Mosaics: Focusing On Essays (Book Alone), 4/E
Kim Flachmann, California State University, Bakersfield

ISBN-10: 0132395053
ISBN-13: 9780132395052

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 864 pp
Published: 03/08/2007


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.

 

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This text  highlights the composition of essays. By demonstrating the interrelationship among thinking, reading, and writing, the Mosaic series helps students prepare for success in college throughout the curriculum.

 

 

How Mosaics:  Focusing on Essays works

 Unique organization- broken down into 4 parts:

  • Part I: Reading and Writing: An Overview:  Demonstrates the cyclical nature of the reading and writing processes. Begins with the logistics of getting ready to read and write and then moves systematically through the interlocking stages of the processes by following a student from rereading to rereading and then prewriting to revising and editing. 
  • Part II: Reading and Writing Effective Essays- Teaches students how to read and write essays by introducing the rhetorical modes of patterns of development. It moves from personal writing to more academic types of writing: describing, narrating, illustrating, and analyzing a process, comparing and contrasting, dividing and classifying, defining, analyzing causes and effects, arguing. 
  • Part III: The Research Paper-Helps students move from writing effective essays to writing a research paper by systematically illustrating the details of writing a paper with sources.
  • Part IV: The Handbook-Complete grammar/ usage handbook, including exercises, that covers eight units: Sentences, Verbs, Pronouns, Modifiers, Punctuation, Mechanics, Effective Sentences, and Choosing the Right Word.

Hallmark features of Mosaics:  Focusing on Essays includes:

  • Moves students systematically from personal to academic writing.
  • Teaches rhetorical modes as patterns of thought.
  • Uses both student and professional writing as models.
  • Demonstrates all aspects of the writing process throughout student writing.
  • Features culturally diverse reading selections that are of high interest to students.
  • Includes a complete handbook with exercises.

 

New to Mosaics:  Focusing on Essays:

  • Part I Thoroughly Revised. Part I: The Reading and Writing Process revised include coverage of the reading process and critical reading.
  • Two Reading Chapters Added. Chapters 2, The Reading Process and Chapter 3, Reading Critically added to highlight importance of reading for good writing.
  • Professional Essays Integrated into Part II. Nineteen professional essays (formerly isolated Part IV) completely integrated into Part II: Reading and Writing Effective Essays, so students can access the essays where they need them.  
  • Reading Critically Boxes added. A Reading Critically box is added before each rhetoprical strategy to help students get the most from their reading.
  • Unit Tests added. Each 3-4 chapter unit in Part IV: The Handbook has its own Unit Pretest. These Pretests are at the end of the book. 

 

Technology:

 

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  • Diagnostic Testing: MyWritingLab's diagnostic test comprehensively assesses student skills in grammar. Students are given an individualized learning path 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 learning that takes place when students complete the Recall, Apply and Write exercises within each module.  Recall exercises test students on the basics of good writing skills. Apply exercises test students’ ability to improve others’writing. Write exercises challenge students to create their own well-written responses to open-ended questions.

 

 

 

 

-- Part I Thoroughly Revised. Part I: The Reading and Writing Process revised include coverage of the reading process and critical reading.

-- Two Reading Chapters Added. Chapters 2, The Reading Process and Chapter 3, Reading Critically added to highlight importance of reading for good writing.

-- Professional Essays Integrated into Part II. Nineteen professional essays (formerly isolated Part IV) completely integrated into Part II: Reading and Writing Effective Essays, so students can access the essays where they need them.  

-- Reading Critically Boxes added. A Reading Critically box is added before each rhetoprical strategy to help students get the most from their reading.

-- Unit Tests added. Each 3-4 chapter unit in Part IV: The Handbook has its own Unit Pretest. These Pretests are at the end of the book. 

