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Wordsmith: A Guide to Paragraphs and Essays, 3E is appropriate for basic writing courses covering paragraphs and essays. This text ships automatically with MyWritingLab.

What do your students want in a textbook?

Your life’s work is centered on connecting to your students and preparing them for productive futures. Pamela Arlov created the Wordsmith series to help you connect with your students. We asked professors what they thought their students would want in a textbook. Here’s what we heard and how Wordsmith addresses today’s students:

1)       Students find textbooks dry and tedious. Arlov includes engaging grammar openers, plenty of visuals, and has a writing style that is second to none!

2)       Students find textbooks irrelevant to their lives. Arlov’s combination of the rhetorical modes is realistic and models real life writing. She has also added “Real Writing” examples in the modes chapters to make Wordsmith even more relevant to students’ lives.

3)       Students become frustrated if the entire text is not used in class. Wordsmith is 100 pages briefer than similar texts on the market and an affordable option. This concise approach also does not overwhelm students with too much information. Wordsmith provides students with just the right balance of instruction and practice!

The Wordsmith series is your value-packed option that students will appreciate while mastering key writing and grammar skills.

Q: What do your students want in a textbook?

A:  Students find textbooks dry and tedious.

NEW! Arlov has added 28 chapter opening visuals designed to engage students, specifically visual learners, into the text material.

A:  Students find textbooks irrelevant to their lives.

NEW! To help students realize that writing extends beyond the classroom environment, Real World Topic assignments have been added to highlight the ways writing is used in career applications.  

Building Connections boxes and Mixed Methods Assignments show students how in the real world these essay patterns are used in conjunction with one another, and not in isolation.

A: Students become frustrated if the entire text is not used in class.

Wordsmith is 100 pages briefer than similar texts on the market. This concise approach does not overwhelm students with too much information. Wordsmith provides students with just the right balance of instruction and practice!

A: Students become frustrated with the cost of textbooks if the entire text is not used in class.

Not only is Wordsmith more concise than similar texts on the market, it is also approximately $10.00 less than comparable texts; making Wordsmith a wonderful value option for your course.

Q: What do your students want in a textbook?

A:  Students find textbooks dry and tedious.

NEW! Arlov has added 28 chapter opening visuals designed to engage students, specifically visual learners, into the text material.

A:  Students find textbooks irrelevant to their lives.

NEW! To help students realize that writing extends beyond the classroom environment, Real World Topic assignments have been added to highlight the ways writing is used in career applications.  

PART 1. COMPOSITION.

 1. The Writing Process.

 2. Preparing to Write.

 3. Writing Paragraphs: Topic Sentences.

 4. Writing Paragraphs: Support.

 5. Writing Paragraphs: Unity and Coherence.

 6. Revising, Proofreading, and Formatting.

 7. Showing and Telling: Description, Narration and Example.

 8. Limiting and Ordering: Definition, Classification, and Process.

 9. Examining Logical Connections: Comparison-Contrast, Cause-Effect and Argument.

10. Writing an Essay.

11. Writing Summary Reports.

PART 2. GRAMMAR.

12. Verbs and Subjects.

13. Subject-Verb Agreement.

14. Verb Shift.

15. Sentence Variety.

16. Run-on Sentences. 

17. Sentence Fragments.

18. Pronoun Case.

19. Pronoun Agreement, Reference, and Point of View.

20. Adjectives, Adverbs, and Articles.

21. Capital Letters.

22. Words Commonly Confused.

23. Word Choice.

24. Commas.

25. Other Punctuation.

26. Apostrophes.

27. Quotation Marks.

PART 3. READINGS.

Developmental Writing - Paragraph/Essay  [RHETORIC]   (Developmental English)

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  Wordsmith: A Guide to Paragraphs and Short Essays (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card), 3/E
  Arlov
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper Bound with PIN; 608 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205708757 | ISBN-13: 9780205708758
  Brief Description

  

  Wordsmith: A Guide to Paragraphs and Essays, 3E is appropriate for basic writing courses covering paragraphs and essays. This text ships automatically with MyWritingLab.

   

  What do your students want in a textbook?

   

  Your life’s work is centered on connecting to your students and preparing them for productive futures. Pamela Arlov created the Wordsmith series to help you connect with your students. We asked professors what they thought their students would want in a textbook. Here’s what we heard and how Wordsmith addresses today’s students:

   

  1)       Students find textbooks dry and tedious. Arlov includes engaging grammar openers, plenty of visuals, and has a writing style that is second to none!

   

  2)       Students find textbooks irrelevant to their lives. Arlov’s combination of the rhetorical modes is realistic and models real life writing. She has also added “Real Writing” examples in the modes chapters to make Wordsmith even more relevant to students’ lives.

   

  3)       Students become frustrated if the entire text is not used in class. Wordsmith is 100 pages briefer than similar texts on the market and an affordable option. This concise approach also does not overwhelm students with too much information. Wordsmith provides students with just the right balance of instruction and practice!

