such as Great Writing, Grammar for Great Writing, and Blueprints.

Elena Vestri Solomon is currently a lecturer in the B. Ed program for future teachers in Abu Dhabi's Emirates College for Advanced Education. She received her MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of South Florida, Tampa, and has lived and worked in Italy, Spain, France, Hungary, Romania, Uzbekistan, and UAE. She has authored/co-authored over a dozen academic textbooks in composition, grammar, and listening/speaking/note-taking.

Table of Contents

1. Paragraph to Essay 2. Classification Essays 3. Process Essays 4. Comparison/Contrast Essays 5. Cause/Effect Essays 6. Reaction Essays 7. Argumentive Essays 8. Paragraphing, Summarizing, and Synthesizing in Academic Writing