Real Skills Essentials
First Edition| ©2018 Miriam Moore; Susan Anker
Author Miriam Moore believes in helping students learn to trust themselves as readers, writers, and thinkers. Writing Essentials Online: A Macmillan Launchpad provides a space where students can build both confidence and strong academic writing skills that will carry the...
Author Miriam Moore believes in helping students learn to trust themselves as readers, writers, and thinkers. Writing Essentials Online: A Macmillan Launchpad provides a space where students can build both confidence and strong academic writing skills that will carry them forward in college and career.
A portable print text, Real Skills Essentials works together with Writing Essentials Online to deliver just the support necessary in order to develop sentences and paragraphs. It can be packaged with Writing Essentials Online at a significant discount.
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Author Miriam Moore believes in helping students learn to trust themselves as readers, writers, and thinkers. Writing Essentials Online: A Macmillan Launchpad provides a space where students can build both confidence and strong academic writing skills that will carry them forward in college and career.
A portable print text, Real Skills Essentials works together with Writing Essentials Online to deliver just the support necessary in order to develop sentences and paragraphs. It can be packaged with Writing Essentials Online at a significant discount.
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- Convenient and Affordable Format. The essential advice and instruction for the sentence-to-paragraph level course in a brief, affordable, and portable format. Concise instructional content highlights what students need to know about sentences and paragraphs: the writing process, paragraph unity, patterns of development, cohesion, and the grammar needed for effective editing.
- Four Basics Boxes. Presenting writing skills in manageable increments,these boxes break down the essentials of topics such as revision, good paragraphs, and illustration into four basic principles. The Four Basics approach to complex composition topics helps students target, remember, and apply concepts without feeling overwhelmed by them.
- Guided Practice. Scaffolding supports the development of writing practice throughout Real Skills Essentials. Students practice writing first within partially completed templates, which allow them to concentrate on specific features of composition such as identification of major supporting details. As a second step, students expand their skills by completing a guided outline, taking more control over the writing process. Finally, students work through the entire writing process independently.
- Real-World Examples. Samples of real student writing demonstrate the concepts covered and give students confidence that good writing skills are relevant and achievable. A focus on real-life correspondence, such as e-mails and cover letters, helps students connect writing to their everyday lives.
- Focus on the Four Most Serious Errors. Real Skills Essentials concentrates first on the four types of grammatical errors that matter most: fragments, run-ons, errors in subject-verb agreement, and errors of verb tense and form. Once students master these four topics and start building their editing skills, they are better prepared to tackle the grammar errors treated in later chapters.Checklists. Checklists throughout the text help novice writers know when a piece of writing is finished and ready for submission or distribution to a real-world audience.
- Checklists. Checklists throughout the text help novice writers know when a piece of writing is finished and ready for submission or distribution to a real-world audience.
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Real Skills Essentials
First Edition| ©2018
Miriam Moore; Susan Anker
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Real Skills Essentials
First Edition| 2018
Miriam Moore; Susan Anker
Table of Contents
A Note to StudentsPreface for Instructors
PART ONE: College Thinking, Reading, and Writing
1. Reading and Critical Thinking: Keys to Successful Writing
2. Getting ready to Write: Writing in College and Other Formal Settings
PART TWO: Writing Paragraphs and Essays
3. Writing Your Paragraph: How to Put ideas Together
4. Improving Your Paragraph: How to Make It the Best It Can Be
5. Developing Your Paragraph: Different Ways to Present Your Ideas
6. Moving from Paragraphs to Essays: How to Write Longer Papers
PART THREE: Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics
7. The Parts of Speech: A Brief Review
8. Complete Sentences: Key Parts to Know
9. Fragments: Sentences That Are Missing a Key Part
10. Run-Ons and Comma Splices: Two Sentences Joined Incorrectly
11. Subject-Verb Agreement Problems: Subjects and Verbs That Do Not Match
12. Verb-Tense Problems: The Past Tense and the Past Participle
13. Other Grammar Concerns: Problems with Pronouns and Modifiers
14. Style, Word Choice, and Spelling: Writing Effective Sentences
15. Punctuation and Capitalization
Index
Useful Editing and Proofreading Marks
Authors
Miriam Moore
Susan Anker
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Real Skills Essentials
First Edition| 2018
Miriam Moore; Susan Anker
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