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Along These Lines: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs (Book Alone), 3/E
John Biays, Broward Community College
Carol Wershoven, Palm Beach Community College

ISBN-10: 0131875221
ISBN-13: 9780131875227

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 540 pp
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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! 

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

 

Q: How do you best prepare your students for their future writing courses?

 

A: Writing Process: Biays and Wershoven have integrated the steps of the writing process throughout EVERY writing chapter. Using samples of student work, each writing chapter is self-contained and takes students through the process of generating ideas, planning, drafting, and proofreading.

 

A: Peer Review & Collaboration: Many of the new exercises in Along These Lines are not merely fill-in-the-blank or multiple-choice questions. Peer review and collaborative exercises are included throughout the text to provide students with the opportunity to write for an audience and to learn the connections between purpose, process, and product. These activities also build interpersonal skills and promote critical thinking skills.

 

A: An Engaging Textbook: Biays and Wershoven have a natural conversational tone and provide numerous student samples and a menu of instruction and activities to accommodate a diversity of teaching strategies and student populations.

 

Q: Are you looking for a text that covers basic patterns of writing in separate chapters?

 

A: Along These Lines offers much more on the writing process than any other basic writing text. It includes four chapters on the stages of writing: Prewriting, Planning, Drafting and Revising, and Polishing and Proofreading. The writing steps are then reinforced in four self-contained chapters on writing narrative, description, illustration, and process paragraphs. Every chapter of writing instruction takes students through all the stages of a sample student paragraph.

 

Q: Are you searching for support and flexibility from a writing textbook program?

 

A: Along These Lines offers both built-in support and a flexible structure. The collaborative and peer review activities provide students with a ready-made lesson plan for their class. Chapter tests at the end of each grammar chapter provide instructors with a tool for quick quizzes or an in-class review activity. Meanwhile, the self-contained writing chapters allow instructors the opportunity to cover the material in any sequence they wish.

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

 

Q: What new additions to Along These Lines: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs help reinforce basic writing skills?

 

A: NEW — All the exercises in the grammar chapters are new to this edition. Each grammar chapter now ends with a Chapter Test which gives instructors a new tool for quick quizzes or review. New marginal notes suggest online resources for additional grammar practice, grammar tips, and grammar games.

 

A: NEW —  More computer-related writing topics in the writing chapters, new photographs to spark writing topics, new marginal annotations that suggest ways to take advantage of writing on a computer, and earlier, more comprehensive coverage of using transitions.

 

A: NEW — New readings and a new reading section that puts all the readings into one place for easy access.

 

A: NEW — The new edition has a fresh new color scheme and open design to engage, but not overwhelm students.

 

PART I: SENTENCE-LEVEL SKILLS.

 1. The Simple Sentence.

 2. Beyond the Simple Sentence: Coordination.

 3. Avoiding Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices.

 4. Beyond the Simple Sentence: Subordination.

 5. Combining Sentences: A Review of Your Options.

 6. Avoiding Sentence Fragments.

 7. Using Parallelism in Sentences.

 8. Using Adjectives and Adverbs.

 9. Correcting Problems with Modifiers.

10. Verbs: The Four Main Forms.

11. More on Verb Tenses.

12. Verbs: Consistency and Voice.

13. Making Subjects and Verbs Agree.

14. Using Pronouns Correctly: Agreement and Reference.

15. Using Pronouns Correctly: Consistency and Case.

16. Punctuation.

17. Spelling.

18. Words That Sound Alike/Look Alike.

19. Using Prepositions Correctly.

PART II: WRITING IN STEPS: THE PROCESS APPROACH.

20. Writing a Paragraph: Prewriting – Generating Ideas.

21. Writing a Paragraph: Planning  – Devising a Plan.

22. Writing a Paragraph: Drafting – Writing and Revising the Drafts.

23. Writing a Paragraph: Polishing -- Polishing and Proofreading.

24. Writing a Narrative Paragraph.

25. Writing a Descriptive Paragraph.

26. Writing an Illustration Paragraph.

27. Writing a Process Paragraph.

28. Moving from Paragraphs to Essays.

29. Writing from Reading.

Appendix A: Reading Selections to Accompany the Writing Chapters.

Appendix B: Grammar Practice for ESL Students.

 

    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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    Along These Lines better prepares students for their future writing courses! Now, available in a special Florida Edition designed to help students pass the state's Basic Skills Exit Test!

     

    Introducing Prentice Hall’s first ever Florida Edition of ALONG THESE LINES: WRITING PARAGRAPHS AND ESSAYS. The Florida Edition mirrors the content of the traditional ALONG THESE LINES text, but also includes a 47-page Florida Exit Test Study Guide and marginal icons throughout noting if a particular writing or grammar topic is covered on the Florida Exit Test.

     

    Adapted from THE PRENTICE HALL FLORIDA EXIT TEST STUDY GUIDE FOR WRITING, the 47-page guide includes:

     

    -- Testing and Study Tips for the Florida Exit Test

    -- Two sample tests — one to serve as a pretest and one to serve as a posttest.

    -- Sample writing Paragraph Writing Test

    -- Explanatory Answer Keys for the sample tests

     

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

     

  • 0131948350Along These Lines: Florida Edition, 4/E
    Biays & Wershoven
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 836 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131948350 | ISBN-13: 9780131948358
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    • For basic writing courses covering paragraphs and essays. 

     

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

     

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

     

    -          Integrating the writing process throughout EVERY writing chapter

    -          Including peer review and collaborative exercises

    -          Adding a new appendix on the research process

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    Biays & Wershoven
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    ISBN-10: 0135147484 | ISBN-13: 9780135147481
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    • 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! 

  • 0131875221Along These Lines: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs (Book Alone), 3/E
    Biays & Wershoven
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 540 pages | 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! 

  • 0135147476Along These Lines: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card), 3/E
    Biays & Wershoven
    © 2008 | Prentice Hall | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 540 pages | Estimated Availability: 08/27/2008
    ISBN-10: 0135147476 | ISBN-13: 9780135147474
    Brief Description

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