English Brushup - Softcover

Langan, John; Goldstein, Janet M.

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ISBN 10: 0073123765 ISBN 13: 9780073123769

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2006

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The fourth edition of this quick 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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Introduces a new chapter, "Sentence Types," to give students practice in sentence combining and sentence variety
Expands the section on pronouns to include both intensive and interrogative pronouns
Supplies example answers in a second color for students (a different type font is used in the Instructor's Edition)
Revises directions and practice items throughout so that each activity and test works as clearly and effectively as possible
Arranged in a flexible, two-part format'Part One, "Sixteen Basic Skills," focuses on key topics in grammar, punctuation and usage; Part Two, "Extending the Skills," provides secondary information about these skills and also covers additional topics
Features a self-teaching approach. The first page of every chapter in Part One begins with an informal test'and then provides the answers and explanations
Provides a wide variety of examples, exercises, and tests for needed practice and reinforcement
New chapter, "Sentence Types"
Expanded section on pronouns
Supplies example answers in a second color for selected exercises and tests
Revised directions and exercises
Two-part, modular format
Self-teaching approach
Variety of examples and exercises
Review tests in every chapter

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.

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