Get Ready to Write: A Beginning Writing Text - Softcover

Blanchard, Karen Lourie; Root, Christine Baker

9780201695175: Get Ready to Write: A Beginning Writing Text

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201695170 ISBN 13: 9780201695175

Publisher: Longman Pub Group, 1998

Beginning Level Good writing is a network of skills that can be taught, practiced, and mastered. The Longman Writing Skills series present paragraph development and composition skills in clear, teachable steps. Each book offers students dependable strategies as well as opportunities to bring their own ideas and talent to the writing process. Get Ready to Write introduces students to the fundamentals of effective writing. Students will progress from writing sentences to guided paragraphs, learn to apply organizational principles to the writing process, and at the end of the course, assemble their personal pieces into an autobiography. Other books in the series: Ready to Write (High-Beginning/Low-Intermediate Level) and Ready to Write More (Intermediate/High-Intermediate Level).

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From the Back Cover:

Set your students on the right course with the second edition of Get Ready to Write, by Karen Blanchard and Christine Root. With its student-centered approach, this edition teaches beginning students the basic composition skills required for good writing and helps them to become confident and independent writers.

Features

Model paragraphs that illustrate organizing elements such as topic sentences, supporting details, and signal words
Guided practice in writing sentences and paragraphs
New Real Life Writing tasks provide relevant writing contexts
Editing exercises that help students develop accuracy
New Appendices: the English alphabet, penmanship, punctuation rules, and irregular verbs.

The Ready to Write series also includes Ready to Write and Ready to Write More.

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