Loose Leaf for College Writing Skills with Readings

by John Langan, Zoe L. Albright

Overview

College Writing Skills with Readings emphasizes writing skills as well as process. The text identifies a set of four fundamental skills that are critical to effective writing:

· Unity: Discover a clearly stated point, or topic sentence, and make sure that all other information in the paragraph or essay supports that point.

· Support: Buttress the points with specific evidence, and plenty of it.

· Coherence: Organize and connect supporting evidence so that paragraphs and essays transition smoothly from one piece of supporting information to the next.

· Sentence Skills: Revise and edit so that sentences are error-free for clearer and more effective communication.

These four bases are essential to all effective writing, whether it be a narrative paragraph for a personal journal, a cover letter for a job application, or an essay for an academic assignment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781265635732
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	01/14/2022
Edition description:	11th ed.
Pages:	818
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College for more than 25 years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing instructive materials that are clear and lively. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that “is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously.” While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and conveying to nonreaders the pleasure and power of books. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit “Townsend Library”—a collection of more than 100 new and classic stories that appeal to readers of any age.

Zoé L. Albright has been involved in diverse aspects of education for 22 years. For the last 18 years, she has been a faculty member at Metropolitan Community College–Longview, teaching developmental writing, composition, and literature. She has created and implemented traditional and online curricula for high school and college English and composition courses and for a variety of literature courses. She continues to research new educational theory and practices. Zoé has most recently served as co-author of English Skills with Readings, ninth edition, and contributing author to other Langan texts. She received her M.A. from Goldsmiths, University of London; B.S. and B.A. from the University of Idaho; and A.A. from Cottey College. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Kansas. Zoé currently resides outside Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband and teenage son.

Table of Contents

Part 1 – Essay Writing

1. An Introduction to Writing

2. The Writing Process

3. The First and Second Steps in Essay Writing

4. The Third Step in Essay Writing

5. The Fourth Step in Essay Writing

6. Four Bases for Revising Essays

7. Developing an Essay

Part 2 – Patterns of Essay Development

8. Description

9. Narration

10. Exemplification

11. Process

12. Cause and/or Effect

13. Comparison and/or Contrast

14. Definition

15. Division-Classification

16. Argument

Part 3 – Researching, Writing and Documenting

17. Information Literacy

18. Summarizing and Paraphrasing

19. Writing a Source-Based Essay

20. Writing a Research Essay

Part 4 – Handbook of Sentence Skills

Section I – Grammar

21. Subject and Verbs

22. Fragments

23. Run-Ons

24. Regular and Irregular Verbs

25. Subject-Verb Agreement

26. More about Verbs

27. Pronoun Agreement and Reference

28. Pronoun Types

29. Adjectives and Adverbs

30. Misplaced Modifiers

31. Dangling Modifiers

Section II – Mechanics and Punctuation

32. Capital Letters

33. Numbers and Abbreviations

34. Apostrophe

35. Quotation Marks

36. Comma Section III – Word Use

37. Commonly Confused Words

38. Effective Word Choice

Section IV – Tests

39. Editing Tests

Part 5 – Readings for Writers

Introduction to the Readings

Building Self-Awareness

Education and Learning

Challenging Societal Values

Index

Instructor's Guide