Download or read book Grammar and Style Choices for College Writers written by Olga Griswold and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a practical guide to grammar and style choices for college writers, giving students a basic vocabulary for thinking and talking about language use and enabling them to make purposeful choices in their writing. Each section includes a short overview of a grammatical topic accompanied by exercises for raising the students’ awareness of and skills in using specific grammatical structures. It focuses on the practical and rhetorical functions of grammatical structures as they are used in expository and analytic writing, rather than on de-contextualized grammatical rules. Students will develop a repertoire of grammatical choices and understand the strategic reasons for making these choices in their writing for various audiences. It particularly attends to the structures that present the most difficulty for college students from multilingual communities and communities where a non-standard dialect of English is used on a daily basis. This textbook can be used as a core textbook for grammar course as well as a supplementary text for composition courses. It is also suitable for courses tailored to multilingual, advanced non-native, or non-standard speakers of English.
Download or read book Writers Choices written by Michael Kischner and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for college composition instructors who want to devote one part of their course to English sentence structure and style. This handbook teaches traditional English syntax and immediately shows students how to apply that knowledge. Full of stimulating, college-level exercises, this text is user-friendly and empowers students with conscious knowledge of the tools at their disposal when writing.
Download or read book Read Write Edit written by Patricia Porter and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read, Write, Edit focuses on grammar structure and editing strategies to help students learn the necessary skills to express themselves accurately and effectively in college writing. Readings from a variety of academic genres and disciplines expose students to writing and grammar concepts as they appear in context.
Download or read book Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers Second Edition written by Nigel A Caplan and published by University of Michigan Press ELT. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammar Choices is a different kind of grammar book: It is written for graduate students, including MBA, master’s, and doctoral candidates, as well as postdoctoral researchers and faculty. Additionally, it describes the language of advanced academic writing with more than 300 real examples from successful graduate students and from published texts, including corpora. Each of the eight units in Grammar Choices contains: an overview of the grammar topic; a preview test that allows students to assess their control of the target grammar and teachers to diagnose areas of difficulty; an authentic example of graduate-student writing showing the unit grammar in use; clear descriptions of essential grammar structures using the framework of functional grammar, cutting-edge research in applied linguistics, and corpus studies; vocabulary relevant to the grammar point is introduced—for example, common verbs in the passive voice, summary nouns used with this/these, and irregular plural nouns; authentic examples for every grammar point from corpora and published texts; exercises for every grammar point that help writers develop grammatical awareness and use, including completing sentences, writing, revising, paraphrasing, and editing; and a section inviting writers to investigate discipline-specific language use and apply it to an academic genre. Among the changes in the Second Edition are: new sections on parallel form (Unit 2) and possessives (Unit 5) revised and expanded explanations, but particularly regarding verb complementation, complement noun clauses, passive voice, and stance/engagement a restructured Unit 2 and significantly revised/updated Unit 7 new Grammar Awareness tasks in Units 3, 5, and 6 new exercises plus revision/updating of many others self-editing checklists in the Grammar in Your Discipline sections at the end of each unit representation of additional academic disciplines (e.g., engineering, management) in example sentences and texts and in exercises.
Download or read book Grammar Style and Structure written by Laura Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Through the Mist and Toward the Light written by Gary Montano and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the Mist and toward the Light: Grammar for the First Year College Writer offers a new approach to grammatical concepts to encourage and improve the grammar proficiency and writing skills for beginning writers. Far from a traditional handbook, the text presents innovative, engaging, practical, and accessible approaches to grammar that is often found difficult to first year college students. Section 1 of the text builds on the premise that good sentence
Download or read book Introductory College Grammar and Writing written by Marian Anders and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introductory College Grammar and Writing guides students through the basics of grammar and writing using a unique step-by-step approach. The friendly, conversational style and engaging topics for both practice sentences and paragraphs create a tone that is sophisticated yet easy to understand. In the grammar section, students learn a logical process for finding subjects, verbs, phrases, and clauses and then how to identify and fix fragments, comma splices, and run-ons. In the writing section, students are guided through the writing process to write a variety of basic-level paragraphs with emphasis on topic sentence and support. Introductory College Grammar and Writing develops students' confidence and provides them with a solid foundation for learning more advanced material."--Publisher description.
