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Wordsmith: A Guide to College Writing (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card), 4/E
Pamela Sh Arlov, Macon State College

ISBN-10: 0205703313
ISBN-13: 9780205703319

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2010
Format: Paper Package; 606 pp
Published: 12/29/2008
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Wordsmith was written to counter students’ objections to textbooks being too dry, too irrelevant, and too big, and is Pearson’s value-priced option that students will appreciate across the developmental writing curriculum.

Pamela Arlov wrote the Wordsmith series for instructors who genuinely want to connect with their students. To engage students and enable instructors to meet students where they are, Pam Arlov provides students with just the right balance of instruction and practice via relevant instruction, plenty of visuals, and an inviting writing style that students really respond to. Wordsmith covers the rhetorical modes, is realistic, and does not overwhelm students with too much information.

Features

A direct, engaging, conversational style appeals to students and makes reading less tedious.
The use of real world examples helps students to connect to the text and heightens their learning.
Wordsmith is briefer and less expensive than many similar texts on the market.
The three-part layout empowers instructors to mix and match writing chapters, grammar chapters, and readings.
The mixing of rhetorical modes groups them together based on usage in actual writing and mirrors realistic writing strategies.
A full chapter on research, including guidelines for MLA and APA style citations, prepares students for future courses.

New To This Edition

Each chapter now opens with a "Focus On" box that use real world examples to show how that chapter's topic can make an impact.

APA style guidelines were added to Chapter 12 (“Writing a Research Paper”).

Two new chapters have been added to the Grammar section: “Coordination and Subordination” and “Sentences with Style.”

Table of Contents

PART I: Composition

1. The Writing Process

2. Preparing to Write

3. Building a Framework: Thesis and Organization

4. Introducing the Essay

5. Developing Body Paragraphs

6. Concluding the Essay

7. Revising, Proofreading, and Formatting

8. Showing and Telling: Description, Narration, and Example

9. Limiting and Ordering Definition, Classification, and Process

10. Examining Logical Connections: Comparison-Contrast, Cause-Effect, and Argument

11. Writing a Summary

12. Writing a Research Paper

PART II: Grammar

13. Verbs and Subjects

14. Subject-Verb Agreement

15. Coordination and Subordination

16. Run-on Sentences

17. Sentence Fragments

18. Pronoun Case

19. Pronoun Agreement, Reference, and Point of View

20. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

21. Parallel Structure

22. Verb Shifts

23. Sentences with Style

24. Commas

25. Other Punctuation

26. Word Choice

27. Words Commonly Confused

28. Capital Letters

29. Apostrophes

30. Quotation Marks, Underlining, and Italics

Part III: Readings

Two Ways of Seeing a River, Mark Twain

Growing Up Bilingual, Sara Gonzalez

The Game of My Life, Jeff Obafemi Carr

When Words Get in the Way, Athlone G. Clarke

Letting in Light, Patricia Raybon

Coping with Procrastination, Roberta Moore, Barbara Baker, and Arnold H. Packer

Migraine Blues, Candace Dyer

The Right to Die, Norman Cousins

The Brutal Business of Boxing, John Head

Date Rape: Exposing Dangerous Myths, John J. Macionis

Reading, Writing, and...Ethics?, Larry Fennelly

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Wordsmith: Guide to College Writing (Book Alone), 3/E
Arlov
©2007 | Longman | Paper; 624 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131949934  | ISBN-13: 9780131949935
Suggested retail price: $86.20  Net price: $64.65  (What's this?)Brief Description  |
Wordsmith: A Guide to College Writing is appropriate essay level basic writing or first year composition courses. This text ships automatically with MyWritngLab.

What do your students want in a textbook?

Your life’s work is centered on connecting to your students and preparing them for productive futures. Pamela Arlov created the Wordsmith series to help you connect with your students. We asked professors what they thought their students would want in a textbook. Here’s what we heard and how Wordsmith addresses today’s students:

1)       Students find textbooks dry and tedious. Arlov includes engaging grammar openers, plenty of visuals, and has a writing style that is second to none!

2)       Students find textbooks irrelevant to their lives. Arlov’s combination of the rhetorical modes is realistic and models real life writing. She has also added “Real Writing” examples in the modes chapters to make Wordsmith even more relevant to students’ lives.

3)       Students become frustrated if the entire text is not used in class. Wordsmith is 100 pages briefer than similar texts on the market and an affordable option. This concise approach also does not overwhelm students with too much information. Wordsmith provides students with just the right balance of instruction and practice!

The Wordsmith series is your value-packed option that students will appreciate while mastering key writing and grammar skills.

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Wordsmith: Guide to College Writing (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card), 3/E
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©2007 | Longman | Paper Bound with PIN; 624 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205723144  | ISBN-13: 9780205723140
Suggested retail price: $86.40  Net price: $64.80  (What's this?)Brief Description  |
Wordsmith: A Guide to College Writing is appropriate essay level basic writing or first year composition courses. This text ships automatically with MyWritngLab.

What do your students want in a textbook?

Your life’s work is centered on connecting to your students and preparing them for productive futures. Pamela Arlov created the Wordsmith series to help you connect with your students. We asked professors what they thought their students would want in a textbook. Here’s what we heard and how Wordsmith addresses today’s students:

1)       Students find textbooks dry and tedious. Arlov includes engaging grammar openers, plenty of visuals, and has a writing style that is second to none!

2)       Students find textbooks irrelevant to their lives. Arlov’s combination of the rhetorical modes is realistic and models real life writing. She has also added “Real Writing” examples in the modes chapters to make Wordsmith even more relevant to students’ lives.

3)       Students become frustrated if the entire text is not used in class. Wordsmith is 100 pages briefer than similar texts on the market and an affordable option. This concise approach also does not overwhelm students with too much information. Wordsmith provides students with just the right balance of instruction and practice!

The Wordsmith series is your value-packed option that students will appreciate while mastering key writing and grammar skills.
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