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Focus : writing paragraphs and essays

By: Campbell, Martha E
Material type: BookPublisher: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : Prentice Hall, c1999.Edition: 2nd.Description: xxi, 326 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.ISBN: 9780138964658Subject(s): English language -- Paragraphs | English language -- Grammar | Report writing
Summary:
This comprehensive rhetoric/workbook for developmental writers offers an integrated, balanced approach to paragraph and essay composition skills, grammar, and punctuation. It helps students experience writing as a holistic activity by teaching them specific grammar/punctuation rules within the context of the specific types of writing where they are most often used (and misused). A lower-level version of this text covering sentence and paragraph skills is now available as well.
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ch. 1. Focus on writing -- ch. 2. Focus on the paragraph -- ch. 3. Focus on development by example -- ch. 4. Focus on narration -- ch. 5. Focus on observation -- ch. 6. Focus on comparison/contrast -- ch. 7. Focus on the essay -- ch. 8. Focus on the problem-solving essay -- ch. 9. Focus on the persuasion essay -- ch. 10. Revising and editing strategies.

This comprehensive rhetoric/workbook for developmental writers offers an integrated, balanced approach to paragraph and essay composition skills, grammar, and punctuation. It helps students experience writing as a holistic activity by teaching them specific grammar/punctuation rules within the context of the specific types of writing where they are most often used (and misused). A lower-level version of this text covering sentence and paragraph skills is now available as well.

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