Part I  Reading and Writing: An Overview

Chapter 1  Reading and Writing in College  

Chapter 2  The Reading Process

Chapter 3  Reading Critically

Chapter 4  The Writing Process

Chapter 5  Preparing to Write 

Chapter 6  Writing Effectively

Chapter 7  Revising and Editing

 

Part II   Reading and Writing Effective Essays  

Chapter 8  Describing  

Chapter 9  Narrating  

Chapter 10  Illustrating  

Chapter 11  Analyzing a Process  

Chapter 12  Comparing and Contrasting  

Chapter 13  Dividing and Classifying  

Chapter 14  Defining  

Chapter 15  Analyzing Causes and Effects  

Chapter 16  Arguing  

 

Part III  The Research Paper

Chapter 17  Recognizing a Research Paper

Chapter 18  Avoiding Plagiarism  

Chapter 19  Finding Sources  

Chapter 20  Writing a Research Paper

Chapter 21  Documenting Sources

Chapter 22  Revising and Editing a Research Paper

Chapter 23  Writing Workshop  

 

Part IV  The Handbook  

CHAPTER 24   Introduction  

Unit 1  Sentences

Chapter 25  Subjects and Verbs  

Chapter 26  Fragments  

Chapter 27  Fused Sentences and Comma Splices  

Unit 2  Verbs

Chapter 28  Regular and Irregular Verbs  

Chapter 29  Verb Tense  

Chapter 30  Subject-Verb Agreement  

Chapter 31  More on Verbs  

Unit 3  Pronouns

Chapter 32  Pronoun Problems  

Chapter 33  Pronoun Reference and Point of View  

Chapter 34  Pronoun Agreement  

Unit 4  Modifiers

Chapter 35  Adjectives  

Chapter 36  Adverbs  

Chapter 37  Modifier Errors  

Unit 5  Punctuation

Chapter 38  End Punctuation  

Chapter 39  Commas  

Chapter 40  Apostrophes  

Chapter 41  Quotation Marks  

Chapter 42  Other Punctuation Marks  

Unit 6  Mechanics

Chapter 43  Capitalization  

Chapter 44  Abbreviations and Numbers  

Unit 7  Effective Sentences

Chapter 45  Varying Sentence Structure  

Chapter 46  Parallelism  

Chapter 47  Combining Sentences  

Unit 8  Choosing the Right Words

Chapter 48  Standard and Nonstandard English  

Chapter 49  Easily Confused Words  

Chapter 50  Spelling  

 

UNIT TESTS

APPENDICES

CREDITS

INDEX

    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.

     

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In her own words, this is how Kim Flachmann describes her academic life story and devotion to students and teaching:

 

“I am a St. Louis kid who moved west and fell in love with California. My passion is teaching writing and helping people understand its importance in our society today.

 

I earned my B.A. in English at Washington University in my hometown and then started teaching at Morton College in Chicago, where I began a Developmental Writing program in 1969. Three years later, I came to California State University, Bakersfield, where I currently direct the Writing Program. I enjoy teaching writing through my books and my classes.

 

I can’t imagine any mission more important to the success of a society than literacy. Teaching people who to understand words they encounter and how to express their most cherished ideas can relieve their personal frustration, rejuvenate their self-esteem, provide them with skills they need to succeed, and ultimately raise the quality of all our lives. I feel truly privileged to be involved in such a life-changing passion.”

How do developing writers become stronger writers?

 

Students become stronger writers by writing more.

In Mosaics, students write early and often, and apply chapter concepts to their own work. Students studying their own writing remains the hallmark feature of the Mosaics series.

 

How do developing writers become stronger writers?

 

Students become stronger writers as they become stronger readers.

The new fourth edition of Mosaics: Focusing on Essays introduces reading strategies to help students improve their reading as they hone their writing skills.

 

How do developing writers become stronger writers?

 

Students become stronger writers with better practice.

The Mosaics series is available with MyWritingLab, an online program, which provides individualized practice in key writing and grammar concepts.

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