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Bedford/St. Martin's Planner with Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips

Author : Lois Hassan

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 180 pages

File Size : 42,80 MB

Release : 2008-12-17

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780312480233

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Book Description

Includes everything that students need to plan and use their time effectively, offering advice on preparing schedules and to-do lists and providing blank schedules and calendars (monthly and weekly) for planning. Integrated into the planner are tips from the popular Grammar Girl podcast (and from other podcast hosts); quick advice on fixing common grammar errors, note-taking, and succeeding on tests; an address book; and an annotated list of useful websites. The planner fits easily into a backpack or purse so students can take it anywhere.



The Bedford/St. Martin's Planner: With Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips

Author : Lois Hassan

Publisher : Bedford Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 34,20 MB

Release : 2009-06

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780312606428

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Book Description

This handy resource has everything students need to get organized, with a calendar for mapping out school, work, and everyday life commitments, and more. It's compact and light enough to fit into a backpack, briefcase, or purse.



Successful College Writing with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates

Author : Kathleen T. McWhorter

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 930 pages

File Size : 31,8 MB

Release : 2010-05-19

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0312667744

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Book Description

Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Reading specialist Kathleen McWhorter understands that students are often lacking in the skills they need to succeed in the first-year writing course and need a text that doesn’t assume they have mastered all the basics. Successful College Writing meets students where they are, offering extensive instruction in careful and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 64 professional and student readings that provide strong rhetorical models, as well as an easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition. McWhorter’s unique visual approach to learning uses graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and other visual tools to help students analyze texts and write their own essays. Her unique attention to varieties of learning styles also helps empower students, allowing them to identify their strengths and learning preferences.



Successful College Writing Brief with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Update

Author : Kathleen T. McWhorter

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 788 pages

File Size : 48,65 MB

Release : 2010-12-06

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0312619162

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All the help students need to succeed Because so many first-year writing students lack the basic skills the course demands, reading specialist McWhorter gives them steady guidance through the challenges they face in academic work. Successful College Writing offers extensive instruction in active and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 61 readings that provide strong rhetorical models, as well as an easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition. McWhorter’s unique visual approach to learning uses graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and other visual tools to help students analyze texts and write their own essays. Her unique attention to varieties of learning styles also helps empower students, allowing them to identify their strengths and learning preferences. "Successful College Writing is not just about the mastery of academic discourse. It’s a leader in its genre because it helps students acquire valuable strategies for creating effective texts that are associated with expert professional communication in general." — Lilia Savova, Indiana University of Pennsylvania



Real Essays with Readings with 2009 MLA Update

Author : Susan Anker

Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan

Page : 946 pages

File Size : 37,25 MB

Release : 2009-06-23

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0312607555

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Book Description

Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Real Essays with Readings is the essay-level book in Susan Anker’s highly successful series of writing texts that motivate students with their message that writing is an essential skill in college and in real life — and that this skill is achievable. Anker’s advice, examples, and assignments show the relevance of writing to all aspects of students’ lives, and profiles of former students prove that success is attainable. Like all the books in the Anker series, Real Essays presents writing in logical, manageable increments: step-by-step writing guides and a focus on the "four basics" of each mode of writing keep students from becoming overwhelmed. Real Essays maintains its emphasis on what really matters by focusing on the four most serious errors (fragments, run-ons, subject-verb agreement problems, and verb form problems). Real Essays gives students what they need to succeed in college and become stronger academic writers.



Focus on Writing

Author : Laurie G. Kirszner

Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education

Page : 817 pages

File Size : 42,2 MB

Release : 2011-01-31

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1457602504

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Focus on Writing: Paragraphs and Essays is a clear, inviting text that engages students visually, demonstrates concepts with color and highlighting, and offers students the support and coverage they need to write well in college. Focus on Writing offers the unique self-assessment tool TEST (Topic sentence, Evidence, Summary statement, and Transitions), which works clearly and simply to motivate students and empowers them to become capable writers and self-editors. In this revision, best-selling authors Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell provide more support for moving from paragraph to essay, more step-by-step coverage of the writing process, and more diverse examples, exercises, and models, making the text both student-friendly and thorough.





Grammar Girl Presents the Ultimate Writing Guide for Students

Author : Mignon Fogarty

Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin

Page : 312 pages

File Size : 18,25 MB

Release : 2011-07-05

Category : Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN : 1429966661

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Book Description

Named to the International Reading Association's 2012 Teachers' Choice book list Grammar Girl Presents the Ultimate Writing Guide for Students is a complete and comprehensive guide to all things grammar from Grammar Girl, a.k.a. Mignon Fogarty, whose popular podcasts have been downloaded over twenty million times and whose first book, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, was a New York Times bestseller. For beginners to more advanced students, this guide covers it all: the parts of speech, sentences, and punctuation are all explained clearly and concisely with the warmth, wit, and accessibility Grammar Girl is known for. Pop quizzes are scattered throughout to reinforce the explanations, as well as Grammar Girl's trademark Quick and Dirty Tips—easy and fun memory tricks to help with those challenging rules. Complete with a writing style chapter and a guide to the different kinds of writing—everything from school papers to letter writing to e-mails—this guide is sure to become the one-stop, essential book on every student's desk.



Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Author : Mignon Fogarty

Publisher : Henry Holt and Company

Page : 236 pages

File Size : 46,16 MB

Release : 2008-07-08

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1429977493

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Online sensation Grammar Girl makes grammar fun and easy in this New York Times bestseller Are you stumped by split infinitives? Terrified of using "who" when a "whom" is called for? Do you avoid the words "affect" and "effect" altogether? Grammar Girl is here to help! Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, is determined to wipe out bad grammar—but she's also determined to make the process as painless as possible. A couple of years ago, she created a weekly podcast to tackle some of the most common mistakes people make while communicating. The podcasts have now been downloaded more than twenty million times, and Mignon has dispensed grammar tips on Oprah and appeared on the pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. Written with the wit, warmth, and accessibility that the podcasts are known for, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing covers the grammar rules and word-choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers. From "between vs. among" and "although vs. while" to comma splices and misplaced modifiers, Mignon offers memory tricks and clear explanations that will help readers recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules. Chock-full of tips on style, business writing, and effective e-mailing, Grammar Girl's print debut deserves a spot on every communicator's desk.



The Grammar Devotional

Author : Mignon Fogarty

Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin

Page : 245 pages

File Size : 39,99 MB

Release : 2009-10-27

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1429964405

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Book Description

Millions of fans around the globe punctuate properly and communicate clearly thanks to Mignon Fogarty's practical and easy-to-remember advice about writing style and word usage. Her first book, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and her weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 100 million times and hailed by USA Today as "authoritative but warm." Now, in tip-of-the-day form, Grammar Girl serves up 365 lessons on language that are sure to inspire. Filled with new, bite-size writing tips, fun quizzes and puzzles, and efficient memory tricks, The Grammar Devotional gives you a daily dose of knowledge to improve your writing and also serves as a lasting reference you'll use for years to come.