English Brushup - Softcover

Langan, John; Goldstein, Janet M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072818905 ISBN 13: 9780072818901

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2002

Synopsis

This quick and and practical guide to grammar, punctuation, and usage skills contains important features that distinguish it from other grammar workbooks. The text's three-part format highlights the 16 most vital grammar skills up front, leaving the rest of the text for secondary topics and additional grammar activities. A self-teaching approach enables students to see exactly what they need to brush up on, and gives them focused examples and practice exercises to speed them to mastery. Finally, the manageable size and short, well-organized chapters give students just the coverage they need.

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From the Publisher

Mastery Tests: Part Three contains an additional bank of ten mastery tests and five editing tests.
Overview of the Writing Process: The student introduction has been expanded to include an overview of the writing process, along with examples and practice.
Practice Exercises have been revised and updated throughout.
Three-Part Format: The text's three-part format highlights the most vital grammar skills up front, leaving the rest of the text for secondary topics and additional grammar activities.
Self-Teaching Approach: This approach enables students to see exactly what they need to brush up on, and gives them focused examples and practice exercises to speed them to mastery.
Size and Price: English Brushup's brevity, inexpensive price, and well-organized chapters give students just the coverage they need at a price they can afford.

About the Author

John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College for more than 25 years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing instructive materials that are clear and lively. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously. While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and conveying to nonreaders the pleasure and power of books. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit Townsend Librarya collection of more than 100 new and classic stories that appeal to readers of any age.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0072818905
• ISBN 13: 9780072818901
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 244