Grassroots with readings : the writer's workbook / by Susan Fawcett and Alvin Sandberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fawcett, Susan

Contributor:

Sandberg, Alvin

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Composition and exercises.

English language.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 484 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Edition:

7th ed., instructor's annotated ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, ©2002

Summary:

[The book] combines in one book the exciting seventh edition of our widely used basic writing text Grassroots and 22 high interest reading selections ... [The book] is designed for students who have not yet mastered the basic writing skills so necessary for success in college and in many careers ... Each selection is accompanied by a headnote, vocabulary glosses, comprehension questions and writing assignments.-Pref.

Contents:

Writing forceful paragraphs: Exploring the writing process; Prewriting to generate ideas; Developing effective paragraphs; Improving your paragraphs; Moving from paragraph to essay

Writing complete sentences: Subjects and verbs; Avoiding sentence fragments

Using verbs effectively: Present tense (agreement); Past tense; Past participle in action; Progressive tenses (TO BE + -ING verb form); Fixed-form helping verbs & verb problems

Joining ideas together: Coordination; Subordination; Avoiding run-ons & comma splices; Semicolons; Conjunctive adverbs; Relative pronouns; -ING modifiers

Choosing the right noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb or preposition: Nouns; Pronouns; Adjectives & adverbs; Prepositions

Revising for consistency & parallelism: Consistent tense; Consistent person; Parallelisms

Mastering mechanics: Capitalization; Commas; Apostrophes; Direct and indirect quotations

Improving your spelling: Spelling; Look-alikes/sound-alikes

Reading selections & quotation bank.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

0618115862

9780618115860

OCLC:

70870278