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Resources for Writers with Readings (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card), 3/E
Elizabeth C. LongSacramento City College

ISBN-10: 0205634206
ISBN-13:  9780205634200

Publisher:  Longman
Copyright:  2009
Format:  Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 760 pp
Published:  10/29/2008
Status: Instock


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In Resources for Writers, Betsy Long provides students with the "resources" needed to become better writers: meaningful skill instruction, extensive practice, a supporting lab manual, and contemporary-themed readings.

 

Teaching writing through a structured, formulaic approach, the author integrates the writing process with the rhetorical modes to move students from paragraph development to the essay.  The discourse, exercises, and writing assignments in each chapter are linked by the cultural literacy theme of that chapter to engage students and broaden the context of writing. The grammar section, refined in the third edition, also contains exercises designed to assist students in mastering skills.   

 

Practice is abundant as a supplemental Lab Manual (separated from the text in this third edition) offers additional activities for each text chapter, and the newly-integrated MyWritingLab icons direct students to even more skill practice online at www.mywritinglab.com.


Features

  • The Four Cs (the mnemonic device–concise, credible, clear, correct) approach to skills is used consistently to reinforce corresponding skills and lead the student through the writing process steps.
  • Clear, highly accessible instruction and the text's contemporary, upbeat language will appeal to today's students. The tone is never condescending or stuffy.
  • A cultural literacy theme is introduced by a short “Culture Note” and then carried throughout the chapter in illustrations, sample paragraphs, and exercises. 
  • A highly visual design, improved in this new edition, offers more than nearly 100 color photos and 30 diagrams to elucidate cultural themes and pedagogical concepts and invite students to respond in writing. 
  • Peer evaluation and self-analysis play a large role in the text as students are encouraged to monitor their own progress through goal sheets and to work cooperatively with their peers using a peer editing worksheet.
  • Stimulating readings cover themes of interest to contemporary students: ethics, poverty, grades, habits, and so on.
  • MyWritingLab: Where better practice makes better writers! MyWritingLab, a complete online practice program with a 97% student-user approval rating, provides better practice exercises for developing writers.
    • Progressive Learning: The heart of MyWritingLab is the progressive learning in the Recall, Apply and Write exercises within each module: Students move from literal comprehension (Recall) to applying comprehension (Apply) to demonstrating concepts in their own writing (Write). This proven 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. 
    • A Text-Correlated Study Plan: Based on their text in use, students are automatically provided with a customized study plan that complements their textbook’s table of contents and extends textbook learning.
    • Progress-tracking grade book: All student work in MyWritingLab is captured in the site’s comprehensive grade book. Students can track their own progress and instructors can track the progress of their entire class (how and what students are doing) in this flexible and easy-to-use tool.
    • 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.
    • Additional resources for students in MyWritingLab include access SMARTHINKING paper review services, an interactive Study Skills website, and access to Research Navigator.


New To This Edition

  • The instruction and exercises have been refined for a streamlined, thinner text.
    • With this streamlined format, the lab manual is now a separate, optional item.            
  • A new chapter that discusses writing from visuals offers students the opportunity to hone their observation skills while developing their ideas through the use of details.     
  • The combination of Chapters 12 and 13 brings together the closely related topics of choosing the best words and writing sensitively.
  • A new Cultural Note on Freeganism has been added, keeping in step with the book’s thought-provoking and contemporary character.
  • In the new streamlined format, the punctuation and mechanics diagnostic test and the topics of dictionary use and essay format have been omitted; and the text-specific lab manual has been extracted and converted into a separate supplemental resource. 
  • Each chapter now ends with a Chapter Summary that recaps the main concepts and allows students to quickly and easily review what they have learned. 
  • Additional Writing Practices have been added at the end of each chapter to give students even more writing opportunities and allow them to reflect on the chapter’s Cultural Note.
  • MyWritingLab prompts have been integrated throughout the text to direct students to better practice.