   

  The Wordsmith series is your value-packed option that students will appreciate while mastering key writing and grammar skills.

NEW! MyWritingLab is now available!

MyWritingLab for Wordsmith (Access code required), 3/E
Arlov
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Arlov
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Arlov
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MyWritingLab for Wordsmith (Access code required), 3/E
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InterWrite PRS RF (Personal Response System)
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Thinking Through the Test: A Study Guide for the Florida College Basic Skills Exit Tests: Reading and Writing, 2/E
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Thinking Through the Test: A Study Guide for the Florida College Basic Skills Exit Tests: Reading and Writing, w/Answers
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Thinking Through the Test: A Study Guide for the Florida College Basic Skills Tests, Reading & Writing (without Answer Key), 3/E
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Thinking Through the Test: A Study Guide for the Florida College Basic Skills Tests, Reading (with Answer Key), 3/E
Henry & Markus
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iClicker Classroom Response System
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CD-Diagnostic and Editing Tests and Exercises t/a Longman 2004 English Handbooks, 9/E
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Henry & Markus
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Thinking Through the Test A Study Guide for the Florida College Basic Skills Exit Tests: Writing
Henry & Markus
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Thinking Through the Test: A Study Guide for the Florida College Basic Skills Exit Tests: Writing, With Answers
Henry & Markus
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Thinking Through the Test: A Study Guide for the Florida College Basic Skills Tests, Reading & Writing (with Answer Key), 3/E
Henry & Markus
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ISBN-10: 0321387392 | ISBN-13: 9780321387394

Thinking Through the Test: A Study Guide for the Florida College Basic Skills Tests, Writing (with Answer Key), 3/E
Henry & Markus
©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 236 pp | Instock
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Henry & Markus
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MyWritingLab for Wordsmith (Access code required), 3/E
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  Along These Lines: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs (Book Alone), 3/E
  Biays & Wershoven
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 540 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131875221 | ISBN-13: 9780131875227
  Brief Description

  

  For basic writing courses covering sentences and paragraphs. This text ships automatically with MyWritngLab.

   

  Along These Lines better prepares students for their future writing courses! 

   

  How do you prepare your students for their future writing courses? John Biays and Carol Wershoven believe you offer students constant reinforcement of the writing process. With a conversational tone and a blend of engaging activities, each writing chapter takes students through all of the steps of generating ideas, planning, drafting, and proofreading. Even the grammar chapters include sentence-generating and editing exercises as well as excerpts from powerful writers. 

  The third edition continues this step-by-step instruction by:

  • Including extensive but practical grammar instruction with three kinds of exercises: Practice, individual exercises; Collaborate, exercises to be completed with a partner or group; and Connect, editing exercises that apply grammar concepts to the writing of paragraphs.
  • Integrating the writing process throughout EVERY writing chapter
  • Offering comprehensive writing chapters: four initial chapters on the stages of writing and four self-contained chapters on the basic writing patterns: narrative, description, illustration, and process.

  Along These Lines will help prepare your students by providing the best writing process coverage found in any basic writing series! 

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  Mosaics: Focusing On Essays (Book Alone), 4/E
  Flachmann
  ©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 864 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132395053 | ISBN-13: 9780132395052
  Brief Description

  

  For Developmental English, Basic Skills or Remedial Writing courses, or low-level Freshman Composition.

   

  Mosaics: Focusing on Essays illustrates how the companion skills of reading and writing are parts of a larger, interrelated process that moves back and forth through the tasks of prereading and reading, prewriting and writing, and revising and editing.

   

  Experience tells us that students have the best chance of succeeding in college if they learn how to respond productively to the varying academic demands made on them throughout the curriculum. One extremely important part of this process is being able to analyze ideas and think critically about issues in many different subject areas. Mosaics: Focusing on Essays illustrates how the companion skills of reading and writing are parts of a larger, interrelated process that moves back and forth through the tasks of prereading and reading, prewriting and writing, and revising and editing. This book encourages students to discover how the “mosaics” of their own reading and writing processes work together to form a coherent whole. By demonstrating the interrelationship among thinking, reading, and writing on progressively more difficulty levels, Mosaics promises to help prepare students for success in college throughout the curriculum.

   

  This text ships automatically with MyWritngLab.

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  Mosaics: Focusing on Sentences in Context (Book Alone), 3/E
  Flachmann
  ©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 736 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131893580 | ISBN-13: 9780131893580
  Brief Description

  

  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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  MYWRITINGLAB
  Pearson
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | On-line Supplement | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321428692 | ISBN-13: 9780321428691
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  Brief Description

  

  MyWritingLab is a market-leading online learning system, built around the needs of low-literacy students, that provides diagnostic assessment, progress tracking, and progressive exercise sets to help advance students from literal comprehension, to critical application, to demonstrating skills in their own writing.  In short, MyWritingLab saves time and improves results.
  

