A Student's Companion for In Conversation
A Writer's Guidebook
Bedford/St.Martin's,Barbara Wallraff
- 226 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
A Student's Companion for In Conversation
A Writer's Guidebook
Bedford/St.Martin's,Barbara Wallraff
About This Book
A Student's Companion to In Conversation helps writers make the most of their handbook and their composition course. Its practical workbook format and attention to key topics taught in the course make it a useful tool for boosting student performance. Part 1 includes common college success strategies such as time management. Part 2 covers topics common to first-year composition such as essay development, active reading, audience awareness, peer review, revision, and working with sources. Part 3 includes 16 graphic organizers that help more visually-oriented students plan and organize different types of writing. And Part 4 includes exercises in sentence-level topics including parallelism, subject-verb agreement, fragments, using commas and quotation marks, and more. Offering more than 60 exercises and dozens of activities to engage students in the work of the course, A Student's Companion to In Conversation helps new academic writers get and stay on-level.
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Table of contents
- About this Book
- Part One Succeeding in College
- Part Two Succeeding in Your Writing Course
- Part Three Practicing Reading, Writing, and Research Skills
- Part Four Practicing Sentence Level Skills
- Answers to Exercises
- Extended Descriptions
- Inside Back Cover
- Back Cover