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Mosaics: Focusing on Sentences in Context, 3/E
Kim FlachmannCalifornia State University, Bakersfield

ISBN-10: 0131893580
ISBN-13:  9780131893580

Publisher:  Longman
Copyright:  2005
Format:  Paper; 736 pp
Published:  08/16/2004


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For courses in Developmental English, Basic Skills, or Remedial Writing.

Students study their own writing! Part of a three-level developmental series that integrates critical thinking, reading, writing, revising, and editing, this text teaches the processes and skills common to all good academic writing.



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Would you like a sentence textbook to cover the writing process?

  • Writing Process Coverage--

o        Constantly reinforces the most important element of writing–the process.

o        In addition to the six chapters in Part I, emphasizes the important techniques of the writing process in Part II with revising and editing activities and in Part III with Revising Checklists and Editing Checklists.

Are you looking for a textbook with strong grammar coverage?

  • Three levels of grammar exercises.

o        Provide practice for every grammar/usage concept in Part II, Writing Effective Sentences.

o        Allows students to identify and correct grammar mistakes, as well as write their own mistake-free sentences.

  • A minimum of terminology in the handbook section.

o        Keeps the emphasis on using grammar rather than labeling it.

o        Provides an introduction with terms and explanations for reference in the Introduction of Part II.

  • Over 100 exercise sets in the handbook section.

o        Gives students ample opportunity to practice the grammar/usage rules, including recognizing sentence errors in context.

o        Includes full paragraphs to edit.

Would you like your textbook to help motivate students to the next level of writing?

  • Focus on paragraphs.

o        Helps students study sentences in their natural context.

o        Brings student learning to the next level by addressing what they will see in their reading and use in their writing.

  • Unit reviews.

o        Provides unit reviews and tests for each of the eight units in Part II.

o        Offers students the opportunity to test their knowledge over several chapters as they progress through a section.

 


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Table of Contents

(NOTE: All chapters begin with Introduction and conclude with Chapter Review, Editing a Student Paragraph, and Editing Your Own Paragraph, except for chapters 1 through 7, and 33 through 47.)

I. THE WRITING PROCESS.

1. Writing Successful Sentences.

Your Approach to Writing. Writing Assignments.

2.Understanding the Writing Process.

Picture the Process.

3. Prewriting.

Thinking. Planning.

4. Writing.

Writing the Topic Sentence. Developing. Organizing. Drafting.

5. Revising.

Revising Checklist.

6. Editing.

Editing Checklist. Your EQ (Editing Quotient). How to Edit.

II. WRITING EFFECTIVE SENTENCES.

Introduction: Parts of Speech, Phrases, and Clauses.

Parts of Speech. Phrases. Clauses.

Unit 1. Sentences.

7. Subjects and Verbs.

Subjects. Verbs.

8. Fragments.

About Fragments. Identifying and Correcting Fragments.

9. Fused Sentences and Comma Splices.

Identifying Fused Sentences and Comma Splices. Correcting Fused Sentences and Comma Splices.

Unit 1. Tests.

Unit Writing Assignments.

Unit 2. Verbs.

10. Regular and Irregular Verbs.

Regular Verbs. Irregular Verbs. Using Lie/Lay and Sit/Set Correctly.

11. Verb Tense.

Present Tense. Past Tense. Using Helping Words with Past Participles. Using -ing Verbs Correctly. Problems with be. Problems with do. Problems with have.

12. Subject-Verb Agreement.

Subject-Verb Agreement. Words Separating. Subjects and Verbs. More than One Subject. Verbs Before Subjects. Collective Nouns. Indefinite Pronouns.

13. More on Verbs.

Consistent Verb Tense. Using the Active Voice

Unit 2. Tests.

Unit Writing Assignments.

Unit 3. Pronouns.

14. Pronoun Problems.

Pronouns as Subjects. Pronouns as Objects. Possessive Pronouns. Pronouns in Comparisons. Demonstrative Pronouns.

