Along These Lines: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs - Softcover

Biays, John Sheridan; Wershoven, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131875221 ISBN 13: 9780131875227

Publisher: Pearson, 2006

Synopsis

For basic writing courses covering sentences and paragraphs. This text ships automatically with MyWritngLab.

 

Along These Lines better prepares students for their future writing courses! 

 

How do you prepare your students for their future writing courses? John Biays and Carol Wershoven believe you offer students constant reinforcement of the writing process. With a conversational tone and a blend of engaging activities, each writing chapter takes students through all of the steps of generating ideas, planning, drafting, and proofreading. Even the grammar chapters include sentence-generating and editing exercises as well as excerpts from powerful writers. 

The third edition continues this step-by-step instruction by:

• Including extensive but practical grammar instruction with three kinds of exercises: Practice, individual exercises; Collaborate, exercises to be completed with a partner or group; and Connect, editing exercises that apply grammar concepts to the writing of paragraphs.
• Integrating the writing process throughout EVERY writing chapter
• Offering comprehensive writing chapters: four initial chapters on the stages of writing and four self-contained chapters on the basic writing patterns: narrative, description, illustration, and process.

Along These Lines will help prepare your students by providing the best writing process coverage found in any basic writing series! 

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Prentice Hall's new online development writing course offers you all the advantages of a custom-build program without the hassle of writing it from scratch. This course supports and augments the ALONG THESE LINES series by John Sheridan Biays and Carol Wershoven. In this course, you have a complete array of writing concepts and exercises at your fingertips―to use just as it is presented or to be customized to fit your specific course syllabus.

Compatible with WebCT™, Blackboard, and eCollege platforms, ALONG THESE LINES Online includes the following features:

• Audio-enabled Chapter Overviews
• Chapter Objectives
• Lecture Notes
• Writing Workshops
• Computer-graded quizzes
• Essay questions
• E-mail accounts for each student and instructor

Course management includes the following features:

• A Wizard program that provides help in the initial stages of course development
• East-to-use interface to allow customization of layout, color schemes, and default settings to change content for individual pages
• Automatic grading of online tests wit scores kept in a customized class grade-book
• Ability to track the total and average time spent on each topic by each student

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0131875221
• ISBN 13: 9780131875227
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 540