The Word Combination Card: A Writer's Reference

Pro Lingua Learning

ISBN 10: 0979169976 ISBN 13: 9780979169977

Publisher: Pro Lingua Learning, 2012

Synopsis

The Word Combination Card helps students develop fluency, precision, and clarity in their academic writing. This unique resource features a full-color visual breakdown of essential academic sentence patterns, including those for cause-effect, comparison-contrast, exemplification, reporting information, topic sentences/thesis statements, and more. In addition, the Card includes an easy-to-follow guide to high-frequency collocations and a presentation of preposition use in academic contexts. A free downloadable Student Workbook is also available for Word Combination Card at ProLinguaLearning.com.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Alves, Ph.D., who co-authored The Word Combination Card with Michael C. Berman and Ray Gonzales, is a professor at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, where he has primarily taught college ESL (and Intro to Linguistics and Chinese) since 2001. He has also taught master's-level TESOL courses and has written about TESOL writing at the college level. Outside the U.S., he has taught TEFL and linguistics in Vietnam, Taiwan, and Macau. He has also co-authored The Grammar You Need series, published by Pro Lingua.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pro Lingua Learning
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979169976
• ISBN 13: 9780979169977
• Binding: Map
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 2