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Along These Lines: Florida Edition, 4/E
John Biays, Broward Community College
Carol Wershoven, Palm Beach Community College

ISBN-10: 0131948350
ISBN-13: 9780131948358

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 836 pp
Published: 02/13/2006

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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! 

 

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

 

Q: How do you best prepare your students for the Florida State Basic Skills Exit Test?

A: The Florida Edition mirrors the content of the traditional ALONG THESE LINES text, but also includes a 96-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.

 

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: 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 STAGES: 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

 

READINGS TO ACCOMPANY THE WRITING CHAPTERS

 

APPENDIX A: GRAMMAR PRACTICE FOR ESL STUDENTS

APPENDIX B: THE RESEARCH PROCESS

 

FLORIDA EXIT TEST FOR WRITING STUDY GUIDE

ALONG THESE LINES

Writing Paragraphs and Essays

Fourth Edition

John Sheridan Biays - Carol Wershoven

Florida Exit Test Edition

 

With Along These Lines, you will master the writing process and be better prepared to write in college and beyond!

 

What is the "writing process"? It is a series of steps to produce effective writing. Along These Lines guides you through the following stages as you develop your writing skills:

 

Prewriting: Thinking about your topic and gathering ideas

Planning: Examining your ideas and focusing them around one main idea

Drafting: Putting your ideas on paper and revising rough versions of your work

Polishing: Reviewing, proofreading, and creating the final version of your work

 

Along These Lines: Your key resource for confident writing in this course and in your college career.

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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
    Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

    • 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

  • 0135147484Along These Lines: Writing Paragraphs and Essays (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card), 4/E
    Biays & Wershoven
    © 2008 | Prentice Hall | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 676 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0135147484 | ISBN-13: 9780135147481
    Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

    • 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! 

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    Biays & Wershoven
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