Skill Set - Softcover

Engkent, Lucia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195423070 ISBN 13: 9780195423075

Publisher: OUP Canada, 2007

Synopsis

Skill Set: Strategies for Reading and Writing is designed to help students build vocabulary, grammar, writing, and editing skills while improving their reading and comprehension.

Using clear, straightforward explanations of how to avoid and correct typical problems, Part I helps students develop the aptitude and the confidence to express themselves in the written word. Skill-strengthening exercises and activities throughout each unit reinforce the material by encouraging
students to apply the lessons they have just learned.

Part II contains fifteen readings - both fiction and non-fiction - each accompanied by comprehension and discussion questions, exercises, and assignment suggestions. These features will help readers learn skills, such as using rhetorical techniques and recognizing the difference between
conversational and academic writing.

Comprehensive and straightforward, Skill Set is a text that will fully satisfy the needs of students and instructors alike.

About this title

About the Author

Lucia Engkent has taught English and written textbooks for over twenty years. She has an M.A. in Linguistics Applied to Second Language Teaching from the University of Ottawa, as well as an M.A. in Library and Information Science from the University of Toronto. For ESL she has written Take
Part: Speaking Canadian English (Prentice Hall) and Take Charge: Using Everyday Canadian English (Prentice Hall). Lucia Engkent has also co-authored two English textbooks with her husband, Garry Engkent: Groundwork: Writing Skills to Build On (Prentice Hall) and Fiction/Non-Fiction: a Reader and
Rhetoric (Thomson Nelson). She currently teaches at Seneca College in Toronto and Renison College at the University of Waterloo.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Canada
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0195423070
• ISBN 13: 9780195423075
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 275