Maximize Your Writing 1 - Softcover

Pearson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0134661435 ISBN 13: 9780134661438

Publisher: Pearson Education ESL, 2016

Synopsis

Maximize Your Writing 1 provides students with instruction and practice in developing their academic writing skills. The four Maximize Your Writing  Workbooks feature useful strategies and abundant practice, helping student become confident and successful writers.

This flexible four-level workbook series can be used with any other writing textbooks and integrated skills courses.

Highlights

• Clear skill presentations provide explanation and give students extra reinforcement.
• Abundant practice with punctuation, mechanics, and sentence structure helps students build skills necessary for creating well-developed and clear writing.
• Clear grammar presentations and engaging exercises help students develop the essential grammar for building writing skills.
• Paragraph organization sections include extensive practice that helps students create well-designed and coherent pieces of writing.
• Writing assignments allow students to apply skills in writing paragraphs and essays.
• Pre- and post-tests provide formative assessment at the beginning of the course and summative assessment at the end.
• Timed and untimed writing options allow students to practice writing coherently and fluently under timed conditions.

About this title

About the Author

NEIL D. PEARSON, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research includes work on the development, estimation, and evaluation of models for pricing and hedging various derivatives and other financial instruments. Dr. Pearson has published papers in a number of academic journals, and is an Associate Editor of both the Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He has consulted for a number of U.S. and international banks, working on term structure models, the evaluation of derivatives pricing models, and issues that arise in the computation of Value-at-Risk measures. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Education ESL
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0134661435
• ISBN 13: 9780134661438
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208