(eBook PDF) English Skills with Readings 9th Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
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- ISBN-10 : 0073513563
- ISBN-13 : 978-0073513560
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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.
table of contents:
PART 1 Fundamentals of Effective Writing
1. An Introduction to Writing
2. The Four Bases and the Writing Process
3. The First and Second Steps in Writing
4. The Third Step in Writing
5. The Fourth Step in Writing
6. Four Bases for Revising Writing
PART 2 Paragraph Development
7. Description
8. Narration
9. Exemplification
10. Process
11. Cause and/or Effect
12. Comparison and/or Contrast
13. Definition
14. Division-Classification
15. Argument
PART 3 Essay Development
16. Writing the Essay
PART 4 Source-Based Writing in the Digital Age
17. Information Literacy
18. Using Sources to Write Papers
PART 5 Handbook of Sentence Skills
Section I Grammer
19. Subjects and Verbs
20. Sentence Sense
21. Fragments
22. Run-Ons
23. Regular and Irregular Verbs
24. Subject-Verb Agreement
25. More about Verbs
26. Pronoun Agreement and Reference
27. Pronoun Types
28. Adjectives and Adverbs
29. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Section II Mechanics
30. Capital Letters
31. Numbers and Abbreviations
Section III Punctuation
32. Apostrophes
33. Quotation Marks
34. Commas
35. Other Punctuation Marks
Section IV Word Use
36. Commonly Confused Words
37. Effective Word Choice
Section V Practice
38. Editing Tests
PART 6 Readings for Writers
INTRODUCTION TO THE READINGS
GOALS AND VALUES
EDUCATION AND SELF-AWARENESS
HUMAN GROUPS AND SOCIETY