Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.042
EAN num: 9780618271924
ISBN number: 0618271929
Label: Houghton Mifflin Company
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: October 03, 2003
Publishing house: Houghton Mifflin Company
Sale Popularity Level: 439405
Studio: Houghton Mifflin Company
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The second level of a three-book series, Great Paragraphs introduces students to the process of paragraph writing and teaches them how to generate, develop, and organize their ideas. The variety of exercises include group and pair work as well as relevant study of reading skills, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization, providing comprehensive practice in writing process and development. Model sentences and paragraphs on a range of topics provide solid examples of paragraph organization and cohesion.
Each model paragraph includes brief pre- and post-reading questions that focus on features such as structure and rhetorical patterns. Sentence-level work helps students understand different lengths and types of construction and gives them practice combining shorter sentences into longer, cohesive ones. A final writing task in each unit asks students to practice paragraph writing in any rhetorical style on an assigned topic (throughout Part 1) or adhere to the mode featured in the unit (Part 2). Part 2 also features five additional writing assignments on a variety of topics.
- Writer's Notes present brief strategies that help students write effectively.
- Language Focus introduces grammar topics related to the type of writing practiced in the unit.
- Proofreading sections offer a variety of exercises that help students look for grammatical errors and correct their own compositions.
- Sequencing activities provide practice using writing devices that connect or act as a transition between words and phrases.
- Copying exercises ask students to practice paragraph form, helping them become familiar with the flow of sentences and transitional elements.
- Analyzing a Paragraph takes students through a series of questions that help them fully understand the different elements of a paragraph.
- Peer Editing Sheets use specific questions to guide students through their classmates' work and teach them how to constructively comment and offer suggestions for improvement.
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This book is intended to be used in the classrooms where students need to start writing essays while they are finishing paragraph writing and beginning to try to write "standard" 5-paragraph college essays. The rhetorical modes of academic essay (definition, classification, argumentative etc) are not dealt with; instead, in the last chapter the reader will find an effective presentation on how paragraphs are used to compose an essay and their basic components such as the thesis statement and topic sentences. In the appendix, there are exercises on how to make longer sentences from shorter and repetitive sentences students need to avoid when they are writing college essays. This type of exercise is quite useful especially when students have difficulty in writing formal, academic sentences in their paragraphs. The language of the book is pedagogically suitable. As a EFL/ESL writing instructor, you do not need to explain or paraphrase the same thing in simpler language to help students understand better.
In the further editions of the book, if the publisher and the writer have a plan for this, there could be a section or a chapter on how to paraphrase ideas, statements effectively within the same paragraph or essay as part of the coherency and avoidance from repeating the similar phrases all the time.
I gave four stars because I would expect to find more sample paragraphs and a couple of more essays of various lengths and rhetorical modes although the book is limited to paragraphs and 5-paragraph essay.
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