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The Write Start with Readings builds writing and critical-thinking skills by getting developing writers writing from the start for ample practice in applying the techniques and thinking skills to their own writing. Modeling the entire writing process, from prewriting to proofreading, The Write Start gives lucidinstruction in the various modes of development, teaching students to write paragraphs and essays in each mode. Gayle Feng-Checkett is a certified ESL instructor whose awareness of ESL needs shapes the instruction, explanations, and examples. (New tips for instruction and suggestions for activities in the instructor's edition provide more insight with ESL.). Sample student and professional essays throughout the text encourage critical thinking and discussion.
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Clear and straightforward, The Write Start with Readings: Paragraphs to Essays is a developmental writing book designed to build writing, revision and critical thinking skills. The book reviews paragraph structure and moves through prewriting, thesis statement construction, drafting, and revising the various modes of essay style, emphasizing writing skills throughout the chapters. Also included are sample student and professional essays to encourage critical thinking and discussion. A Writer's Resource appendix provides opportunities to work on targeted skills in grammar, punctuation, and ESL concerns. Created with developmental readers and learning disabled readers in mind, the book's 4-color design is crisp and clear, emphasizing the content and presenting it in a manner that is easier to navigate. For those seeking a developmental writing book at the paragraph-to-essay level.
About the Author:
Gayle Feng-Checkett is originally from California and received her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Spanish from the University of Redlands in 1974. She received her M.A. in English with a minor in Spanish from the University of North Dakota and continued her graduate work with studies in Teaching English as a Second Language. Feng-Checkett's special interests in teaching are in Composition, Comparative Literature, and Teaching English as a Second Language.
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- PublisherLongman Pub Group
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0205519377
- ISBN 13 9780205519378
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number3
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