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Writer's World, The: Sentences and Paragraphs (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card), 2/E
Lynne Gaetz, College Lionel-Groulx, Canada
Suneeti Phadke, St. Jerome College

ISBN-10: 0205657818
ISBN-13: 9780205657810

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2009
Format: Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 528 pp
Estimated Availability: 08/01/2008

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For developmental writing courses covering sentences and paragraphs.

 

Whether your students enroll in the course with varying skill levels, whether they are native or nonnative speakers of English, or whether they learn better through the use of visuals, The Writer’s World can help students with varying needs come together and excel at becoming stronger, more consistent, and more creative writers. This ground breaking developmental writing series was written and designed from the ground up to address the greatest teaching challenges and the diverse needs of today’s students.

 

The Writer’s World addresses the diverse needs of your students!

 

This text ships automatically with MyWritingLab


The Writer's World addresses the diverse needs of your students.

 

The Writer’s World seamlessly integrates key elements and strategies that attend to the variety of needs students bring to the course.

 

Nonnative English Speakers:

The Writer’s World helps instructors meet the needs of the nonnative English speakers in their class better than any other text on the market:

  • The authors; With Lynne Gaetz and Suneeti Phadke’s expertise in teaching nonnative speakers of English, ESL material is a strength of The Writer’s World texts. They believe this material can benefit all students.
  • ESL material is seamlessly integrated into the student text for maximum benefit, often in the form of a ‘Hint’ box. By identifying them as ESL topics only in the Annotated Instructor’s Edition (and not the student version) this important information can benefit  both native and nonnative speakers.
  • ESL Teaching Tips: The Annotated Instructor’s Edition also includes over 75 ESL Teaching Tips. Many of these teaching tips were derived from the author’s first hand experience teaching nonnative speakers in the classroom, while others have been suggested by users of The Writer’s World and 16 experts in the field of English language training.

Visual Learners:

With a contemporary, open design, over 60 images and additional tables, charts, and graphs, The Writer’s World supports visual learners like no other text. The Writer’s World layout grabs students’ attention and draws them into the material:

  • Chapter opening photos: Many chapter-opening photos are linked to concepts to help students retain key information.
  • Visuals to illustrate concepts: The Writer’s World uses numerous visuals throughout the text to illustrate concepts, including tables and charts, the chapter opening photos and “…at Work” boxes.
  • NEW- Visual Writing Prompts: Topics and ideas for essay writing can come from a number of different sources. The Writer’s World encourages students to take inspiration from examining photos and images. These visual prompts, found at the end of each writing chapter and thematic unit, give students varied and engaging options for finding an essay topic. 

Varying Skill Level:

The authors address students' varying skill-levels by including material that is engaging to students in a contemporary concept.

  • Thematic grammar chapters: This unique way of presenting grammar concepts thematically makes students more engaged in studying and learning grammar. The more engaging the material, the more likely students will retain key concepts.
  • MyWritingLab, the best online writing instruction and practice available for students, is automatically included with each copy of The Writer’s World.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

  • Visual Writing Prompts: The second edition has an even stronger visual program with pedagogical value. Throughout Part 2, new photos next to some practices provide a visual companion to the text information. In Part 3, New Photo Writing and Film Writing prompts have been added. These visuals provide students with opportunities to write in response to images using particular paragraph or essay patterns.
  • Thematic Material: The reading selections are now organized by four broad themes: “Human History, Habits, and Relationships,” “Entertainment, Culture, and Beliefs,” “The Earth and Its Creatures,” and “Politics and the Business World.” This thematic arrangement ties the readings more closely to the grammar chapters, which all have theme-based practices to help students build their base of general knowledge.
  • User Community Tips in AIE: Current The Writer's World  users share their tips, experiences and best practices in the margins of the Annotated Instructors Edition.
  • ESL Teaching Tips have been expanded upon and reviewed by ESL experts.
  • Classification added: The 2/e has an even richer selection of paragraph patterns with the addition of the classification pattern in Chapter 4, bringing the number of rhetorical modes covered to nine. A new classification essay, “What’s Your Humor Style?” has also been added to chapter 29.
  • The Editing Handbook: The major revisions in the Editing Handbook were to practices. Each item of every activity was examined  to ensure that it was interesting, current, and not confusing. Many indidividual items were changes, and whole activities replaced in many of the Part 2 chapters.
  • MyWritingLab ships automatically with every copy of The Writer’s World!

MyWritingLab is a market-leading online learning system that provides diagnostic assessment, progress tracking, and progressive exercise sets to help advance students from literal comprehension, to critical application, to demonstrating skills in their own writing How does MyWritingLab help students become better writers?

