English Skills with Readings - Softcover

Langan, John

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9780073384115: English Skills with Readings

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073384119 ISBN 13: 9780073384115

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2007

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The new seventh edition of English Skills with Readings features John Langan's trademark crystal-clear explanations, along with his range of motivating activities and writing assignments that reinforce the four bases of effective writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. This edition of the book adds a variety of exciting new features to John Langan's proven approach, and reinstates much-requested materials from previous editions.

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Technology Advice and Support
New Readings: All the Good Things, Helen Mrosla; Fifth Chinese Daughter, Jade Snow Wong; Ticket to Nowhere, Andy Rooney; How They Get You to Do That, Janny Scott;
Dealing with Feelings, Rudolph Verderber; Bullies in School, Kathleen Berger
The Internet: A revised and updated chapter on using the library includes helpful advice on using the internet.
Model Research Paper: This new paper follows the latest MLA guidelines and incorporates a variety of electronic sources.
New Chapter for Non-Native
Speakers: The Fifth Edition has a new chapter in the Sentence Skills section for non-native speakers. It is complete with exercises and activities.
More Process: A new chapter in Part One, The Writing Process, uses sample student paragraphs to demonstrate how prewriting and revision are essential parts of the act of writing, and a major new section on revising sentences has been added.

About the Author:

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for over twenty years. The author of a popular series of college textbook on both reading and writing, he enjoys the challenge of developinging materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Glassboro State Collee. He also spent a year writing fiction.

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