Ready to Write: A First Composition Text, Third Edition [Paperback]

Karen Blanchard (Author), Christine Root (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0130424633 | ISBN-13: 978-0130424631 | Publication Date: July 31, 2002 | Edition: 3rd

 

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Good writing is a network of skills that can be taught, practiced, and mastered. These books present paragraph development and composition skills in clear, teachable steps. Each book offers students dependable strategies as well as opportunities to bring their own ideas and talent to the writing process.
Important features of the series:

• Presents important organizational principles of good academic writing, including topic sentences, maintaining unity and coherence, making and supporting a point, providing clear transitions, and writing clear introductory and concluding paragraphs.
• Shows students how to apply these organizational principles to major rhetorical forms: classification, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, problem and solution, writing a summary, personal expression, and essays for college applications.
• Offers extensive practice in every step of the writing process, including prewriting, drafting, revision, and editing.
• Provides individual practice on additional topics in ¿On Your Own¿ sections.
• Offers effective error correction and editing practice in ¿You Be the Editor¿ sections.

Ready to Write:

• Presents paragraph development and the fundamental compositions skills needed for successful academic work, with more model paragraphs and expanded emphasis on process writing.
• Updated content contextualizes writing in real-world tasks such as writing letters, reports, newspaper articles, and advertising copy.

Product Details

• Paperback: 156 pages
• Publisher: Pearson ESL; 3rd edition (July 31, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130424633
• ISBN-13: 978-0130424631
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #739,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for University ESL in Korea, August 25, 2006

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D. Fichtner (American in Seoul, SK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ready to Write: A First Composition Text, Third Edition (Paperback)

This book almost looks too simple, but it worked out very, very well. The problem in Korea is that students often feel they should be learning from difficult-looking textbooks, despite their level. Also, they feel they should just instantly go from knowing nothing to writing full-page TOEFL essays! This book doesn't look difficult, so I was a little worried at first, but it turned out fine.

This book really helped my uni students learn how to write a proper basic paragraph. It could also be used for high school students, provided they can form sentences on their own. I also required my students to write a daily journal of at least 20 lines or so (using paragraph form).

I was satisfied with this book, and my students said it was "good."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for higher level ESL students, February 7, 2006

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N. MacLeod (Nara, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ready to Write: A First Composition Text, Third Edition (Paperback)

I used this text with a class of 25 ESL students in Japan, most of them who had been abroad for an extensive period of time and were highly motivated to learn English writing. This is a good choice of book if your students' already possess intermediate writing skills and would like to progress to paragraph and short essay writing.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, December 2, 2011

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This review is from: Ready to Write: A First Composition Text, Third Edition (Paperback)

It is very hard to find step by step writing programs, especially for ESL students, and especially in a sequence that makes sense. I have started using it with my high school ESL students and very optimistic about improving their writing.

It is for high beginning and low intermediate students.

Here are the chapter headings: Organization, the key to good writing; understanding paragraphs, organizing information by time, organization information by order of importance, organizing information by space, the writing process, supporting the main idea, giving instructions, expressing an opinion, comparing and contrasting, writing about causes and effects, writing personal and business letter, writing summaries.

You can see how comprehensive it is.