  • 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 (moving students from literal to critical comprehension) 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.
  • Progress Tracker: All student work in MyWritingLab is captured in the Progress Tracker. Students can monitor their own progress and instructors can track the progress of their entire class in this flexible and easy-to-use tool.
  • Pearson Tutor Services, (powered by SmarThinking). Offering students full time support in their writing efforts, SmarThinking is an online tutoring service that provides students with paper review 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

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The Writer’s World: Sentences & Paragraphs 2/e

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Inside Front Cover

Sentence Checklist

Revising and Editing Symbols

 

Preface

 

PART I. THE WRITING PROCESS

Chapter 1: Exploring

Chapter 2: Developing

Chapter 3: Revising & Editing

Chapter 4: Paragraph Patterns

Chapter 5: Writing the Essay

 

PART II: EDITING HANDBOOK

 

Section 1: Some Parts of Speech

Chapter 6: Nouns, Determiners and Prepositions

Chapter 7: Pronouns

 

Section 2: Problems with Verbs

Chapter 8: Subjects and Verbs

Chapter 9: Present and past Tenses

Chapter 10: Past Participles

Chapter 11: Progressive Tenses

Chapter 12: Other Verb Forms

 

Section 3: Verb Agreement and Consistency

Chapter 13: Subject-Verb Agreement

Chapter 14: Tense Consistency

 

Section 4: Effective Sentences

Chapter 15: Compound Sentences

Chapter 16: Complex Sentences

Chapter 17: Sentence Variety and Exact Language

 

Section 5: Common Sentence Errors

Chapter 18: Fragments

Chapter 19: Run-Ons

Chapter 20: Faulty Parallel Structure

 

Section 6: Modifiers

Chapter 21: Adjectives & Adverbs

Chapter 22: Mistakes with Modifiers

 

Section 7: Word Use and Spelling

Chapter 23: Spelling

Chapter 24: Commonly Confused Words

 

Section 8: Punctuation and Mechanics

Chapter 25: Comma Usage

Chapter 26: The Apostrophe

Chapter 27: Quotation Marks and Capitalization

 

Section 9: Editing

Chapter 28: Editing Practice

 

PART III: READING STRATEGIES AND SELECTIONS

 

Chapter 29: Reading Strategies and Reading Selections

Reading Strategies

Reading Selections

 

HUMAN HISTORY, HABITS AND RELATIONSHIPS

Reading 1: "Fish Cheeks" by Amy Tan                                                              (Description)

Reading 2: “Birth” by Maya Angelou                                                                 (Narration)

Reading 3: "The Cult of Emaciation” by Ben Barry                                          (Cause and Effect)

Reading 4: "For Marriage” by Kirsteen McLeod                                                (Argument)

Reading 5: "Against Marriage” by Winston Murray                                          (Argument)

ENTERTAINMENT, CULTURE, AND BELIEFS

Reading 6: "The Appalling Truth” by Dorothy Nixon                                      (Illustration)

Reading 7: "The New Addiction” by Josh Freed                                             (Comparison and Contrast)

Reading 8: "Sports and Life: Lessons to be Learned” by Jeff Kemp            (Narration)

Reading 9: "The Culture War” by Linda Chavez                                               (Cause and Effect)

Reading 10: "What’s Your Humor Style?” by Louise Dobson                        (Classification)

Reading 11: "The Hijab” by Naheed Mustafa                                                     (Cause and Effect)

THE EARTH AND ITS CREATURES

Reading 12: "What It Feels Like to Walk on the Moon” by Buzz Aldrin         (Description)

Reading 13: "The Zoo Life” by Yann Martel                                                      (Comparison and Contrast)

Reading 14: "Shark Bait” by Dave Barry                                                            (Narration)

POLITICS AND THE BUSINESS WORLD

Reading 15: "How to Handle Conflict” by P. Gregory Smith                          (Process)

Reading 16: "How to Remember Names” by Roger Seip                                (Process)

Reading 17: “Meet the Zippies” by Thomas L. Friedman                                                (Definition)

Reading 18: "The Rewards of Dirty Work," by Linda L. Lindsey and Stephen Beach (Illustration)

 

Appendices

Appendix 1: Grammar Glossary

Appendix 2: Verb Tenses

Appendix 3: Combining Ideas in Sentences

Appendix 4: Punctuation and Mechanics

Appendix 5: Spelling, Grammar, and Vocabulary Logs

 

Credits

Index

Inside Back Cover

Paragraph and Essay Checklists

 

 

    For developmental writing courses covering sentences and paragraphs.