15. Pronoun Reference and Point of View.

Pronoun Reference. Shifting Point of View.

16. Pronoun Agreement.

Indefinite Pronouns. Avoiding Sexism.

Unit 3. Tests.

Unit Writing Assignments.

Unit 4. Modifiers.

17. Adjectives.

Using Adjectives. Comparing with Adjectives. Common Adjective Errors. Using Good and Bad Correctly.

18. Adverbs.

Using Adverbs. Comparing with Adverbs. Adjective or Adverb?. Double Negatives. Using Good/Well and Bad/Badly Correctly.

19. Modifier Errors.

Misplaced Modifiers. Dangling Modifiers.

Unit 4. Tests.

Unit Writing Assignments.

Unit 5. Punctuation.

20. End Punctuation.

Period. Question Mark. Exclamation Point.

21. Commas.

Commas with Items in a Series. Commas with Introductory Words. Commas with Independent Clauses. Commas with Interrupters. Commas with Direct Quotations. Other Uses of Commas.

22. Apostrophes.

Marking Contractions. Showing Possession. Common Apostrophe Errors.

23. Quotation Marks.

Direct Quotations. Indirect Quotations. Capitalizing and Using Other Punctuation Marks with Quotation Marks. Quotation Marks Around Titles.

24. Other Punctuation Marks.

Semicolons. Colons. Dashes and Parentheses.

Unit 5. Tests.

Unit Writing Assignments.

Unit 6. Mechanics.

25. Capitalization.

26. Abbreviations and Numbers.

Abbreviations. Numbers.

Unit 6. Tests.

Unit Writing Assignments.

Unit 7. Effective Sentences.

27. Varying Sentence Structure.

28. Parallelism.

29. Combining Sentences.

Simple Sentences. Compound Sentences. Complex Sentences. Compound-Complex Sentences.

Unit 7. Tests.

Unit Writing Assignments.

Unit 8. Choosing the Right Word.

30. Standard and Nonstandard English.

Standard and Nonstandard English. Nonstandard English. Slang.

31. Easily Confused Words.

Easily Confused Words, Part I. Easily Confused Words, Part II. Easily Confused Words, Part III.

32. Spelling.

Spelling Hints. Spelling Rules. Commonly Misspelled Words.

Unit 8. Tests.

Unit Writing Assignments.

III. PARAGRAPHS: SENTENCES IN CONTEXT.

33. Recognizing a Paragraph.

34. How to Read a Paragraph.

35. How to Write a Successful Paragraph.

36. Revising and Editing a Student Paragraph.

37. Revising and Editing Your Own Paragraph.

38. Writing Workshop.

IV. FROM READING TO WRITING.

39. Describing.

Colette Russell, "A Day in the Homeless Life." Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood."

40. Narrating.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., "A Giant Step." Elizabeth Wong, "The Struggle to be an All-American Girl."

41. Illustrating.

Sherry Hemman Hogan, "A Question of Trust." Bailey White, "Mortality."

42. Analyzing a Process

Tomás Robles, "Ferrying Dreamers to the Other Side." Peter Jaret, "Stress Free in 10 Minutes: 7 Ways to Chill Out and Recharge."

43. Comparing and Contrasting.

Lisen Stromberg, "My Son the Cross-Dresser." Dave Barry, "The Ugly Truth about Beauty."

44. Dividing and Classifying.

Annie Murphy Paul, "Dads." John Roger and Peter McWilliams, "Why Do We Resist Learning?"

45. Defining.

Monica Ramirez Basco, "The Perfect Trap." Roberto Santiago, "Black and Latino."

46. Analyzing Causes and Effects.

Bryan Johnson, "How the Navy Changed My Life." Lewis Sawaquat, "For My Indian Daughter."

47. Arguing.

Roger Sipher, "So That Nobody Has to Go to School If They Don't Want To." John Romano, "It's a Job for Parents, Not the Government."

Appendixes.

Credits.

Index.


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