Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond: With Integrated Readings - Softcover

Brandon, Lee; Brandon, Kelly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1133591922 ISBN 13: 9781133591924

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

SENTENCES, PARAGRAPHS, AND BEYOND is the first in the popular two-level Brandon series, which helps the student learn to both read and write at the college level, by providing instruction on reading techniques (and barriers), the basics of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling, as well as the writing process and common writing patterns; lively, engaging readings provide student as well as professional models.

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About the Author

Lee Brandon is the author of twelve college English textbooks with Cengage Learning, including the best-selling series, Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond with Integrated Readings, and Paragraphs and Essays with Integrated Readings and the highly successful At a Glance series. He has served as chair of the English Department at Mt. San Antonio College, where he taught for more than thirty years and occasionally still teaches. Few authors are as active in the promotion of their books as Lee Brandon, who regularly visits schools across the country and presents at professional conferences. Lee also has to his credit poems and short stories in magazines; songs recorded and in sheet music; a best-selling musical play for elementary school students (in print with Lorenz Music); a play produced by a college drama department; a published Ford Foundation grant project; a chapbook of ballads about his youth, Oklahoma, My Sweet Sorrow; a chapbook of ballads about his experience teaching for ten years in a high-security California women's prison, Butterflies on Barbwire; and newspaper articles about travel, adventures, and whimsical experiences. A partner in the father-son writing team for the best-selling series, Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond, 5e, and Paragraphs and Essays, 10e, Kelly is a tenured professor of English at Santa Ana College. His B.A. is from the University of California at Los Angeles and his M.A. is from the University of California at Santa Barbara. For recreation he lifts weights, backpacks, plays the clarinet, and drives his fully restored 1953 yellow and white Chevrolet Bel Air.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1133591922
• ISBN 13: 9781133591924
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560