Skill Set : Strategies for Reading and Writing

Engkent, Lucia

ISBN 10: 0195423070 / ISBN 13: 9780195423075

Published by Oxford University Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Skill Set : Strategies for Reading and Writing
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195423070
• ISBN 13: 9780195423075
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1 Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 1.279 pounds

About this title

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 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.