Real stories : the all-inclusive text book for developmental writing and reading / Toni Ortner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ortner, Toni, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College readers.

English language--Composition and exercises.

English language.

English language--Rhetoric.

English language--Usage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Optima Books, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Real Stories is a writing and reading text that works. The method Toni Ortner discusses is classroom-tested and designed to meet the needs of multi-cultural high school students. It contains three sections: "The Process of Writing" covers the basic building blocks of writing. "Time Savers for Grammar and Punctuation" includes types of sentences, how to find and eliminate runs-ons, comma splices and fragments, comma use, nouns, capitalization, direct quotes, verb tenses, and irregular verbs, practice exercises, an answer key, and tests. "The Reader" contains students' personal stories for analysis and discussion. Real Stories helps students use words to empower and enrich their lives.

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Preface; Contents; The Process of Writing; Introduction; The Paragraph; The Basic Parts of a Paragraph; Working With the Topic Sentence; Why a Clear and Specific Topic is Necessary; The Body of the Paragraph; The Concluding Sentence; Prewriting Techniques; Clustering; Fast-writing; Listing; Which Prewriting Technique Should You Use?; Writing Paragraphs; The Descriptive Paragraph; The Narrative Paragraph; The Illustrative Paragraph; The Definition Paragraph; The Process Paragraph; The Essay; The Form of an Essay; Preparing to Write an Essay

Using an Outline to Plan Your EssayWriting Essays; The Descriptive Essay; The Narrative Essay; The Illustrative Essay; The Definition Essay; The Process Essay; The Essay of Comparison and Contrast; The Revision Section; What to Understand About Proofreading; Methods of Proofreading; Checklist-Editing for Content; Checklist-Proofreading for Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling; Checklist-For Use With Another Student; The Benefits of Working With a Writing Partner; Why You Should Write the Truth; Time-Savers for Grammar and Punctuation; Introduction; Nouns; Common and Proper Nouns

Forming the Plurals of NounsForming the Possessives of Nouns; Verbs; Action Verbs; Linking Verbs; Verb Tenses; The Simple Tenses; The Present Tense; The Past Tense; Irregular Verbs in the Past Tense; The Future Tense; The Perfect Tenses; What is the Past Participle?; The Present Perfect Tense; The Past Perfect Tense; The Future Perfect Tense; The Past Participle of Irregular Verbs; Three Confusing Verb Pairs; rise and raise; lie and lay; sit and set; The Sentence; The Simple Sentence; The Compound Sentence; The Complex Sentence; Identifying and Correcting Sentence Errors; Sentence Fragments

Run-On SentencesComma Splices; Punctuation and Capitalization; The Apostrophe; The Comma; Direct Quotations; What to Capitalize; Answers to Exercises; The Reader; Students' Papers, Discussion Questions, Writing Assignments; Introduction; Special People; Someone Who Deeply Affected Me; Uncle Everything; Billy Woodbury; A Special Man; My Sister; Grandparents; My Father is My Best Friend; What Love Is; My Father; My Life: A Comparison and Contrast; Secrets; Cherished Objects; The Baseball; My Favorite Object; The Scarf; The Crib; My Special Book; My Porcelain Doll; My Camino Cross; My Computer

Early MemoriesMy First Childhood Memory; The Earliest Memory I Have; My Most Embarrassing Moment; Memories of a Courtyard; Owning a Home; The Night of the Blizzard; Fears; The Most Frightening Experience in My Life; The Night I'll Never Forget; The Most Terrible Experience of My Life; Almost Blind; The Me Nobody Knows; My Most Frightening Moment; Close to Death; Drugs; Fears of Growing Old; My Fear of Being Old; AIDS; The Most Terrible Dream I Ever Had; Tornado; Not a Perfect Life; Serious Changes; Graffiti; From Dependence to Self-Reliance; An Abortive Relationship; Jealousy

The Cry of My Child

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 20, 2016).

ISBN:

9781504028981

1504028988