Blueprints 2: Composition Skills for Academic Writing - Softcover

Folse, Keith S.; Mahnke, M. Kathleen; Solomon, Elena Vestri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618144102 ISBN 13: 9780618144105

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002

Synopsis

The Blueprints 1 & 2 academic writing series offers a unique combination of instruction in the rhetorical processes as well as paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing. This multi-layered approach helps students develop good writing habits and avoid the pitfalls of plagiarism. Students receive ample opportunities to write at the sentence, paragraph, and essay levels.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Keith Folse is a Professor of TESOL at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of 57 textbooks on a variety of subjects from grammar to vocabulary to composition, including five best-selling books in the Great Writing series by National Geographic Learning.

Elena Vestri Solomon is currently a lecturer in the B. Ed program for future teachers in Abu Dhabi's Emirates College for Advanced Education. She received her MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of South Florida, Tampa, and has lived and worked in Italy, Spain, France, Hungary, Romania, Uzbekistan, and UAE. She has authored/co-authored over a dozen academic textbooks in composition, grammar, and listening/speaking/note-taking.

Review:

1. Paragraph to Essay 2. Classification Essays 3. Process Essays 4. Comparison/Contrast Essays 5. Cause/Effect Essays 6. Reaction Essays 7. Argumentive Essays 8. Paragraphing, Summarizing, and Synthesizing in Academic Writing

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0618144102
• ISBN 13: 9780618144105
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272