  
  

  How does MyWritingLab help students become better writers?

  • Diagnostic Testing: MyWritingLab's diagnostic test comprehensively assesses student skills in grammar. Students are given an individualized study plan based on the diagnostic's results, identifying the modules in areas where they most need help.
  • Progressive Learning: The heart of MyWritingLab is the progressive exercise sets within each topic.  Students move from literal comprehension (Recall) to critical comprehension (Apply) to demonstrating concepts to their own writing (Write). This progression of critical thinking, not available in any other online resource, enables students to transfer their skill into their own writing.
  • Comprehensive Progress Tracking: All student work in MyWritingLab is captured in the MyWritingLab Gradebook. Students can monitor their own progress, and instructors can track the progress of their entire class in this flexible and easy-to-use tool.

  MyWritingLab also includes the following resources, which will further help your students become stronger writers!

  • Pearson Tutor Services, (powered by SMARTHINKING): Offering students full time support in their writing efforts, SmarThinking is an online tutoring service that provides students with paper review 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  
  • Research Navigator™: Provides helpful tips on the writing process, online research, and finding and citing valid sources in addition to thousands of academic journals and periodicals, the New York Times Search by Subject Archive, Link Library, Library Guides, and more.
  • Study Skills Web site: Helps students review strategies for college success, and learn time management, stress management, and study skills.

  MyWritingLab is appropriate for courses in developmental writing and introductory composition.

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  Wordsmith: A Guide to Paragraphs and Short Essays (Book Alone), 3/E
  Arlov
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 608 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131949853 | ISBN-13: 9780131949850
  Brief Description

  

  Wordsmith: A Guide to Paragraphs and Essays, 3E is appropriate for basic writing courses covering paragraphs and essays. This text ships automatically with MyWritingLab.

   

  What do your students want in a textbook?

   

  Your life’s work is centered on connecting to your students and preparing them for productive futures. Pamela Arlov created the Wordsmith series to help you connect with your students. We asked professors what they thought their students would want in a textbook. Here’s what we heard and how Wordsmith addresses today’s students:

   

  1)       Students find textbooks dry and tedious. Arlov includes engaging grammar openers, plenty of visuals, and has a writing style that is second to none!

   

  2)       Students find textbooks irrelevant to their lives. Arlov’s combination of the rhetorical modes is realistic and models real life writing. She has also added “Real Writing” examples in the modes chapters to make Wordsmith even more relevant to students’ lives.

   

  3)       Students become frustrated if the entire text is not used in class. Wordsmith is 100 pages briefer than similar texts on the market and an affordable option. This concise approach also does not overwhelm students with too much information. Wordsmith provides students with just the right balance of instruction and practice!

   

  The Wordsmith series is your value-packed option that students will appreciate while mastering key writing and grammar skills.

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  Wordsmith: Guide to College Writing (Book Alone), 3/E
  Arlov
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 624 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131949934 | ISBN-13: 9780131949935
  Brief Description

  

  Wordsmith: A Guide to College Writing is appropriate essay level basic writing or first year composition courses. This text ships automatically with MyWritngLab.

   

   

  What do your students want in a textbook?

   

  Your life’s work is centered on connecting to your students and preparing them for productive futures. Pamela Arlov created the Wordsmith series to help you connect with your students. We asked professors what they thought their students would want in a textbook. Here’s what we heard and how Wordsmith addresses today’s students:

   

  1)       Students find textbooks dry and tedious. Arlov includes engaging grammar openers, plenty of visuals, and has a writing style that is second to none!

   

  2)       Students find textbooks irrelevant to their lives. Arlov’s combination of the rhetorical modes is realistic and models real life writing. She has also added “Real Writing” examples in the modes chapters to make Wordsmith even more relevant to students’ lives.

   

  3)       Students become frustrated if the entire text is not used in class. Wordsmith is 100 pages briefer than similar texts on the market and an affordable option. This concise approach also does not overwhelm students with too much information. Wordsmith provides students with just the right balance of instruction and practice!

   

  The Wordsmith series is your value-packed option that students will appreciate while mastering key writing and grammar skills.

   

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  Writer's World, The: Sentences and Paragraphs (Book Alone), 2/E
  Gaetz & Phadke
  ©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 528 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136151930 | ISBN-13: 9780136151937
  Brief Description

  

  For developmental writing courses covering sentences and paragraphs.

   

  Whether your students enroll in the course with varying skill levels, whether they are native or nonnative speakers of English, or whether they learn better through the use of visuals, The Writer’s World can help students with varying needs come together and excel at becoming stronger, more consistent, and more creative writers. This ground breaking developmental writing series was written and designed from the ground up to address the greatest teaching challenges and the diverse needs of today’s students.

   

  The Writer’s World addresses the diverse needs of your students!

   

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