College Writing Skills - Softcover

Langan, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007036320X ISBN 13: 9780070363205

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, 1988

Synopsis

This text is aimed at freshman writing courses that deal with the essay. It follows the successful Langan formula, focusing on the four essentials of writing: unity, support, coherence and sentence skills. Also included is a brief handbook at the end of the book with a wide variety of exercises and editing tests that stress clear thinking and revision.

About this title

About the Author:

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for more than twenty-five years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. 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, he says, 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. John now lives with his wife, Judith Nadell, near Philadelphia. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and turning on nonreaders to 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 a hundred new and classic stories.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 007036320X
• ISBN 13: 9780070363205
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 447