College Writing Skills - Softcover

John Langan

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ISBN 10: 007228322X ISBN 13: 9780072283228

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College, 1999

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Highly regarded and used by countless students, this effective rhetoric/handbook is ideal for freshman writing courses that focus on the essay. COLLEGE WRITING SKILLS features the successful Langan approach--focusing on the four essentials of writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. At the end of the book students will find a handbook that offers a wide variety of exercises and editing tests that stress clear thinking and revision. The fifth edition incorporates professional essays that illustrate each of the nine rhetorical patterns and fully up-to-date coverage on writing a research paper.

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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.

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