English Skills with Readings: Text, Student CD, OLC Bind-In Card

Langan,John

ISBN 10: 0073215171 / ISBN 13: 9780073215174

Published by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: English Skills with Readings: Text, Student CD, OLC Bind-In Card
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0073215171
• ISBN 13: 9780073215174
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

One of the most comprehensive and well-respected books of its kind, this best-selling rhetoric/reader/handbook is designed for developmental writing courses that focus on paragraph writing skills in preparation for essay writing. "English Skills with Readings" features John Langan's crystal-clear explanations and his wide range of motivating activities and writing assignments that effectively reinforce the Four Bases of Effective Writing: Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills.

About the Author

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for over twenty-five years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that, he says, "is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously." While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. John now lives with his wife, Judith Nadell, near Philadelphia. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and turning on nonreaders to the pleasure and power of books. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit "Townsend Library"--a collection more than thirty new and classic stories that appeal to readers of any age.