Gateways to Academic Writing
Meyers, Alan
ISBN 10: 0131408887 ISBN 13: 9780131408883
Published by Pearson Education, 2004
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Gateways to Academic Writing: Effective Sentences, Paragraphs, and Essays, by Alan Meyers, provides a fully integrated program of writing instruction for high-intermediate to advanced students of English. The book's four units give students the tools they need to improve their academic writing. Unit I introduces the writing process, from exploring ideas, organizing, and drafting to revising, editing, and proofreading. Unit II examines the ten modes of writing, including narration, all forms of exposition, persuasion, and summary and response. Unit III presents key terminology, sentence structures, and verb tenses and forms. Unit IV gives students extensive editing practice, including Editing for Mastery exercises.
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Gateways to Academic Writing: Effective Sentences, Paragraphs, and Essays provides a fully integrated program of writing instruction for high-intermediate to advanced students of English. The book's four units give students the tools they need to improve their academic writing. Unit I introduces the writing process, from exploring ideas, organizing, and drafting to revising, editing, and proofreading. Unit II examines the ten modes of writing, including narration, all forms of exposition, persuasion, and summary and response. Unit III presents key terminology, sentence structures, and verb tenses and forms. Unit IV gives students extensive editing practice, including Editing for Mastery exercises.
Features
- Clear explanations, practical and contextualized exercises, and visual aids make this book easy to use.
- Examples of professional and student writing provide students with meaningful models.
- Guidelines for Success at the end of each unit summarize key learning points.
- Nine additional readings provide examples of rhetorical modes, practice in close reading, questions for analysis, and writing prompts.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Gateways to Academic Writing
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine
Edition: writing Edition.