Foundations First
Author : Laurie G. Kirszner
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780312413361
Writing First with Readings
Author : Laurie G. Kirszner
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1457605406
Book Description
Best-selling authors and veteran college writing instructors Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell believe that students learn to write best when they use their own writing as a starting point. In Writing First with Readings: Practice in Context, designed for the paragraph to essay course, Kirszner and Mandell take seriously the ideas and expressive abilities of developmental students, as well as their need to learn the rules of writing and grammar. Visual writing prompts that open every chapter get students writing immediately. By moving frequently between their own writing, writing models and instruction, and workbook-style mastery exercises, students get constant reinforcement of the skills they are learning. Thoughtful chapters on college success, research, and critical reading, along with high-interest essays, round out the text, making it the perfect introduction to college writing. Read the preface.
Supplemental Exercises for Foundations First with Readings
Author : Laurie G. Kirszner
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0312583710
Book Description
Foundations First guides students through the process of writing sentences and paragraphs with simple explanations, appealing visuals, and student-friendly examples. Kirszner and Mandell's compelling approach lets students practice grammar in the context of their own writing and helps prepare them for success in college composition and beyond. Treating students with respect -- a hallmark of the Kirszner and Mandell approach -- the book also addresses study skills, ESL concerns, vocabulary development, and critical reading, providing beginning writers with all the support they need to master the essentials of good writing. The fourth edition gives students even more help transitioning into college, with new coverage on communicating in college and new tips for college success. Read the preface.
Instruct Annotated Ed Foundations First
Author : Laurie G. Kirszner
Publisher : Bedford Books
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2001-12
Category : College readers
ISBN : 9780312394233
Book Description
Authors of an array of widely adopted texts, Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell have taught college composition and basic writing for more than 25 years. Using their keen sense of what works best in the classroom, they have created Foundations First and Writing First, an innovative, accessible two-book sequence that teaches students grammar in the context of their own writing. Foundations First provides a comprehensive treatment of the process of writing sentences and paragraphs; Writing First offers comparable treatment of the process of writing paragraphs and essays. Both books also address study skills, ESL concerns, vocabulary development, and critical reading, providing beginning writers with all the support they need for success in college and beyond.
Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond
Author : Lee E. Brandon
Publisher : Heinle & Heinle Publishers
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781285097473
Book Description
SENTENCES, PARAGRAPHS, AND BEYOND: WITH INTEGRATED READINGS, 7E, International Edition 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.
Why I Write
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1913724263
Book Description
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Foundations Phonics
Author : Carrie Lindquist
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 0890519439
Book Description
An easy and fun approach to teaching your child to read A stand-alone phonics & reading program, flexible for use in either kindergarten or first gradeA workbook filled with lessons, instructions, and suggested hands-on activities for a full semester of studySuggested hands-on activities will utilize materials typically found in the kitchen or playroom (e.g., crayons, markers, flour, rice, play-dough) This unique curriculum will take your student on a journey from the beginning of creation to the Resurrection of Christ as they learn each letter and corresponding sound. Designed to meet the needs of students who are ready to begin writing, as well as those who may not have mastered the hand-eye coordination skills yet that are needed for writing.
Foundations First with Readings
Author : Laurie G. Kirszner
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 2007-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780312459895
Book Description
Authors of widely adopted college texts, Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell have taught college composition and basic writing for more than twenty-five years. Using their finely-tuned sense of what works best in the classroom, they have created Foundations First: Sentences and Paragraphs and Writing First: Practice in Context, an innovative, accessible two-book sequence that teaches students fundamental writing and grammar skills in the context of their own writing. Treating students with respect -- a hallmark of the Kirszner and Mandell approach -- both books also address study skills, ESL concerns, vocabulary development, and critical reading, providing beginning writers with all the support they need to master the essentials of good writing.
This Is Pleasure
Author : Mary Gaitskill
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1524749141
Book Description
Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.
Focus on Writing
Author : Laurie G. Kirszner
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780312603410
Book Description
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.
