Writing to Learn 1: Student Book: The Sentence - Softcover

Spaventa, Lou; Spaventa, Marilynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072307536 ISBN 13: 9780072307535

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2000

Synopsis

Writing to Learn is a process and product-based writing series that spans four levels - beginning, low-intermediate, high-intermediate, and advanced. The goal of the series is is to take students from writing good sentences to writing clear and effective essays. Each book makes use of students' skills and experiences to generate writing topics.

Each of the Writing to Learn texts is designed to help students improve their writing for academic and vocational success. Throughout the series an emphasis is placed on vocabulary acquisition, grammar practice, and writing, editing, rewriting, and journaling skills.

Writing to Learn, The Sentence is aimed at beginning to high-beginning students and is designed to improve student ability in writing accurate and descriptive English sentences.

About this title

From the Publisher

In each chapter of every book, the prewriting and structure activities build toward a specific writing task. Editing is a regular, integrated step in the writing process, even at the beginning level.
Grammar structures are chosen due to their relevance and bearing upon the specific writing task that students are practicing. The grammar exercises also serve as models for writing.
Various writing samples appear within the structure and editing exercises, giving students a variety of examples to learn from.
Chapter-culminating journal writing topics allow students to synthesize what they have studied and practiced in the chapter.
Each annotated Teacher's Edition includes specific teaching notes and chapter quizzes.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072307536
• ISBN 13: 9780072307535
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144