John Langan

Sentence Skills: A Workbook for Writers, Form B

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This form is designed to help students master the essential grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and usage rules needed for clear, thoughtful writing. All three versions of Sentence skills - Form A, Form B, and Sentence Skills with Readings, feature a flexible format and a wide variety of engaging examples, exercises and mastery tests. Each alternative version features different exercises, examples and mastery tests. Form B now includes a new opening section on the writing process, complete with a careful sequence of interesting activities that help students learn and master the principles of effecive writing, one step at a time.

Produktdetails

• Langan Series
• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 554
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 187mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 807g
• ISBN-13: 9780070371279
• ISBN-10: 007037127X
• Artikelnr.: 22271697

Autorenporträt

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for over twenty years. The author of a popular series of college textbook on both reading and writing, he enjoys the challenge of developinging 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 Glassboro State Collee. He also spent a year writing fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: EFFECTIVE WRITING A Brief Guide to Effective Writing Practice in
Effective Writing PART TWO: SENTENCE SKILLS Section 1: Grammar. Subjects
and Verbs. Sentence Fragments. Run-Ons. Standard English Verbs. Irregular
Verbs. Subject-Verb Agreement. Consistent Verb Tense. Additional
Information about Verbs. Pronoun Reference, Agreement, and Point of View.
Pronoun Types. Adjectives and Adverbs. Misplaced Modifiers. Dangling
Modifiers Faulty Parallelism. Section 2: Mechanics. Paper Format. Capital
Letters. Numbers and Abbreviations. Section 3: Punctuation. End Marks.
Apostrophe. Quotation Marks. Comma. Other Punctuation Marks. Section 4:
Word Use. Dictionary Use. Spelling Improvement. Omitted Words and Letters.
Commonly Confused Words. Effective Word Choice. PART THREE: REINFORCEMENT
OF THE SKILLS. Mastery Tests: Subjects and Verbs (4 tests). Sentence
Fragments (4). Run-Ons (4). Standard English Verbs (4). Irregular Verbs
(4). Subject-Verb Agreement (4). Consistent Verb Tense (2). Pronoun
Reference, Agreement, and Point of View (4). Pronoun Types (2). Adjectives
and Adverbs (2). Misplaced Modifiers (2). Dangling Modifiers (2).
Parallelism (2). Capital Letters (4). Numbers and Abbreviations (2). End
Marks (2). Apostrophe (4). Quotation Marks (4). Comma (4). Other
Punctuation Marks (2). Dictionary Use (2). Spelling Improvement (2).
Omitted Words and Letters (2). Commonly Confused Words (4). Effective Word
Choice (4). Combined Mastery Tests: Sentence Fragments and Run-Ons (2).
Verbs (2). Pronouns (2). Faulty Modifiers and Parallelism (2). Capital
Letters and Punctuation (2). Word Use (2). Editing and Proofreading Tests:
Test 1: Sentence Fragments. Test 2: Run-Ons (Fused Sentences). Test 3:
Run-Ons (Comma Splices). Test 4: Standard English Verbs. Test 5: Irregular
Verbs. Test 6: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers. Test 7: Faulty
Parallelism. Test 8: Capital Letters. Test 9: Apostrophes. Test 10.
Quotation Marks. Test 11: Commas. Test 12: Commonly Confused Words.
Combined Editing Tests. PART FOUR: SENTENCE VARIETY THROUGH COMBINING
ACTIVITIES. Four Traditional Sentence Patterns: The Simple Sentence. The
Compound Sentence. The Complex Sentence. The Compound-Complex Sentence.
Review of Coordination and Subordination. Other Patterns That Add Variety
to Writing -ing Word Groups -ed Word Groups Appositives. -ly Openers. To
Openers. Prepositional Phrase Openers. Series of Items. Sentence-Combining
Exercises. APPENDIXES A. Diagnostic and Achievement Tests. B. Answers to
Introductory Projects and Practice Exercises. C. Progress Charts. Index