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Steps for Writers: Composing Essays, Volume 2 (Penguin Academics Series)
Phillip Eggers, Borough of Manhattan Community College

ISBN-10: 0321198824
ISBN-13: 9780321198822

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 288 pp
Published: 09/13/2006

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Concise and affordable, Steps for College Writers, Volume 2, teaches students the basics of composing solid paragraphs and essays in preparation for freshman composition.

 

Steps for College Writers is organized around three phases of college writing: finding one’s own writing process, writing essays based on one’s own experience and perceptions, and writing essays involving texts and research.  Grammar and usage, peer review, and student and professional models are incorporated throughout the text to effectively teach the writing process to today’s developing writers.

 

  • Affordable quality–As part of the Penguin Academic Series, Steps for College Writers offers a compact, trade-format size and streamlined narrative to make this book both easy to handle and easy to read. Its brevity and low cost allows instructors to easily supplement the basic text with other books, including those on the list of Penguin titles offered at a deep discount as part of the Longman/Penguin Program.
  • Graduated approach to grammar and composition–Because every developing writer is different and has specific needs, Phil Egger’s has organized Steps for College Writers around three phases of college writing to provide the needed flexibility to developing writers. The three levels of grammar and writing exercises — “Basic,” “Intermediate,” Challenge” — enable students to evolve through the process, be efficient by not working below level, and get plenty of rehearsal.
  • Confidence-building with student models and professional essays–The student models in each chapter offer examples of the kinds of writing students actually do; the professional examples provide texts for interpretation, analysis, and discussion, and are meant to inspire students to write better by witnessing how some of the best writers work.  Additionally, students are exposed to a mix of genres such as fiction and poetry.
  • Writing Tips boxes–Included in every chapter and meant to highlight core content from the chapters, these important reminders discuss tactics and the application of the material.  
  • Proofreading Practice–The importance of grammar is played out in the extensiveness of proofreading exercises that run throughout the text.  Exercises in every chapter provide students with multiple opportunities to hone their grammar skills in various contexts, and are offered at the basic, intermediate, and challenge levels.

Introduction: Visualizing the Essay

Student Essay

Step One: Developing Your Own Thinking, Writing, and Learning Process

1. Prewriting

Prewriting Experiments: Freewriting, Focused Writing, Brainstorming, Outlining, Clustering, Cubing

Interacting with Your Readers

Identifying Your Purpose

Prewriting Activities: A Glimpse of a Student Writer at Work

Writing Tip #1Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

Proofreading Practice: Identifying Sentence Divisions in Your Prewriting

Activities: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

2. Making a Point

Thesis Statements

Introductory Paragraph

Writing Tip #2

Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

Proofreading Practice: Agreement of Subjects/Verbs: Basic, Int., Challenge

3. Developing Your Body Paragraphs and Making Conclusions

Explaining and Illustrating Ideas in Your Body Paragraphs

Applying Techniques of Development

Choosing Modes of Development

Writing Tip #3

Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

Concluding Paragraphs

Proofreading Practice: Special Problems with Agreement: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

4. Global Revising: Doing an Extreme Makeover

Moving from Draft to Essay: A Glimpse of a Student Writer at Work

Testing Your Thesis: Looking for Digressions and Weak Spots

Achieving Continuity through Transitions

Improving Your Style: Breaking up, Varying and Combining Sentences

Interacting with Your Reader (reading aloud to others)

Peer Review Questions

Writing Tip #4

Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge Proofreading Practice: Subordination: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

5. Putting on the Final Touches

Improving Word Choice; Eliminating Wordiness

Proofreading Aloud; Locating Your Patterns of Error

Using Your Spelling and Grammar Check

Writing Tip #5

Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

Proofreading Practice: Spelling: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge:

Step Two: Writing Essays Based on Your Own Experience and Perceptions

6. Describing a Situation, Person, or Group

Visualizing Your Subject and Giving It Meaning

Student Essay

Organizing a Description

Example by a Published Author: Using Details

Writing Tip #6

Writing Exercises:Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

Essay Topics: Descriptive Writing

Peer Review Questions

Proofreading Practice: Adjectives & Adverbs: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

7. Telling a Story to Make a Point

Organizing Chronologically

Telling a Meaningful Story

Student Essay: Telling a Story to Make a Point

Example by a Published Author

Writing Tip #7

Writing Exercises:Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

Essay Topics: Narration

Peer Review Questions

Proofreading Practice: Past Tense: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

8. Enumerating Examples

Student Essay

Example by a Published Author

Writing Tip #8

Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

Essay Topics: Illustrating with ExamplesPeer Review Questions

Proofreading Practice: Parallelism: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

