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College Writing Resources with Readings (with MYWritingLab Student Access Code Card)
Elizabeth C. Long, Sacramento City College

ISBN-10: 0321462874
ISBN-13: 9780321462879

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper Package; 850 pp
Published: 10/04/2006

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College Writing Resources, the complete resource for your essay writing course, provides strong, clear writing instruction guiding students in the process of composing essays in a variety of modes and an unsurpassed amount of exercises.

 

The third of a three-book series, College Writing Resources offers the same features and strengths that have made the lower-level texts in the series an instant success, and was written for the essay- and bridge-level course. Betsy Long’s successful writing framework, the "Four Cs," is integrated into each chapter, showing students how to check their work for the elements of good writing at every stage of development.  An appealing four-color design showcases the photos and adds visual interest for an increasingly visual student body. Adhering to the principle that more practice, greater practice, is central to helping the developing writer, the author has included a wealthy set of exercises for effective reinforcement.  (A companion lab manual provides additional reinforcement for students.) Examples are drawn from a wide variety of sources–novels, newspapers, magazines–for high interest topics.  Each chapter begins with a cultural note that builds students' cultural literacy and provides the context for the chapter’s samples essays and exercises.


  • The "Four Cs"—This framework of concise, credible, clear, correct checkpoints is used consistently to reinforce corresponding skills, and leads the student through the steps of the writing process.
  • Clear, accessible instruction-The author's non-condescending tone and the text's contemporary, upbeat language will appeal to students.

  • Varied role of research–The tiered research levels enable instructors to assign activities with no, little, or heavy research.

  • Cultural literacy theme—Each chapter is introduced by a short "Culture Note" on topics ranging from the lighthearted to the serious across the academic spectrum; that topic is carried throughout the chapter in illustrations, sample paragraphs, and exercises.
  • Highly visual design—More than 75 color photos and 30 diagrams to elucidate cultural themes and pedagogical concepts are provided to keep interest and invite students to respond in writing.
  • Peer evaluation and self-analysis—Students are encouraged to monitor their own progress through goal sheets and to work cooperatively with their peers using a peer editing worksheet.
  • Stimulating readings—The readings were selected for their topics of interest to contemporary students, and are accompanied by exercises that help readers digest the material and respond in writing.
  • Text-specific lab manual—A separate companion lab manual to supplement each chapter with additional practice is available in print or online.
  • MyWritingLab: Where better practice makes better writers!—MyWritingLab, a complete online learning program, provides progressive exercise sets that take students from literal comprehension to critical application to demonstrating the skills in their own writing.

    • I. GETTING STARTED

    1. Your Strengths as a Writer       

    2. Having a Reader and a Reason: Understanding Audience and Purpose

    3. The Bases of Good Writing: The Four Cs

    II. THE WRITING PROCESS

    4. Prewriting

    5. Drafting: Writing a Rough Draft

    6. Making Changes: Revision

    7. Editing: Checking for Correctness

    III. THE ELEMENTS OF GOOD WRITING  

    8. Essay Paragraphs and the Thesis Statement

    9. Supporting Your Ideas 10. Organizing and Linking Ideas

    11. Sensitive Language

    12. Confusing Words

    13. Choosing the Best Word 

    14. Improving Your Spelling

    15. Varying Your Sentences 

    16. Format

    IV. STRATEGIES FOR ESSAY DEVELOPMENT  

    17. Providing Illustrations and Examples   

    18. Narrating an Event or Story  

    19. Describing a Scene, Person, or Object

    20. Classifying and Dividing 21. Explaining a Process

    22. Comparison and Contrast     

    23. Cause and Effect Development

    24. Definition

    25. Arguing a Position

    26. Using More than One Organizational Strategy

    V. WRITING FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES

    27. Writing an In-Class Essay

    28. Writing Summaries and Reports

    29. Writing to Get a Job

    VI. RESEARCH

    30. Searching for, Evaluating, and Integrating Information  

    31. Writing a Research Essay  

    VII. WRITING CORRECT SENTENCES  

    Grammar diagnostic

    32. Prepositional Phrases          

    33. Subjects and Verbs

    34. Clauses

    35. Run-On Sentences

    36. Fragments

    37. Regular Verbs

    38. Irregular Verbs

    39. Subject-Verb Agreement

    40. Verb Tense and Tense Consistency

    41. Pronoun Types

    42. Pronoun Agreement

    43. Adjectives and Adverbs

    44. Misplaced Modifiers

    45. Dangling Modifiers

    Punctuation Diagnostic

    46. Commas

    47. Apostrophes

    48. Quotation Marks

    49. Other Punctuation Marks

    50. Capitalization

    51. Abbreviations and Numbers

    52. ESL Tips

    VIII. READINGS

    Readings for Informed Writing

    Our Identities

    READING 1 “Liked for Myself,” Maya Angelou

    READING 2 “Saving the Home from Martha Stewart,” Elizabeth Austin

    READING 3 “The Misery of Silence,” Maxine Hong Kingston

    READING 4 “Respectable addiction,” Michael Kinsman

    READING 5 “Labor,” Richard Rodriguez

    READING 6 “Hearing the Sweetest Songs,” Nicolette Toussaint

    Our World

    READING 7 “So Tiny, So Sweet . . . So Mean,” Richard Conniff

    READING 8 “Creatures That Haunt the Americas,” Constance García-Barrio

    READING 9 “Four Kinds of Reading,” Donald Hall

    READING 10 “Caught in the Catty Corner,” Nanci Hellmich

    READING 11 “Poor Winnie the Pooh. Not even he is safe from rampant‘therapism,’ ” Ben MacIntyre

    READING 12 “Two Gentlemen of the Pines,” John McPhee

    Our Values

    READING 13 “Whose Life is it, Anyway?” Mary Battiata

    READING 14 “A Reason to Forgive,” Pat Burson

    READING 15 “Petty Crime, Outrageous Punishment: Why the Three-Strikes Law Doesn’t Work,” Carl M.

      College Writing Resources, the complete resource for your essay writing course, provides strong, clear writing instruction guiding students in the process of composing essays in a variety of modes and an unsurpassed amount of exercises.

       

      The third of a three-book series, College Writing Resources offers the same features and strengths that have made the lower-level texts in the series an instant success, and was written for the essay- and bridge-level course. Betsy Long’s successful writing framework, the "Four Cs," is integrated into each chapter, showing students how to check their work for the elements of good writing at every stage of development.  An appealing four-color design showcases the photos and adds visual interest for an increasingly visual student body. Adhering to the principle that more practice, greater practice, is central to helping the developing writer, the author has included a wealthy set of exercises for effective reinforcement.  (A companion lab manual provides additional reinforcement for students.) Examples are drawn from a wide variety of sources–novels, newspapers, magazines–for high interest topics.  Each chapter begins with a cultural note that builds students' cultural literacy and provides the context for the chapter’s samples essays and exercises.

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