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Writing Talk: Paragraphs and Short Essays with Readings (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card), 5/E
Anthony C Winkler
Jo Ray McCuen-Matherell

ISBN-10: 0205628443
ISBN-13: 9780205628445

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2009
Format: Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 624 pp
Published: 03/07/2008

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There are many different ways in which developing writers learn. Winkler and McCuen-Matherall have created a writing series that takes into account many of the known difficulties that developing writing students have with English language skills and strategies. Writing Talk: Paragraphs and Short Essays with Readings, 5/e reaches more students by providing the most varied practice exercises of any writing text. Every unit contains Practice Exercises, Unit Tests, Unit Talk-Write Exercises, Unit Collaborative Assignments, Unit Writing Assignments, and Photo Writing Assignments. These diverse exercises will help students of all types—visual, auditory, and collaborative learners—learn and retain the material.

The new edition of Writing Talk retains the same chapter ending exercises found in the previous edition:

A Unit Test that tests mastery of the chapter.
A Unit Talk-Write Assignment that reinforces the difference between spoken and written language
A Collaborative Writing Assignment that gives students an opportunity to interact in group sessions and puts their ears to use in practicing the contents of the chapter
A Unit Writing Assignment that gives students a chance to apply the writing principles they have just learned
A Photo Writing Assignment that asks students to write on a topic suggested by a photograph

NEW- Reorganization of topics. Opens, as before, with the section entitled "Preparing to Write". Then, instead of moving immediately to writing paragraphs, a section on how to write sentences is covered. This section is proceeded with how to writing paragraphs, followed by the rhetorical types, and ending in a discussion of the principles behind writing a good essay.

Reorganized writing assignments with updated visual images to include topics that incorporate the students find relevant.

Updated Talk–Write end-of-chapter assignments to ensure slang and other idiomatic expressions accurately reflect current student usage.

NEW- Readings that reflect the current global situation and its variety of cultures (e.g. readings from China, Iraq, India, Latin America and the West Indies.)

NEW- One-page listing of the parts of speech.

NEW-Section on direct and indirect objects.

NEW- Material on indefinite pronouns such as "any, none, some" and "most," explaining how usage determine whether they are treated as singular or plural.

* Every Unit ends with Unit Test, Unit Talk-Write Assignment, Unit Collaborative Assignment, Unit Writing Assignment, & Photo Writing Assignment for this reason it is only listed once in Unit 1

UNIT 1: The ESL Student and the Native Speaker

Differences Between a Native and an ESL Student

A General Note to Both the Native Speaker and ESL Student

Unit Test
Unit Talk-Write Assignment
Unit Collaborative Assignment
Unit Writing Assignment
Photo Writing Assignment

UNIT 2: Myths About Writing

Myths About Writing

Standard English

UNIT 3: Purpose and Audience

Purpose

Audience

Computer Writing Assignment

UNIT 4: Gathering Ideas

Talking Writing

Freewriting

Brainstorming

Clustering

Journal Writing

PART 2: SENTENCE BASICS

Unit 5 The Sentence

Subject and Verb

Prepositional Phrases

Action Verbs and Linking Verbs

Helping Verbs

Verbals

Compound Subjects and Verbs

Unit 6: Building Sentences

Dependent and Independent Clauses

Three Basic Sentence Types

The Statement, the Question, the Command, the Exclamation

Sentence Variety

Unit 7: The 20 Most Common Sentence Errors

Error No. 1 Sentence Fragments

Error No. 2 Run-On Sentences

Error No. 3 Lack of Subject-Verb Agreement

Error No. 4 Incorrect Verb Forms

Error No. 5 Incorrect Forms of Do, Be, and Have

Error No. 6 Passive Voice

Error No. 7 Shift in Tense

Error No. 8 Shift in Point of View

Error No. 9 Unclear or Missing Referent

Error No. 10 Lack of Pronoun Agreement and Sexism

Error No. 11 Trouble with Using Adverbs and Adjectives in Comparisons and Superlatives

Error No. 12 Dangling or Misplaced Modifiers

Error No. 13 Omitted Commas, Part I

Error No. 14 Omitted Commas, Part II

Error No. 15 Apostrophe Problems

Error No. 16 Trouble with Quotation Marks

Error No. 17 Incorrect Capitalization, Part I

Error No. 18 Incorrect Capitalization, Part II

Error No. 19 Misspelled Words, Part I

Error No. 20 Misspelled Words, Part II

PART 3: WRITING GOOD PARAGRAPHS

Unit 8: The Paragraph and the Topic Sentence

Talking and the Paragraph

The Topic Sentence

Unit 9: Adding Details

Supporting Details

Unit 10: Sticking to the Point, Proving the Point, and Linking Sentences

Stick to the Point

Prove the Point, Don’t Merely Repeat It

Link the Sentences

PART 4: PARAGRAPH STRATEGIES

Unit 11: Narrating

What Am I Trying to Do?

How Can I Do It?