English Skills - Softcover

Langan, John

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ISBN 10: 007036446X ISBN 13: 9780070364462

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College, 1996

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This best-selling rhetoric/worktext is designed for developmental writing courses that focus on paragraph writing skills in preparation for essay writing. ENGLISH SKILLS features Langan's crystal-clear explanations and his wide range of motivating activities and writing assignments that effectively reinforce the four keys to effective writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. The sixth edition includes new coverage on using the computer, expanded coverage on the writing process, updated coverage on library resources, and fresh new examples, writing activities and editing tests.

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About the Author:

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for over twenty years. The author of a popular series of college textbook on both reading and writing, he enjoys the challenge of developinging 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 Glassboro State Collee. He also spent a year writing fiction.

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