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College Writing Skills with Readings offers students a practical guide to becoming better writers. From mastering the traditional five-paragraph essay and its variations to learning about the finer points of grammar and punctuation, College Writing Skills with Readings empowers students to take control of their writing and put it to work for them. Now, with the new online writing program Connect Writing and the soon-to-come Connect Langan, an online interactive version of College Writing Skills with Readings, this new eighth edition brings writing closer to students and helps to take them where they need to go. Whether online or in class, College Writing Skills with Readings offers students the tools to succeed.

“College Writing Skills with Readings” Reviews:

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I use this text for my remedial college freshman English course to help them brush up on grammar, punctuation, and writing forms before moving on to freshman English. My students have always liked it, and so have I.The readings within it are short, simple, and easy for anyone of any skill to read. They all evoke some sort of response out of my class and have even converted some “non-readers” into new devotees. This text might also be useful for high school English courses. The only reason I don’t give it 5 stars is because some of the grammar/punctuation sections don’t have quite enough exercises in them to help some lower-level students get a firm grasp on the ideas. However, any teacher well-armed with worksheets can remedy that problem immediately!

Review by English Geek
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I teach developmental writing at a local community college. My department decided on this book long before I started teaching there. I’ve found the grammar section of this book useless. anytime I have ever assigned a chapter for my students to read from it, they all complained in unison that it was “boring, too broad, and way too confusing.” There is not a single note in the entire text about how to combine sentences using subordination, coodination, or relative pronouns, much less how to punctuate them.

With the writing section, there is one decent chapter on how to write a thesis statement. The chapters on the individual rhetorical patterns, on the other hand, present students with two student models and a professional essay, but no explanation or exercises on how to actually write an illustrative or descriptive or definition essay. As a result, I am a slave to the copy machine. Since I am required to make my students buy this useless book, I photocopy material for students to use to initially help them learn the material. I then use the material from Langan’s as additional practice, just so students don’t feel like they wasted valuable money.

Even the companion website is a pain. I thought of using the companion website for my students, but I found it particularly confusing to get around. In addition, it is next to impossible for me me to assign anything from the website because nothing can be printed, emailed, or pasted.

Review by Kimberly A. Morano
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Excellent book, it is definitely worth the money. After reading this book, you will be able to write perfect essays. Very good explanations on theses.

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Price: $ 83.99

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Designed for intermediate to advanced students, this text equips readers with the necessary skills to write confidently in French in a range of situations. Suitable for use as a classroom text or as a self-study course, it is carefully structured to ensure a better understanding of the effect of choice of words, register and style.

Each chapter contains a selection of model texts, activities and clear notes on the format, style and language demonstrated. Every activity also has a model answer in the key, which also offers advice, explanations and further examples to support the student’s learning. Features include:

* key learning points clearly indicated at the beginning of each chapter
* a rich selection of model texts f

“Developing Writing Skills in French” Reviews:

Review by Suzanne
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There were a few helpful exercises in this book, however, for the most part, I did not believe it was very well-organized. There are better grammar books out there.

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• ISBN13: 9780062730480
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Every phase of writing is addressed in this authoritative, practical guide. Specific topics include: organizing information, discovering a personal voice, enhancing readability and checking grammar and spelling. Featuring hundreds of exercises and written in a relaxed, entertaining style, this is the perfect aid for the many Americans who wish to improve their communication skills in both their business and personal lives.

“The Classic Guide to Better Writing: Step-by-Step Techniques and Exercises to Write Simply, Clearly and Correctly” Reviews:

Review by Professor Donald Mitchell
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Most people hated writing essays in school. At work, memorandums continue to be a pain to read . . . and an even bigger pain to write.

For the last three years, I’ve encouraged my graduate students to begin their studies by writing an essay based on Adler’s and Van Doren’s How to Read a Book. Then, I ask the same students to read The Classic Guide to Better Writing, summarize its key points in 1,000 words, and then write 2,500 words about what they learned about how to improve the last essay they wrote.

After that experience, each student has become an effective writer . . . even though most were not before reading and applying this book.

I don’t know of another resource that is nearly as effective for learning how to be an effective writer of essays.

Although it takes time to develop this foundation skill, you’ll save much more time in the long run . . . and be much more effective in whatever you do if you read and apply Dr. Flesch’s classic.

Be sure to do the exercises!

Review by Andy Todes
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the most cogent and USEFUL guide to writing crisp, clean sentences. if you’re the type of person who learns best by example, this is your bible.

Review by Charles H. Stover
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This is a great book as a self learner or for use in the classroom. I use it as a college textbook for beginning English Composition. It provides a great review for things the student has forgotten from high school and gives a good foundation for writing more effective communications. This provides a worthwhile basis for all kinds of writing from casual letters to formal, academic term papers. It teaches about sentence structure, clauses, phrases, prepositions, exact wording, spelling, and much more. I recommend the book highly whether you are on your own or even if you are selecting a book for your students.

Overall Rating: (out of 10 reviews)

Price: $ 5.00