Synopsis
Designed to prepare ESL students for the demands of academic writing, TRANSITIONS helps students more from writing paragraphs to essays and from concrete to abstract writing topics. Thematically arranged, the text integrates reading, writing, and grammar activities into each chapter while emphasizing the writing process and peer editing.The Second Edition updates the readings written by a wide range of culturally diverse, international authors and adds new supplemental reading lists to most chapters. To move students more quickly into essay writing, the Second Edition reduces the number of paragraph-writing assignments.Although intended for academically oriented intermediate to low-advanced ESL students, TRANSITIONS is flexible, allowing instructors to adapt it to various skill levels and different types of programs. The Instructor's Manual offers advice on tailoring the text to student needs and provides additional activities and exercises.
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Book Description
The second edition of the Student's Book updates the readings written by a wide range of culturally diverse international authors – and adds news supplemental reading lists to most chapters. To move students more quickly into essay writing, the second edition reduces the number of paragraph writing assignments. The book focuses on a single theme per chapter and integrates the reading grammar, and editing activities. It includes assignment-specific peer-response sheets, guides students through peer-response activities, and addresses grammar points in the editing checklist.
About the Author
A.W. (TONY) BATES is director of Distance Education and Technology in the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He has more than thirty years of experience in applying, managing, and researching the application of technologies to higher education and is one of the world's most quoted authors in the field of distance education. A founding member of the British Open University, he has also worked as a consultant on the use of technology in university teaching for the World Bank, UNESCO, state higher education commissions in the United States, the Canadian International Development Agency, and for universities and government ministries of education in over thirty countries.
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