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Psychology in Everyday Life
Paragraphs and essays fifth edition | ©2020 laurie kirszner; stephen mandell.
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Focus on Writing offers clear, thorough coverage of college writing, with a chapter design that puts writing first. The Focus on Writing strand in Chapters 2-17 prompts students to write, learn essential concepts as they follow a student model, and apply those concepts to their own writing in a series of manageable steps. The text also empowers students with a unique tool for assessing and revising their work: the easy-to-grasp, easy-to-remember TEST (Topic sentence or Thesis statement, Evidence, Summary statement, and Transitions). A complete three-in-one text, Focus on Writing not only covers the process of writing paragraphs and essays but also includes a grammar guide with exercises and an essay collection. Supplementary online grammar practice through LaunchPad Solo for Readers and Writers rounds out this complete package.
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"This text offers everything developmental writers need to review and improve paragraph and basic essay writing. From color-coded paragraph plans, to chapter exercises, clear graphic organizers, a thorough handbook of grammar and mechanics, and thematic professional and student writing, it is the complete package." --Gina Santoro, Community College of Rhode Island
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Laurie G. Kirszner
During their long collaboration, Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell have written a number of best-selling college texts for Bedford/St. Martins, including Patterns for College Writing, Foundations First, *Writing First*, Focus on Writing, and, most recently, Practical Argument. Laurie Kirszner is a Professor of English, Emeritus at St. Joseph University. She has taught composition, literature, creative writing, and scientific writing, and she has also served as coordinator of a first-year writing program. Stephen Mandell is a Professor of English, Emeritus at Drexel University, where he founded and directed the basic writing program and has taught composition, literature, speech, and technical and business writing.
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Instructor's annotated edition Includes indexes Writing paragraphs and essays -- Writing paragraphs -- Patterns of paragraph development -- Writing essays -- Revising and editing your writing -- Writing sentences -- Solving common sentence problems -- Understanding basic grammar -- Understanding punctuation, mechanics, and spelling -- Becoming ...
Focus on Writing: Paragraphs and Essays, new from best-selling authors Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, is their most accessible writing text yet. Focus on Writing engages students visually, demonstrates concepts with color and highlighting, and offers students more grammar support than any comparable text on the market.
Focus for Success. Focus on Writing offers clear, thorough coverage of college writing, with a chapter design that puts writing first. The Focus on Writing strand in Chapters 2-17 prompts students to write, learn essential concepts as they follow a student model, and apply those concepts to their own writing in a series of manageable steps.
Focus on Writing offers clear, thorough coverage of college writing, with a chapter design that puts writing first. The Focus on Writing strand in Chapters 2-17 prompts students to write, learn essential concepts as they follow a student model, and apply those concepts to their own writing in a series of manageable steps.
UNIT 2 FOCUS ON WRITING PARAGRAPHS 2 Writing a Paragraph 2a Understanding Paragraph Structure 2b Focusing on Your Assignment, Purpose, and Audience 2c Finding Ideas to Write About 2d Identifying Your Main Idea and Writing a Topic Sentence 2e Choosing Supporting Points 2f Developing Supporting Points 2g Making an Outline 2h Drafting Your Paragraph
Over 7,000 institutions using Bookshelf across 241 countries. Focus on Writing: Paragraphs and Essays 5th Edition is written by Laurie G. Kirszner; Stephen R. Mandell and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Focus on Writing are 9781319225032, 1319225039 and the print ISBNs are 9781319207397, 1319207391.
Books. Focus on Writing: Paragraphs and Essays. Focus on Writing offers clear, thorough coverage of college writing, with a chapter design that puts writing first. The Focus on Writing strand in Chapters 2-17 prompts students to write, learn essential concepts as they follow a student model, and apply those concepts to their own writing in a ...
Focus on Writing. : Focus on Writing: Paragraphs and Essays is a clear, inviting text that engages students visually, demonstrates concepts with color and highlighting, and offers students the support and coverage they need to write well in college. Focus on Writing offers the unique self-assessment tool TEST ( T opic sentence, E vidence, S ...
A complete three-in-one text, Focus on Writing not only covers the process of writing paragraphs and essays but also includes a grammar guide with exercises and an essay collection. Supplementary online grammar practice through LaunchPad Solo for Readers and Writers rounds out this complete package.
Focus on Writing: Paragraphs and Essays, new from best-selling authors Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, is their most accessible writing text yet. Focus on Writing engages students visually, demonstrates concepts with color and highlighting, and offers students more grammar support than any comparable text on the market.