9. Defining a Term

Student Essay

Example by a Published Author

Examples of Short Definitions

Limiting the Scope of Your Definition

Examining Your Subject from Different Angles

Giving Examples of the Concept

Writing Tip #10Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

Essay Topics: Definition

Peer Review Questions

Proofreading Practice: Who and Which Clauses: Basic, Int., Challenge

Step Three: Writing Essays Based on Your Reading and Research

10. Making a Comparison

Comparing and Contrasting as a Way of Knowing

Types of Comparison

Gathering Facts on Both Subjects

Exploring Similarities and Differences: A Student Writer at Work

Organizing Your Material

Student Essay: Exploring Similarities and Differences

Example by a Published Author

Writing Tip #9

Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

Essay Topics: Comparison and Contrast

Peer Review Questions

Proofreading Practice: Modifiers in Comparisons: Basic, Int., Challenge

11. Explaining a Process or Procedure

“How To” Writing: Giving Clear Instructions

Student Essay: Explaining a Procedure

Analyzing a Process: Making the Connections

Researching Facts on the Process

Example by a Published Author: Analyzing a Process

Writing Tip #11

Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

Essay Topics: Procedural Writing

Peer Review Questions

Proofreading Practice: Present and Progressive Tenses: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

12. Analyzing Cause and Effect

Student Essay Example by a Published Author

Being Logical: Causes vs. Coincidences

Identifying all the Causes and Effects

Finding the Necessary Information

Writing Tip #12

Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

Essay Topics: Cause and Effect

Peer Review Questions

Proofreading Practice: Compound and Complex Sentences

13. Arguing Persuasively

Student Essay

Example by a Published Author

Guidelines for Persuasive Writing

Stressing the Argument, Not the Personalities

Approaching the Argument from Several Angles

Researching and Presenting Supporting Material

Writing Tip #13

Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

Essay Topics: Arguing Persuasively

Peer Review Questions

Proofreading Practice: Sentence Combining: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

14. Writing a Research Paper

Making Sense with Sources Summarizing and Paraphrasing

Quoting: the Long and Short of It

Using the Library and Internet

Analyzing Source Material; Evaluating Web Sites

Avoiding Plagiarism

Writing a Bibliography

Sample Short MLA paper

Writing Tip #14

Research Paper Checklist

Writing Exercises:Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

Essay Topics: Research Paper

Peer Review Questions

Proofreading Practice: MLA Form: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

15. Writing about Literature

Methods of Interpreting a Story, Play, or Poem

Student Essay

Example by a Published Author

Analyzing vs. Paraphrasing

Developing a Point by Using the Text

Writing Tip #15

Writing Exercises: Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

Essay Topics: Writing about Literature

Peer Review Questions

Proofreading Practice: Quoting Correctly from Literary Works,

Basic, Intermediate, Challenge

Appendix: Punctuation Handbook

 

Index of Grammar Topics

Adjectives and Adverbs

Agreement of Subject and Verb

Comma Splice

Compound and Complex Sentences

D Endings

Fragments

Irregular Verbs

Parallelism

Past Tense

Present and Progressive Tenses

Pronoun Case

Quoting

Run-on Sentences

S Endings

Sentence Combining

Sentence Divisions

Spelling

Subordination

Who and Which Clauses

Wordiness

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    © 1991 | Longman | Cloth | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0673534227 | ISBN-13: 9780673534224


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    Concise and affordable, Steps for College Writers, Volume 2, teaches students the basics of composing solid paragraphs and essays in preparation for freshman composition.

     

    Steps for College Writers is organized around three phases of college writing: finding one’s own writing process, writing essays based on one’s own experience and perceptions, and writing essays involving texts and research.  Grammar and usage, peer review, and student and professional models are incorporated throughout the text to effectively teach the writing process to today’s developing writers.

     
  • 0321198824Steps for Writers: Composing Essays, Volume 2 (Penguin Academics Series)
    Eggers
    © 2007 | Longman | Paper; 288 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321198824 | ISBN-13: 9780321198822
    Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

    • Steps for Writers teaches the basics of composing solid paragraphs and essays through a graduated approach to emphasize the author’s goal of growth and development.

     

    Phil Eggers’ graduated approach to writing and grammar empowers students to move in “steps” and build confidence as they progress through the book. Students who feel they need more practice can work through all levels; the more confident students can check their competency and move to the areas in which they are not proficient.  Similarly, the sequence of chapters also builds comfort with writing.  After an introduction to the writing process, students apply the steps to paragraph writing, building up to the essay.  This flexibility helps students overcome their anxiety, and, therefore, contributes to their discovery of writing’s intrinsic qualities.

  • 0321198816Steps for Writers: Composing Paragraphs, Volume 1, (Penguin Academics Series)
    Eggers
    © 2008 | Longman | Paper; 240 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321198816 | ISBN-13: 9780321198815
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