College Writing Skills with Readings

College Writing Skills with Readings

Author: John Langan

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781260005745

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From mastering the traditional five-paragraph essay and its variations to learning about the finer points of grammar and punctuation, this title empowers students to take control of their writing and put it to work for them. It brings writing closer to students and helps to take them where they need to go.


Loose Leaf for College Writing Skills with Readings

Loose Leaf for College Writing Skills with Readings

Author: John Langan

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 9781260030228

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College Writing Skills with Readings 10e highlights the importance of writing with a purpose by focusing on four bases of writing, unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. The four bases provide students with clear guidance on how to organize their thoughts, structure their main idea into a thesis, provide supporting evidence to their claim, and revise and edit their work into a well thought-out essay. College Writing Skills with Readings personalizes and grounds students’ writing experience by placing all of its reading, writing, and essay examples within three key realms - personal, academic, and workplace (PAW) - to emphasize the importance of writing in every facet of life.


College Writing Skills with Readings

College Writing Skills with Readings

Author: John Langan

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 836

ISBN-13:

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College Writing Skills With Readings, 5th Edition, features Langan's renowned clear writing style and wide range of writing assignments and activities that reinforce the four essentials of good writing: Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills.


College Writing Skills

College Writing Skills

Author: John Langan

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780070363823

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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.


Reading and Study Skills

Reading and Study Skills

Author: John Langan

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 2001-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780072445992

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Substance Abuse Recovery in College explains in authoritative detail what collegiate recovery communities are, the types of services they provide, and their role in the context of campus life, with extended examples from Texas Tech University s influential CSAR (Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery) program. Using data from both conventional surveys and end-of-day daily Palm Pilot assessments as well as focus groups, the book examines community members experiences. In addition, the importance of a positive relationship between the recovery community and the school administration is emphasized. Topics covered include: The growing need for recovery services at colleges. How recovery communities support abstinence and relapse prevention. Who are community members and their addiction and treatment histories. Daily lives of young adults in a collegiate recovery community. Challenges and opportunities in establishing recovery communities on campus. Building abstinence support into an academic curriculum. This volume offers clear insights and up-close perspectives of importance to developmental and clinical child psychologists, social workers, higher education policymakers, and related professionals in human development, family studies, student services, college health care, and community services.


Patterns for College Writing

Patterns for College Writing

Author: Laurie G. Kirszner

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2011-12-22

Total Pages: 837

ISBN-13: 0312676840

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Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, authors with nearly thirty years of experience teaching college writing, know what works in the classroom and have a knack for picking just the right readings. In Patterns for College Writing, they provide students with exemplary rhetorical models and instructors with class-tested selections that balance classic and contemporary essays. Along with more examples of student writing than any other reader, Patterns has the most comprehensive coverage of active reading, research, and the writing process, with a five-chapter mini-rhetoric; the clearest explanations of the patterns of development; and the most thorough apparatus of any rhetorical reader, all reasons why Patterns for College Writing is the best-selling reader in the country. And the new edition includes exciting new readings and expanded coverage of critical reading, working with sources, and research. It is now available as an interactive Bedford e-book and in a variety of other e-book formats that can be downloaded to a computer, tablet, or e-reader. Read the preface.


English Skills with Readings

English Skills with Readings

Author: John Langan

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Published: 2014-01-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780073513560

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English Skills with Readings emphasizes personalized learning to address student deficits in grammar and mechanics. Powered by Connect Writing, students gain access to an adaptive personalized learning plan which helps them become more aware of what they already know and what they need to practice to prepare themselves for college-level writing.


College Writing Skills with Readings

College Writing Skills with Readings

Author: John Langan

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780070364585

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This rhetoric/reader/worktext is designed for freshman writing courses that focus on the essay. It range of writing exercises that reinforce the four essentials of good writing: unity; support; coherence and sentence skills. This alternate version provides 25 essays by professional writers. It also includes a brief handbook of exercises and editing tests, and MLA style guidelines and a sample student paper.


Ten Steps to Improving College Reading Skills

Ten Steps to Improving College Reading Skills

Author: John Langan

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781591940999

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Carefully explains and illustrates ten key reading skills that are widely recognized to be essential for literal and critical comprehension. Provides activities and reading selections to help you practice and master those skills.