Writing Talk: Paragraphs and Short Essays with Readings - Softcover

9780135008775: Writing Talk: Paragraphs and Short Essays with Readings
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For courses in Developmental Writing at the paragraph, or paragraph to short essay level.This innovative, confidence-building text/workbook is based on the assumption that students can use their verbal and oral skills to develop better writing skills. It presents writing not as a totally new discipline, but merely as a more logical and formal application of an expertise students already have-talking. A multitude of exercises, assignments, and writing suggestions give students the practice to develop their writing, editing, and revising skills while building an understanding of basic grammar.

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Key Benefit: This innovative, confidence-building workbook is based on the assumption that people have a built-in “ear” for their language — i.e., can “hear” the patterns and rhythms that underlie speaking fluency and that fluency in writing can be developed by applying this inner “ear”. Key Topics: A multitude of exercises, assignments, and writing suggestions give the reader the opportunity to use their “inner ear” to develop their writing, editing, and revising skills and understanding of basic grammar. This version contains readings to enhance learning. Market: A helpful book for developing writers and students looking to improve writing skills.
About the Author:

Anthony C. Winkler was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and educated at Mt. Alvernia Academy and Cornwall College in Montego Bay, Jamaica. In 1962, he came to the United States to attend school, and received an A.A. from Citrus College, and a B.A. and M.A. from California State University at Los Angeles.

For seven years, he taught as a part-time evening college instructor while working full time as a book representative first for Appleton Century Crofts, and then for Scott, Foresman.

Winkler began collaborating with Jo Ray McCuen-Metherell in 1973, and became a fulltime freelance writer in 1976. He is the author of numerous textbooks, trade books (including Bob Marley: An Intimate Portrait by His Mother) and screenplays (including The Lunatic, based on his second novel). He lives in Atlanta with his wife and two children.

Jo Ray McCuen-Metherell was born in Belgium and grew up in Europe, coming to the United States for her college education. She received her B.A. from Pacific Union College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. While working on her doctorate, Jo Ray was hired to teach English at Glendale Community College, from which she retired in 1996.

A chance meeting in 1973 with Tony Winkler, who was a college textbook sales representative, led to a partnership that has produced fifteen coauthored textbooks used at colleges and universities across the country. "I have reached the place," says Jo Ray, "where I have difficulty remembering what I've said in what book."

Jo Ray has one son, David Cotton, a perinatologist at Wayne State University. When not revising her textbooks and writing new ones, Jo Ray enjoys traveling, reading, opera, snow skiing, and tennis.

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  • PublisherPrentice Hall
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 0135008778
  • ISBN 13 9780135008775
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number5
  • Number of pages599
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