A Commonsense Guide to Grammar and Usage
A Commonsense Guide to Grammar and Usage

Author: Larry Beason

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2014-12-12

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1457695928

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A Commonsense Guide to Grammar and Usage has one goal: to help students get it when it comes to grammar. This student-friendly, easy-to-use reference teaches students how to recognize, correct, and avoid common errors so they can continue to improve their writing throughout collegeand life. Whether your students need a refresher on the basics or are learning them for the first time, A Commonsense Guide to Grammar and Usage is designed to be used in the classroom or as a tool for self-study. The seventh edition includes an expanded section on parts of speech and additional grammar considerations for ESL writers as well as a writing guide that discusses reading, planning drafting, and revising and how to avoid errors in documentation.

A Commonsense Guide to Grammar and Usage 6e
A Commonsense Guide to Grammar and Usage 6e

Author: Larry Beason

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2011-11-24

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 1457624117

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A Commonsense Guide to Grammar and Usage is just what its name suggests: a straightforward, student-friendly grammar guide. The text’s modular lessons break down complex grammatical concepts with plain-language explanations, handy tips, and visual examples that show — rather than just tell — students how to recognize, correct, and learn to avoid errors in grammar. With hundreds of exercises in the book and thousands more available online for free at Exercise Central, students get ample practice finding and fixing errors in their writing. The text also includes writing coverage and brief documentation guides for MLA and APA, making it a useful reference for a variety of college courses. Read the preface.

Reading Critically, Writing Well
Reading Critically, Writing Well

Author: Rise B. Axelrod

Publisher: Bedford/st Martins

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 631

ISBN-13: 9780312390471

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- Unique, step-by-step Guides to Reading and to Writing teach students how to use critical reading strategies to analyze the content and craft of successful writing and then how to apply the strategies to their own writing. At the beginning of each chapter, a Guide to Reading walks students through a reading selection, pointing out rhetorical strategies and techniques for closer critical reading; at the end of the chapter, a Guide to Writing takes them through the process of planning, drafting, and revising an essay for that chapter's rhetorical purpose.- Covering the full range of writing that students will do in college, from autobiography and reflection to evaluation and argument, 56 readings -- five professional essays and two or three student essays in each chapter -- demonstrate rhetorical goals and provide compelling examples of each genre.- New features in this edition include twice as much student writing, attention to visual rhetoric, expanded treatment of research and documentation, and a two-color design.

Reading Critically, Writing Well
Reading Critically, Writing Well

Author: Rise B. Axelrod

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2019-10-03

Total Pages: 1271

ISBN-13: 131925473X

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With more critical reading coverage than any other composition text, Reading Critically, Writing Well helps students read for meaning and read like a writer. A robust catalog of reading strategies complement assignment chapters that cover four expository genres, including autobiography/literacy narratives and reflection, and four argumentative genres, including evaluation and proposal. Each chapter starts with a guide to reading that challenges students to analyze the authors’ techniques, and concludes with a step-by-step guide to writing and revising that helps them apply these techniques to their own essays. The provocative readings throughout represent an array of topics and disciplines. This new edition brings on noted reading scholar Ellen Carillo (University of Connecticut), and provides more opportunities for students to learn and practice complex reading and writing strategies, with a new emphasis on inquiry, curiosity, and habits of mind. Accessible instruction, engaging readings, and effective writing assignments make Reading Critically, Writing Well ideal for instructors who want to demonstrate critical analysis and the effective rhetorical choices that students can make in their own writing.