Download or read book Exploring Options in Academic Writing written by Jan Frodesen and published by University of Michigan Press ELT. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Options is designed to help student writers develop their knowledge and use of academic language to meet the demands of college- and university-level writing assignments. It draws on the research identifying lexical and grammatical patterns across academic contexts and provides authentic reading contexts for structured vocabulary learning. Recognizing that vocabulary choices in writing often require consideration of grammatical structure, Exploring Options focuses on specific kinds of lexico-grammatical decisions—that is, the ones involving the interaction between vocabulary and grammar--that students face in shaping, connecting, and restructuring their ideas. The book helps writers learn how to effectively use resources such as learner dictionaries, thesauruses, and concordancers to improve academic word knowledge. Following a unit on using resources for vocabulary development, the contents are divided into three parts: Showing Relationships within Sentences, Connecting and Focusing across Sentences, and Qualifying Statements and Reporting Research. Part 1 focuses on verbs and modifiers that express increases and decreases, verbs and abstract nouns that describe change, connectors and verbs describing causal relationships, and parallel structures. Part 2 explores the words that help connect ideas and add cohesion. Part 3 discusses how to express degrees of certainty and accuracy and the use of reporting verbs.
Download or read book Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers written by Nigel A. Caplan and published by Michigan Series in English for. This book was released on 2012 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Grammar Choices is cross-referenced with Academic Writing for Graduate Students, 3rd edition (Swales & Feak, 2012)."-- P. 4 of cover.
Download or read book Writer s Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Idiots Guides Grammar Style written by Mark Peters and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a clear, no-nonsense guide to mastering grammar and writing style.
Download or read book Writer s Choice Grammar Workbook 11 written by McGraw-Hill/Glencoe and published by McGraw-Hill/Glencoe. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The College Writer s Reference written by Toby Fulwiler and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief handbook offers the most focus on the writing process. The entire book is also available on the Internet, where it is fully searchable and customizable. This writing handbook focuses on the writing process, the research process, document design, clarity, punctuation, grammar, and documentation. This is a perfect reference for anyone wanting to produce effective written communications.
Download or read book The Practical Grammar Handbook for College Writers written by Marian Anders and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many college students do not know how to find the subject or verb of a sentence, much less how to use commas or semi-colons properly. Yet teachers need to spend their class time teaching the composition and thinking skills needed for college-level writing. The Practical Grammar Handbook for College Writers (formerly My Dog Bites the English Teacher) allows teachers to cover all the grammar students need for correct writing in as little as 10 minutes a week for college-level writing courses.Unlike other handbooks cluttered with rarely needed information, The Practical Grammar Handbook for College Writers focuses on the grammar students need to write clearly and correctly. Appropriate both for higher developmental and college-level writing classes, it provides a step-by-step curriculum that guides students to a thorough understanding in the structure of the English language. The Practical Grammar Handbook for College Writers can be used as a teaching textbook in developmental courses, and it is also very effective as a reference book for college-level courses because it explains concepts clearly so that students can read and understand the material on their own. The chapter on research skills presents the steps for writing a research paper in a clear, logical manner that begins with analyzing a complete research paper and then discussing the various tasks involved in creating that paper. It anticipates the issues and answers the questions that always come up for students — those writing their first research paper and those with more experience.The Practical Grammar Handbook for College Writers makes life much easier both for the students and the teacher. Students who have a natural ability for language will finally know WHY they put a comma in a sentence, and students who are more mathematically inclined will rejoice that at last grammar makes sense.
Download or read book Glencoe Writer s Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Writer s Handbook written by James D. Lester and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1991 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: