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Along These Lines: Writing Paragraphs and Essays (Book Alone), 4/E
John Biays, Broward Community College
Carol Wershoven, Palm Beach Community College

ISBN-10: 013194830X
ISBN-13: 9780131948303

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 676 pp
Published: 02/13/2006


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

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 & Collaborative Exercises: 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: Research Process: This new edition includes an appendix on the research process to better prepare students for the research component in composition classes.

 

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

A: Along These Lines: Writing Paragraphs and Essays includes twelve self-contained writing chapters that cover every rhetorical mode (see Table of Contents listing) and an extensive chapter on different essay patterns. Students will easily see how paragraphs can be extended into essays. All of the stages of writing--Prewriting, Planning, Drafting and Revising, and Polishing and Proofreading--are included in each comprehensive and engaging chapter.

 

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.

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

A: NEW — This new edition includes an appendix on the research process to better prepare students for the research component in composition classes.

 

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: WRITING IN STEPS: THE PROCESS APPROACH.

 1.  Writing a Paragraph.
 2.  Illustration.
 3.  Description.
 4.  Narration.
 5.  Process.
 6.  Comparison and Contrast.
 7.  Classification.
 8.  Definition.
 9.  Cause and Effect.
10.  Argument.
11.  Writing an Essay.
12.  Different Essay Patterns.
13.  Writing from Reading.

PART II: THE BOTTOM LINE: GRAMMAR FOR WRITERS.

14. The Simple Sentence.
15. Beyond the Simple Sentence: Coordination.
16. Avoiding Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices.
17. Beyond the Simple Sentence: Subordination.
18. Avoiding Sentence Fragments.
19. Using Parallelism in Sentences.
20. Using Adjectives and Adverbs.
21. Correcting Problems with Modifiers.
22. Using Verbs Correctly.
23. More on Verbs: Consistency and Voice
24. Making Subjects and Verbs Agree.
25. Using Pronouns Correctly: Agreement and Reference.
26. Using Pronouns Correctly: Consistency and Case.
27. Punctuation: The Period and the Question Mark.
28. Punctuation: The Comma.
29. Punctuation: The Semicolon and the Colon.
30. Punctuation: The Apostrophe.
31. Other Punctuation and Mechanics.
32. Spelling.
33. Words That Sound Alike/Look Alike.
34. Word Choice.
35. Sentence Variety.

Appendices.

Appendix A: Grammar for ESL Students.
Appendix B: The Research Process.
Appendix C: Reading Selections to Accompany the Writing Chapters.

 

    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

  • 0205723152Along These Lines: Writing Paragraphs and Essays (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card), 4/E
    Biays & Wershoven
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper Bound with PIN; 676 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205723152 | ISBN-13: 9780205723157
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How do you prepare your students for their future writing courses?

 

Along These Lines will help you prepare your students by providing the best writing process coverage found in a 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

 

Look inside for even more details on how the Along These Lines writing series better prepares students for their future writing courses!

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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! 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 (Book Alone), 4/E
    Biays & Wershoven
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 836 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131948350 | ISBN-13: 9780131948358
    Brief Description

    • 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

  • 013194830XAlong These Lines: Writing Paragraphs and Essays (Book Alone), 4/E
    Biays & Wershoven
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 676 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 013194830X | ISBN-13: 9780131948303
    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! 

  • 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

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