     

    Whether your students enroll in the course with varying skill levels, whether they are native or nonnative speakers of English, or whether they learn better through the use of visuals, The Writer’s World can help students with varying needs come together and excel at becoming stronger, more consistent, and more creative writers. This ground breaking developmental writing series was written and designed from the ground up to address the greatest teaching challenges and the diverse needs of today’s students.

     

    The Writer’s World addresses the diverse needs of your students!

     

    This text ships automatically with MyWritingLab

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    Gaetz & Phadke
    © 2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 528 pages | Estimated Availability: 07/25/2008
    ISBN-10: 0136151930 | ISBN-13: 9780136151937
    Brief Description

    • The Writer’s World addresses the diverse needs of your students by meeting the needs of nonnative English speakers, visual learners and students with varying skill levels!

    What are the diverse needs of your students? Do you have students with varying skill levels? Do you have nonnative English speakers in your courses? How many of your students are visual learners? Lynne Gaetz and Suneeti Phadke put their classroom teaching experience to use by writing The Writer’s World for you and your students. This ground breaking developmental writing series was written and designed from the ground up to address the greatest teaching challenges and the diverse needs of today’s students.

     

    Nonnative English Speakers:

    The Writer’s World helps instructors meet the needs of the nonnative English speakers in their class better than any other text on the market. Gaetz and Phadke have extensive experience teaching ESL courses. They believe “ESL material” can benefit all students. Therefore, there are no references to ESL or nonnative English speakers in the student text. The material is seamlessly integrated into the student text for maximum benefit. The Annotated Instructor’s Edition also includes over 75 ESL Teaching Tips. 

     

    Visual Learners:

    With a contemporary, open design, over 60 images and additional tables, charts, and graphs, The Writer’s World supports visual learners like no other text. Many chapter-opening photos are linked to concepts to help students retain key information. The Visualizing Writing CD-Rom, included in every copy of The Writer’s World, features 55 audio and animated “mini-lectures” on key writing and grammar topics. These mini-lectures help engage visual and audio learners by providing pertinent information in additional format.

     

    Varying Skill Level:

    The authors address students' varying skill-levels in the clarity of explanations and with the numerous practice exercises to help students master their individual areas of weakness. In addition, thematic grammar chapters make the material more engaging. And with grammar, more engaging often means more effective, allowing students to retain more of the key building blocks to becoming better writers.

     

    The Writer’s World addresses the diverse needs of your students!

     

    This text ships automatically with MyWritngLab

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    © 2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 512 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0131830414 | ISBN-13: 9780131830417
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    Whether your students enroll in the course with varying skill levels, whether they are native or nonnative speakers of English, or whether they learn better through the use of visuals, The Writer’s World can help students with varying needs come together and excel at becoming stronger, more consistent, and more creative writers. This ground breaking developmental writing series was written and designed from the ground up to address the greatest teaching challenges and the diverse needs of today’s students.

     

    The Writer’s World addresses the diverse needs of your students!

     

    This text ships automatically with MyWritingLab

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    ISBN-10: 0205651658 | ISBN-13: 9780205651658
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    • For developmental writing courses covering paragraphs and essays.

     

    Whether your students enroll in the course with varying skill levels, whether they are native or nonnative speakers of English, or whether they learn better through the use of visuals, The Writer’s World can help students with varying needs come together and excel at becoming stronger, more consistent, and more creative writers. This ground breaking developmental writing series was written and designed from the ground up to address the greatest teaching challenges and the diverse needs of today’s students.

     

    The Writer’s World addresses the diverse needs of your students!

     

    This text ships automatically with MyWritingLab

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    Gaetz & Phadke
    © 2009 | Prentice Hall | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 672 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205628451 | ISBN-13: 9780205628452
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    • For developmental writing courses covering sentences and paragraphs.

     

    Whether your students enroll in the course with varying skill levels, whether they are native or nonnative speakers of English, or whether they learn better through the use of visuals, The Writer’s World can help students with varying needs come together and excel at becoming stronger, more consistent, and more creative writers. This ground breaking developmental writing series was written and designed from the ground up to address the greatest teaching challenges and the diverse needs of today’s students.

     

    The Writer’s World addresses the diverse needs of your students!

     

    This text ships automatically with MyWritingLab

  • 0205657818Writer's World, The: Sentences and Paragraphs (with MyWritingLab Student Access Code Card), 2/E
    Gaetz & Phadke
    © 2009 | Prentice Hall | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 528 pages | Estimated Availability: 08/01/2008
    ISBN-10: 0205657818 | ISBN-13: 9780205657810
    Brief Description

 

Pearson Higher Education offers special pricing when you choose to package your text with other student resources. If you're interested in creating a cost-saving package for your students, browse our available packages below, or contact your Pearson Higher Education representative to create your own package.