Real Skills Interactive: A Brief Guide to Writing Sentences and Paragraphs - Softcover

Anker, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1457654105 ISBN 13: 9781457654107

Publisher: Bedford/st Martins, 2013

Synopsis

Real Skills Interactive offers practical coverage of sentence-to-paragraph level writing skills in a brief, interactive, and affordable format. The print component offers the essentials of Anker’s accessible writing instruction along with a number of focused grammar practice activities; additional exercises are available online in LearningCurve, adaptive, game-like quizzing that helps students focus on the material they most need help with.  As with all books in the Anker series, Real Skills Interactive motivates students with its message that writing is an essential and achievable skill and encourages students to connect what they learn with their own goals and with the needs and expectations of the larger world.

About this title

About the Author

Susan Anker (BA, MEd, Boston University) brings a unique perspective to the teaching of the developmental writing course. She taught English and developmental writing before entering college publishing, where she worked for eighteen years: as a sales representative and English/ESL editor at Macmillan Publishing Company; as developmental English/ESL editor, executive editor, and editor in chief at St. Martin’s Press; and as vice president and editor in chief for humanities at Houghton Mifflin Company. In each of these positions, she worked with developmental writing instructors and students, maintaining her early interest in the field. Since the publication of the first edition of Real Writing in 1998, Anker has traveled extensively to campuses across the country, continuing her conversations with instructors and students and giving workshops and presentations. She believes that the writing course is, for many students, their first, best opportunity to learn the skills they will need to succeed in college and achieve their goals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1457654105
• ISBN 13: 9781457654107
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 245