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A Thematic Reader and Guide to Writing - Softcover

Joy, Anna

 
9781413002164: A Thematic Reader and Guide to Writing

Synopsis

The path to effective writing begins with this text. We Are America: A Thematic Reader and Guide to Writing, Fifth Edition, is your map to the writing process, to enhancing your reading skills, and to understanding how you can communicate successfully by mastering the essential elements of writing - unity, coherence, completeness, and sentence skills.
We Are America is far more than a textbook. It is at once a writing handbook and a reader filled with provocative selections that not only illustrate the writing process, but also reflect the wonderfully diverse American experience of our different cultural and ethnic groups.

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Review

The Writing Skills Workshop at the end of the book is a great tool. It allows students a quick and easy review of grammar and basic writing. It is also not too complex, as some grammar books tend to be.

Synopsis

This textbook identifies the principles behind well-written paragraphs and essays, provides 12 model essays for analysis, introduces the process of writing research papers, and reviews grammar to help students master basic sentence skills. The model essays reflect culturally and ethnically diverse points of view. The fifth edition adds seven select

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