Building Writing Skills the Hands-on Way

Description

Building Writing Skills the Hands-on Way is a student-friendly, developmental English textbook centered on building students’ fluency in academic and real-world writing. Rich with multisensory exercises that activate multiple learning styles, this book covers the basic skills that lead to proficiency, while addressing the widely expressed need for a new way to reach a diverse population of learners. Brief Contents Contents Preface for Instructors Acknowledgments Introduction for Students Part I: Writing as Communication and Expression 1. Freewriting: Thoughts into Words 2. Generating and Organizing Ideas: Your Raw Materials 3. Developing Powerful Paragraphs: A Structure for Ideas 4. Crafting Purposeful Paragraphs: Strategies and Patterns 5. Building an Essay: Concepts and Skills 6. Writing for a Purpose: Essay Strategies and Structures 7. The Revision Process: Refining Your Work 8. The Editing Process: Polishing Your Work Part II: Building a Strong Foundation 9. Overview of Parts of Speech: A Crash Course 10. Simple Sentence Structure: the Basic Construction Unit 11. Using Commas Correctly: Working within the Sentence 12. Compound Sentence Structure: Key to Understanding Punctuation 13. Catching Run-ons: Using Sentence Structure Tools to Fix Errors 14. Complex Sentence Structure: The Final Pieces of the Puzzle 15. Fixing Fragments: Editing Incomplete Ideas 16. Modifiers: Expanding and Adding to Sentences 17. Sentence Types: Creating Variety 18. Nouns: The Stuff That Everything Is Made Of 19. Pronouns: Stand-ins for Nouns 20. Verbs: The Action That Is in Every Sentence 21. Adjectives and Adverbs: Words that Add More Part III: A Handbook of Sentence Mechanics and Academic Conventions 22. A Guide to Punctuation Patterns 23. Research Skills for Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Citing Sources 24. Tips on Language and Style 25. An Overview of Vocabulary Skills Part IV: Building Reading Skills the Hands-on Way 26. Building Reading Skills Selected Readings Part V: Appendixes A-1. Ways of Learning, Challenges, and the Brain A-2. Grammar and Usage Tips for ESL Students and Others A-3. Employment Document Skills for Success Glossary Resource Pages R-1. Pronoun Types in Context: Whose Watch Is It? R-2. Helping Verbs and Irregular Verbs R-3. Common Prepositions R-4. Conjunction Families Index