Ready to Write More: From Paragraph to Essay, Second Edition [Paperback]

Karen Blanchard (Author), Christine Root (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130484687 | ISBN-13: 978-0130484680 | Publication Date: July 18, 2003 | Edition: 2

 

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From the Back Cover

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 More:

Are your students ready to move beyond single-paragraph assignments? From the building blocks of good prose to writing for specific purposes, Ready to Write More gives readers the confidence and skills needed for longer and more complex assignments.

• New to this edition is an updated presentation of the writing process, new peer-editing worksheets, web-based exercises, and expanded guided practice.

Product Details

• Paperback: 183 pages
• Publisher: Pearson ESL; 2 edition (July 18, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130484687
• ISBN-13: 978-0130484680
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #271,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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55 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for teaching writing to ESL students, April 27, 1998

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This review is from: Ready to Write More: From Paragraph to Essay (Paperback)

I used this book to teach writing to high school ESL (English as a Second Language) students. After 10 years of searching, this is the best book I have found to prepare the students for entering mainstream classes where they have to know how to organize their written work well. This textbook contains excellent models to study and analyze before the students begin writing. It teaches students how to write good topic sentences and supporting details, use transitions, and form clear introductory and concluding paragraphs. It also models and teaches different types of writing forms such as classification, cause and effect, comparison/contrast, problem/solution, summaries, personal expression, and college application essays. Finally, it extensively covers the writing process of pre-writing, drafting, revising, and editing. Hooray for this book!!!!

5.0 out of 5 stars reading, November 25, 2011

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0 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars where is my book????, July 6, 2009

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I never got this book "Ready to Write More" ,have anyone can answer me why I have booked this book for one month but I never got it now??? And someone can tell me how do I do.