This combined rhetoric/worktext is designed for basic skills writing courses that focus on the paragraph. "English Skills" features John Langan's clear explanations and his wide range of motivating activities and assignments that reinforce the Four Bases of Effective Writing: Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills.
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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.
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.
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.
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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