BOOK |
DESCRIPTION |
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Best Nonfiction
1998 |
Book.
Each unit contains a nonfiction selection and lessons
that teach concepts and skills to help students
interpret selections and understand particular riting
techniques. Units include written exercises that
provide an opportunity for students to use what
they've learned in the lessons. |
Best Selling Chaters
1994, 1990 |
Book.
Designed to give students writing experience and
practice in critically discussing literature. Teaches
readers how to become more involved in what they
read by employing selections proven to be favorites
among young adults. Each reading selection is followed
by a lesson that helps with identifying theme, characters,
setting, and author’s language.
Practice exercises follow each lesson. |
Bridges: From Sentence
to Paragraph
1986
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Book.
Designed to strengthen reader’s basic sentence
skills, grammar and writing skills. Exercises, including
cloze, sentence combining, skeletal sentences, skits,
improvisations, conversation writing, and sentence
writing based on facts and charts follow lessons.
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Complete Sentence
Workout Book
1985
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Complete course in traditional grammar
and punctuation designed to build skills sequentially.
Offers practice in identifying concepts and in developing
sentences. |
Crafting Cumulative
Sentences
1984
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Book.
Designed to improve reader’s skill in constructing
clear, correct English sentences. Groups of short,
choppy sentences are rewritten into more mature and
interesting prose. Focuses on finding a sentence solution.
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| English 2600
1972
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Workbook.
Offers students practice in grammar, sentence-building,
correct usage and punctuation. Explanation of each
concept is followed by a practice exercise. Students
are encouraged to compare their answer with book’s
answer immediately. Includes an index of concepts.
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| Essays & Reports
1989
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Book.
Helps writers learn the skills they will need to tackle
any kind of essay or report. Students will learn how
to choose appropriate subjects, use the library more
efficiently, make reports more interesting, and to
include a bibliography or footnotes.
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Foundation: Building
Sentence Skills
1989
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Book.
Helps readers understand basic sentence structure
and offers frequent practice applying the methods
learned to their own work. Readers are introduced
to core sentence elements and taught about the relationships
between those elements. Methods to help readers make
correct judgments about sentence structure and word
usage in the context of differing elements are offered.
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Improving Composition
1983
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Workbook.
Designed to help students improve their written expression
through a comprehensive study of the sentence and
all its parts using a simplified approach.
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Practical English
1992 |
Workbook.
Designed to help students improve areas of weakness
in writing. Emphasizes the difference between formal
and informal writing styles, sentence construction,
mechanics, and general syntax improvement.
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Relationships
1985
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Series of articles discusses the different
types of relationships people have.
Provides enjoyable discussion into writing styles.
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| Reprise
1980
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Book.
Reviews basic writing skills. Pretest performance
determines what skills student needs more practice
in. Topics covered include: parts of sentences, subject
and verb agreement, tenses, pronouns, and writing
styles.
Post-tests measure student’s comprehension of
the material covered.
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| Right Way to Punctuate
1981
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Workbook.
Reference guide for rules on punctuation. General
topics covered include punctuation that gives clues
to meaning, mechanics, and capitalization. Exercises
immediately follow short lessons and tests students
comprehension of the punctuation material presented.
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Rules for Writers
Workbook
Handbook
1988
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Handbook and workbook.
Provide rules for writing English and practice in
using the rules. Essential writing skills include
writing and revising, grammar, mechanics, organization,
special writing techniques, and choosing appropriate
words. Glossary of usage in handbook offers readers
a quick, easy way to reference word usage problems.
Workbook offers exercises that test comprehension
of the lessons introduced in the handbook.
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Sentence Building
1980
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Workbook.
Presents readers with a group of words and asks them
to arrange those words in a specific pattern, using
a clearly defined method. Readers are asked to repeat
the patterns many times to become comfortable using
the sentence.
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| Sentence Composing 101
1984
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Book. Introduces readers to various
sentence writing techniques and styles. Readers are
presented with sentences written by professionals
and are asked to produce a sentence that is similar
to the structure found in the writing sample. The
general topics covered include: sentence scrambling,
sentence imitating, sentence combining and sentence
expanding. |
Sentence Paragraphs
and Essays
1979
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Book. Offers lessons on improving writing
skills. Includes topics such as: sentence structure,
sentence combining, mechanics and usage and a section
on a systematic procedure for rewriting, revising,
and editing. Exercises at the end of each lesson provide
readers practice using concepts. |
Writing for Workplace
Success
1991
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Text teaches students a systematic
approach to solving business problems that require
writing, reviews language usage concepts that are
most troublesome for students, and presents writing
skills in a general business context using a performance-based
instructional design. Written exercises reinforce
the concepts introduced. |