Table of Contents

Part One - Getting Started
Chapter 1:       The Bases of Good Writing:  The Four Cs

Chapter 2:       Writing for a Reader and Reason

Part Two – The Writing Process

Chapter 3:       Prewriting:  Coming up with Ideas

Chapter 4:       Drafting:  First to Final Drafts

Chapter 5:       Making Changes:  Revision

Chapter 6:       Editing for Clarity and Correctness

Chapter 7:       Putting the Writing Process Steps Together

Part Three - The Elements of Good Writing

Chapter 8:       Writing an Effective Topic Sentence

Chapter 9:       Using Specific Examples for Support and Illustration

Chapter 10:     Organizing and Linking Your Ideas

Chapter 11:     Writing from Visuals

Chapter 12:     Choosing the Best Words for Sensitive Writing

Chapter 13:     Improving Your Spelling

Chapter 14:     Expanding Your Vocabulary

Part Four - Strategies for Paragraph Development 

Chapter 15:     Illustration and Example

Chapter 16:     Narration

Chapter 17:     Description

Chapter 18:     Classification and Division

Chapter 19:     Process Analysis

Chapter 20:     Compare and Contrast          

Chapter 21:     Cause and Effect

Chapter 22:     Definition

Chapter 23:     Argument

Part Five - Writing Essays

Chapter 24:     The Essay and the Thesis Statement

Chapter 25:     Prewriting for and Drafting  an  Essay

Chapter 26:     Revising an Essay

Part Six - Writing for Different Purposes

Chapter 27:     Essay Exams

Chapter 28:     Writing Summaries    

Chapter 29:     Writing to Get a Job

Online Chapter: Writing a Research Essay

Part Seven - Writing Correct Sentences

Grammar diagnostic test

Chapter 30:     Prepositional Phrases

Chapter 31:     Subjects and Verbs

Chapter 32:     Clauses

Chapter 33:     Run-On Sentences

Chapter 34:     Fragments

Chapter 35:     Regular Verbs

Chapter 36:     Irregular Verbs

Chapter 37      Subject-Verb Agreement

Chapter 38:     Verb Tense and Tense Consistency

Chapter 39:     Pronoun Types

Chapter 40:     Pronoun Agreement, Pronoun Reference, and Point of View

Chapter 41:     Adjectives and Adverbs

Chapter 42:     Misplaced Modifiers

Chapter 43:     Dangling Modifiers

Chapter 44:     Errors in Parallelism

Part Eight – Punctuation and Mechanics

Chapter 45:     Commas

Chapter 46:     Apostrophes

Chapter 47:     Quotation Marks

Chapter 48:     Other Punctuation Marks: Colons and Semi-colons, Parentheses, Dashes, and Hyphens

Chapter 49:     Capitalization

Chapter 50:     Numbers and Abbreviations

Chapter 51:     Words that Look Alike and Sound Alike

Chapter 52:     Sentence Combining for Sentence Variation

Chapter 53:     Tips for Second-Language Writers

Part Nine - Readings for Informed Writing

Tips for Reading Effectively

Thematic units:

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Companion Website for Resources for Writers with Readings, 3/E
Long
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ISBN-10: 0205685374  |  ISBN-13: 9780205685370
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MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Instant Access -- for Resources for Writers with Readings, 3/E
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ISBN-10: 0205758401  |  ISBN-13: 9780205758401
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Student Access Codes

MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Resources for Writers with Readings, 3/E
Long
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ISBN-10: 0205758398  |  ISBN-13: 9780205758395
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MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card
Pearson
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ISBN-10: 0205752624  |  ISBN-13: 9780205752621
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Instructor Access Codes

MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Instructor Access Code
Pearson Longman
©2007  |  Longman  |  Digital Access Code  |  Available
ISBN-10: 032142879X  |  ISBN-13: 9780321428790
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Instructor's Manual and Test Bank for Resources for Writers with Readings, 3/E
Rowland & Sbaratta
©2009  |  Longman  |  Paper; 450 pp  |  Instock
ISBN-10: 0205651755  |  ISBN-13: 9780205651757

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Research Chapter for Resources for Writers with Readings, 3/E
Long
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TestGen Computerized Test Bank for Resources for Writers with Readings, 3/E
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Annotated Instructor's Edition for Resources for Writers with Readings, 3/E
Long
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ISBN-10: 0205651747  |  ISBN-13: 9780205651740
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Companion Website for Resources for Writers with Readings, 3/E
Long
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MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Instant Access -- for Resources for Writers with Readings, 3/E
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MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Instructor Access Code
Pearson Longman
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MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Resources for Writers with Readings, 3/E
Long
©2010  |  Longman  |  Access Code Card; 848 pp  |  Instock
ISBN-10: 0205758398  |  ISBN-13: 9780205758395
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MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card
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ISBN-10: 0205752624  |  ISBN-13: 9780205752621
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Companion Website for Resources for Writers with Readings, 3/E
Long
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ISBN-10: 0205685374  |  ISBN-13: 9780205685370
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MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Instant Access -- for Resources for Writers with Readings, 3/E
Long
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Lab Manual for Resources for Writers with Readings, 3/E
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ISBN-10: 0205651763  |  ISBN-13: 9780205651764
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