At a Glance: Paragraphs

Lee Brandon (Author)

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Product Description

Quick, comprehensive writing guidance at a low cost--the At a Glance series can be paired with any developmental title or used independently. This flexible series includes a separate textbook for sentences, paragraphs, essays, and a reader. Each book features clear, concise instruction reinforced by extensive practice, exercises, and examples. At a Glance: Paragraphs guides students through the basics of prewriting, paragraph structure, and developing a paragraph in various rhetorical modes. The Third Edition includes a handbook section with units on diction, sentence variety, and omissions.

About the Author

Lee Brandon is the author of twelve college English textbooks with Houghton Mifflin Company, including the best-selling series, Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond with Integrated Readings, and Paragraphs and Essays with Integrated Readings and the highly successful At a Glance series. He has served as chair of the English Department at Mt. San Antonio College, where he taught for more than thirty years and occasionally still teaches. Few authors are as active in the promotion of their books as Lee Brandon, who regularly visits schools across the country and presents at professional conferences. Lee also has to his credit poems and short stories in magazines; songs recorded and in sheet music; a musical play for elementary school students (in print with Lorenz Music); a play produced; a published Ford Foundation grant project; a chapbook of ballads about his youth, Oklahoma, My Sweet Sorrow; a chapbook of ballads about his experience teaching for ten years in a California women's prison, Butterflies on Barbwire; and newspaper articles about travel and whimsical experiences.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 3 edition (February 23, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0618542272
• ISBN-13: 978-0618542277
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,662,521 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)