Strauch, Ann O.,

Bridges to academic writing / Ann O. Strauch. - xxviii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Composing: the Basics -- Writing about a Person -- Narrating a Personal Experience -- Providing Examples -- Supplying Reasons -- Explaining with Parallel Points -- Composing: Responding To Outside Sources -- Proverbs and Quotations -- Writing a Summary -- Articles from Magazines and Newspapers -- Selections from Literature -- Supplementary Material for Refining Skills -- Distinguishing General and Specific Ideas -- Narrowing a Topic -- Writing Titles -- Focusing on Main Ideas -- Practicing Support -- Practicing Conclusions -- Deciding on Paragraph Size -- The Product: Three Essentials -- Process Writing -- Your Personal Spelling List -- Grammar Highlights. Section One. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Section Two. 6. 7. 8. 9. Section Three. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5. Part 6. Part 7. Appendix 1. Appendix 2. Appendix 3. Appendix 4.

"Bridges to Academic Writing is a high-beginning/low-intermediate ESL/ELT composition text that focuses first and foremost on a process approach to writing while it includes work on the basic organizational patterns of writing commonly used in English. In this way, Bridges to Academic Writing blends an in-depth process approach with organizational patterns such as narration, reasons, summary, and response. Offering flexibility in the presentation of material, the text progresses from more controlled to less controlled tasks and contains a broad selection of engaging readings that will stimulate students to write. Within this process-based framework, the stages of the writing process are simplified into seven easy-to-follow steps while the how-to's of paragraph and composition development are given in-depth coverage. The text incorporates dozens of model compositions, many of which represent adaptations of student writing, and includes a wide variety of high-interest personal and academic writing assignments."--Publisher description.

0312132832 9780312132835

95073173


English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc.
Academic writing--Problems, exercises, etc.
College readers

PE1128 / .S88 1997

808.042