Essay Writing Skills with Readings is a straightforward and comprehensive resource which prepares students to produce compelling, organized, and thoroughly researched essays. Langan presents a framework built on four bases – unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. By mastering these fundamentals, students will develop effective composition skills. Instructors and students will also benefit from the carefully chosen Canadian and International readings selected for their known success in the classroom. Additionally, throughout
Essay Writing Skills with Readings, there is an emphasis on understanding audience, purpose, voice, summarization and research skills, which directs students to think critically about their writing.
INCLUDED WITH THIS TEXT - Connect Grammar is an online grammar and writing tool for Canadian students. Connect Grammar uses practice and assessment to offer robust grammar support, resources for paragraph and essay development, and support for conducting research. Connect Grammar is designed to help students identify areas of grammatical weakness and improve their skills through comprehensive and reliable instruction and practice. Composition skills support is also provided to ensure students are successful throughout the writing process.
Nancy Rishor began teaching in the Ontario College system in 1990, and for several years taught a wide range of courses including developmental English, essay writing, business communications, literature, public speaking, art history, and humanities. In 2003, Nancy joined the Communications Department at Fleming College where she teaches a variety of writing courses in the classroom, online, and hybrid versions. In addition to teaching, Nancy enjoys researching new teaching strategies, keeping pace with trends in technology, and revising college-level textbooks for Canadian publishers. What Nancy finds most rewarding about teaching adult learners is making relevant and meaningful connections with them, especially those students who experience more challenges than others when it comes to writing skills. Giving students the opportunities to shine in the classroom is a consistent goal. When Nancy is not teaching, you will find her spending time with her husband and two children in Peterborough, Ontario.
John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for more than 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 of more than a hundred new and classic stories.
Fred was educated at Trent University, (B.A. English), Fleming College (E.C.E. diploma) York University (B. Ed) and Central Michigan University (M.A.). He has taught as an early childhood educator, elementary school teacher, Early Literacy teacher (specialist), university faculty at the Trent School of Education and Professional learning Bachelor of Arts program, professor and Language Arts Co-ordinator, and is currently a Fleming College professor and Educational Assistant Program Co-ordinator.
Fred has worked in radio broadcasting as an on air personality, and has created radio script and jingles for an independent advertising agency. His avocation is song writing and novel writing….no publishing deals yet…but he’s working on it!
He lives and works in Peterborough with his wife and three boys.
Sharon Winstanleyteaches at Seneca College and York University. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Toronto, and then enjoyed a first career in retail and marketing management. After returning sporadically to university to study Italian, Greek, Marketing, and Financial Management, she decided on a career-change. Twenty-odd years of teaching later, she’s still happy about that change.
