The Easy Writer


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A textbook of formal English composition, which provides explanations of grammar, composition and argumentation, coupled with examples of common university styles of writing and exercises suitable for students to work in both directed teaching and self-paced learning. It is aimed at the encouragement of competent formal writing ability.




Technical Report Writing Today


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TECHNICAL REPORT WRITING TODAY provides thorough coverage of technical writing basics, techniques, and applications. Through a practical focus with varied examples and exercises, students internalize the skills necessary to produce clear and effective documents and reports. Project worksheets help students organize their thoughts and prepare for assignments, and Focus boxes highlight key information and recent developments in technical communication. Extensive individual and collaborative exercises expose students to different kinds of technical writing problems and solutions. Annotated student examples--more than 100 in all--illustrate different writing styles and approaches to problems. Numerous short and long examples throughout the text demonstrate solutions for handling writing assignments in current career situations. The four-color artwork in the chapter on creating visuals keeps pace with contemporary workplace capabilities. The Tenth Edition offers the latest information on using electronic resumes and documenting electronic sources and Ethics and Globalization sidebars that highlight these two important topics in the technical communication field. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.




Monsters


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"The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series brings critical topics to life in a portable, cost-effective reader. In this volume, you'll explore these questions: why do we create monsters -- and why are we attracted to them? How do monsters adapt to reflect the values, beliefs, and culture of the times? Is the monster within us? Readings by a range of classic poets, contemporary fiction writers, pop-culture critics, philosophers, psychologists, occultists, ethicists, historians, and others take up these questions and more. The book helps you form your own questions and responses as you investigate and write about this popular and intellectually rich topic." -- From back cover.




EasyWriter with Exercises


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When your students need reliable, easy-to-find writing advice for college and beyond, EasyWriter with Exercises gives them what they need in a format that’s easy to afford. Andrea Lunsford meets students where there are with friendly advice, research-based tips for solving the Top Twenty writing problems, and an emphasis on making effective rhetorical choices. The seventh edition puts even more emphasis on empowering students to become critical thinkers and ethical communicators with new advice about fact checking and evaluating sources and more advice about choosing language that builds common ground. In addition, the seventh edition offers more support for writing in a variety of disciplines and genres and more models of student writing to help students make effective choices in any context. EasyWriter with Exercises can be packaged at a significant discount with LaunchPad Solo for Lunsford Handbooks, which includes dozens of additional writing models as well as exercises, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, videos, and podcasts.




Texts and Contexts


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It is assumed in this text that if inexperienced writers are to learn to write essays, they must begin as soon as possible. The part of the writing process most central to their learning is the one involving the shaping of the text.




From Idea to Essay


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Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond


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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.




Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners


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This comprehensive textbook prepares all teachers to teach English languagelearners (ELLs). It is widely used in undergraduate and graduate programs, including:- Elementary and secondary teacher education- Literacy and special education- TESOL and bilingual educationWayne Wright's deep respect for educational practitioners and his passion for Englishlanguage learners' right to a fair and full education are evident in every word he writes. Hisbook and companion website offer a vision and pathway toward fostering dynamic learningcommunities across schools, teacher education programs, and communities to improveeducation for ELLs. The rest is up to us.-Nancy H. Hornberger, University of PennsylvaniaNew to the Third EditionThe textbook and companion website are completely updated while retaining the practicalfeatures of the first and second editions. Readers will find:- New federal regulations, accountability requirements, and flexibility for ELLs under theEvery Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)- A stronger multilingual perspective on ELL education, with attention to new research,theory, and practice on dynamic bilingualism and translanguaging- New research on language, literacy, and content-area instruction for ELLs from theNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine- The integration of new principles by Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languagesfor the exemplary teaching of ELLs- New information about the Seal of Biliteracy, now approved by more than 35 states andthe District of Columbia




Writing Analytically (with 2016 MLA Update Card)


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Writing Analytically treats writing as a tool of thought, offering prompts that lead you through the process of analysis and synthesis and help you to generate original, well-developed ideas. The authors of this brief, popular rhetoric believe that learning to write well requires learning to use your writing as a tool to think well. In the new edition, materials are better integrated, more contextualized, and--when possible--condensed. Each student text is packaged with a free Cengage Essential Reference Card to the MLA HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition.