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The first in a series of two full–color worktexts for the developmental writing market, Discovery focuses on helping students build better sentence and paragraph writing skills. With its encouraging tone, careful explanations, and abundance of precisely sequenced and incrementally challenging exercise sets, Discovery enables students to view writing as a means of discovering more about themselves and their surroundings. The book starts with an overview of the writing process, and special attention is given to prewriting and the development of topic and supporting sentences. Parts 2 through 5 provide lucid and well–illustrated explanations of basic sentence elements, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics. Part 6 is a section of student and professional reading selections, which include an introduction on critical reading and comprehension and contain numerous writing exercises. An appendix provides practical advice for ESL writers studying English grammar and writing. For anyone interested in improving basic writing skills.
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The first full-color book in the developmental writing market, this book focuses on helping readers build sentence and paragraph writing skills. With its encouraging tone, careful explanations, and abundance of carefully sequenced and incrementally challenging exercise sets, it enables readers to view writing as a means of discovering more about themselves and their surroundings. The book starts with an overview of the writing process with special attention given to prewriting and the development of topic and supporting sentences to help readers put grammar correctness in the context of writing. Parts 2 through 5 provide lucid and well-illustrated explanations of basic sentence elements, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics. Part 6 is a section of reading selections which includes an introduction on critical reading and comprehension and contains numerous writing exercises. An appendix provides practical advice for ESL writers studying English grammar and writing. For professionals wishing to improve upon their writing skills.
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- PublisherAllyn & Bacon
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0205181821
- ISBN 13 9780205181827
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages446
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