Transitions: An Interactive Reading, Writing, and Grammar Text (Transitions Second Edition) - Softcover

Bates, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312133731 ISBN 13: 9780312133733

Publisher: St Martins Press, 1900

Synopsis

This book bridges the gap between writing paragraphs and writing essays. 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 this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: St Martins Press
• Publication date: 1900
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312133731
• ISBN 13: 9780312133733
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 380