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Mosaics: Focusing on Paragraphs in Context (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card), 4/E
Kim FlachmannCalifornia State University, Bakersfield

ISBN-10: 0205708781
ISBN-13:  9780205708789

Publisher:  Longman
Copyright:  2008
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Published:  11/12/2008
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For Developmental English, Basic Skills or Remedial Writing courses, or low-level Freshman Composition.

 

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Mosaics: Focusing on Paragraphs in Context illustrates how the companion skills of reading and writing are parts of a larger, interrelated process that moves back and forth through the tasks of pre-reading and reading, prewriting and writing, and revising and editing.

 

Experience tells us that students have the best chance of succeeding in college if they learn how to respond productively to the varying academic demands made on them throughout the curriculum. One extremely important part of this process is being able to analyze ideas and think critically about issues in many different subject areas. Mosaics: Focusing on Paragraphs in Context encourages students to discover how the “mosaics” of their own reading and writing processes work together to form a coherent whole. By demonstrating the interrelationship among thinking, reading, and writing on progressively more difficulty levels, Mosaics promises to help prepare students for success in college throughout the curriculum.


Features

The text focuses on paragraph development. By demonstrating the interrelationship among thinking, reading, and writing, the Mosaic series helps students prepare for success in college throughout the curriculum.

 

 

How Mosaics: Focusing on Paragraphs in Context works

 Unique organization- broken down into 4 parts:

  •  Part I: Reading and Writing for Success in College: An Overview:  Demonstrates the cyclical nature of the reading and writing processes. Begins with the logistics of getting ready to read and write and then moves systematically through the interlocking stages of the processes by following a student from rereading to rereading and then prewriting to revising and editing. 
  •  Part II: Reading and Writing Effective Paragraphs - Teaches students how to read and write paragraphs by introducing the rhetorical modes of patterns of development. It moves from personal writing to more academic types of writing: describing, narrating, illustrating, and analyzing a process, comparing and contrasting, dividing and classifying, defining, analyzing causes and effects, arguing.  
  • Part III: Paragraphs in Context-Helps students move from writing effective paragraphs to writing effective essays. This section systematically illustrates the relationship between a paragraph and an essay.  
  • Part IV: The Handbook-Complete grammar/ usage handbook, including exercises, that covers eight units: Sentences, Verbs, Pronouns, Modifiers, Punctuation, Mechanics, Effective Sentences, and Choosing the Right Word.

 

Hallmark features of Mosaics:  Focusing on Paragraphs in Context:

 

  • Moves students systematically from personal to academic writing.
  • Teaches rhetorical modes as patterns of thought.
  • Integrates reading and writing throughout the text.
  • Uses both student and professional writing as models.
  • Introduces and demonstrated reading as a process.
  • Demonstrates all aspects of the writing process throughout student writing.
  • Features culturally diverse reading selections that are of high interest to students.
  • Teaches ten effective reading strategies.
  • Includes a complete handbook with exercises.
  • Offers worksheets for peer-evaluation and self evaluation.

 

New to Mosaics:  Focusing on Essays:

  • Part I Thoroughly Revised. Part I: The Reading and Writing Process revised include coverage of the reading process and critical reading.
  • Two Reading Chapters Added. Chapters 2, The Reading Process and Chapter 3, Reading Critically added to highlight importance of reading for good writing.
  • Professional Essays Integrated into Part II. Nineteen professional essays are completely integrated into Part II: Reading and Writing Effective Paragraphs, so students can access the essays where they need them.  
  • Reading Critically Boxes added. A Reading Critically box is added before each rhetorical strategy to help students get the most from their reading.

 

Technology:

 

MyWritingLab, a complete online learning program, provides better practice exercises to developing writers. And with better practice, your students will become better writers! What makes the practice in MyWritingLab better?

  • Diagnostic Testing: MyWritingLab's diagnostic test comprehensively assesses student skills in grammar. Students are given an individualized learning path based on the diagnostic's results, identifying the modules in areas where they most need help.
  • Progressive Learning: The heart of MyWritingLab is the progressive learning that takes place when students complete the Recall, Apply and Write exercises within each module.  Recall exercises test students on the basics of good writing skills. Apply exercises test students’ ability to improve others’writing. Write exercises challenge students to create their own well-written responses to open-ended questions.

Students move from literal comprehension (Recall) to critical comprehension (Apply) to demonstrating concepts to their own writing (Write). This progression of critical thinking, not available in any other online resource, enables students to truly master the skills and concepts they need to be successful writers.

  • Progress Tracker: All student work in MyWritingLab is captured in the Progress Tracker. Students can monitor their own progress and instructors can track the progress of their entire class in this flexible and easy-to-use tool.


New To This Edition

  • Part I Thoroughly Revised. Part I: The Reading and Writing Process revised include coverage of the reading process and critical reading.
  • Two Reading Chapters Added. Chapters 2, Reading Critically and Chapter 3, Writing Critically added to highlight importance of reading for good writing.
  • Reading Critically Boxes added. A Reading Critically box is added before each rhetorical strategy to help students get the most from their reading.
  • Unit Tests added.  Part IV: The Handbook has its own Unit Pre-test. These Pretests are at the end of the book. 


Table of Contents

Brief Contents

 

Part I Reading and Writing for Success in College

Chapter 1  Reading and Writing as Critical Thinking

Chapter 2  Reading Critically

Chapter 3  Writing Critically

Chapter 4  Revising  

Chapter 5  Editing  

 

Part II: Reading and Writing Effective Paragraphs  

Chapter 6   Describing  

Chapter 7   Narrating  

Chapter 8   Illustrating  

Chapter 9   Analyzing a Process  

Chapter 10 Comparing and Contrasting  

Chapter 11  Dividing and Classifying  

Chapter 12  Defining  

Chapter 13  Analyzing Causes and Effects  

Chapter 14  Arguing  

 

Part III: Essays: Paragraphs in Context  

Chapter 15  Recognizing an Essay  

Chapter 16  How to Read an Essay  

Chapter 17  How to Write an Essay  

Chapter 18  Revising and Editing a Student Essay  

Chapter 19  Revising and Editing Your Own Essay  

Chapter 20  Writing Workshop  

 

Part IV: The Handbook

Chapter 21  Introduction   359

Unit 1  Sentences

Chapter 22  Subjects and Verbs  

Chapter 23  Fragments  

Chapter 24  Fused Sentences and Comma Splices  

Unit 2  Verbs

Chapter 25  Regular and Irregular Verbs  

Chapter 26  Verb Tense  

Chapter 27  Subject-Verb Agreement  

Chapter 28  More on Verbs  

Unit 3  Pronouns

Chapter 29 Pronoun Problems  

Chapter 30  Pronoun Reference and Point of View  

Chapter 31  Pronoun Agreement  

Unit 4  Modifiers

Chapter 32  Adjectives  

Chapter 33  Adverbs  

Chapter 34  Modifier Errors  

Unit 5  Punctuation

Chapter 35  End Punctuation  

Chapter 36  Commas  

Chapter 37  Apostrophes  

Chapter 38  Quotation Marks  

Chapter 39  Other Punctuation Marks  

Unit 6  Mechanics

Chapter 40  Capitalization  

Chapter 41  Abbreviations and Numbers  

Unit 7  Effective Sentences

Chapter 42  Varying Sentence Structure  

Chapter 43  Parallelism  

Chapter 44  Combining Sentences  

Unit 8  Choosing the Right Words

Chapter 45  Standard and Nonstandard English  

Chapter 46  Easily Confused Words  

Chapter 47  Spelling  


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