BETTER WRITING THROUGH EDITING: STUDENT TEXT

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-07-049885-3
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 218 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 764 g

Better Writing Through Editing teaches intermediate students how to edit their own writing for correct sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and expression. Using a systematic approach for studying writing and editing problems, students discover their individual strengths and weaknesses and are encouraged to monitor their own progress.Part 1, Getting Started, begins with a diagnostic self-assessment to determine each students' awareness of typical ESL/EFL editing problems. Students also learn an editing system that they can use to evaluate their own writing.Part 2, Writing Focus, provides practice with a variety of English sentence types and features writing assignments based on a chapter theme and a rhetorical focus.Part 3, Editing Focus, provides clear and simple explanations of typical ESL/EFL editing problems and contains hundreds of practice exercises. The chapters in the Editing Focus section can be done in any order, thus allowing a teacher to customize learning while simultaneously completing the Writing Focus chapters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peterson, Jan

Hagen, Stacy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Getting Started Chapter 1 Beginning Editing: Assessment Chapter 2 The Editing System Chapter 3 Sample Writing Chapter 4 Sample Charts Chapter 5 Sample Rewrite Part 2: Writing Focus Chapter 1 ESL Students- Simple Sentences Chapter 2 Siblings- Less Formal Compound Sentences Chapter 3 Holidays- More Formal Compund Sentences Chapter 4 In the Sky- Complex Sentences: Adverb Clauses Chapter 5 Places- Complex Sentences: Adjective Clauses Chapter 6 Sports- Combination Sentences Chapter 7 Personal Stories- Sentence Variety Part 3: Editing Focus Chapter 1 Unclear Sentences and Translation Problems Chapter 2 Fragments Chapter 3 Run-ons Chapter 4 Comma Splice Chapter 5 Verbs Chapter 6 Singular/Plural Chapter 7 Subject-Verb Agreement Chapter 8 Noun-Pronoun Agreement Chapter 9 Word Choice Chapter 10 Word Form Chapter 11 Word Order Chapter 12 Prepositions Chapter 13 Articles Chapter 14 Punctuation Chapter 15 Capitalization Chapter 16 Spelling Chapter 17 Final Editing: AssessmentAppendicesAppendix 1: Irregular VerbsAppendix 2: NounsAppendix 3: Word FormAppendix 4: Gerunds and InfinitivesAppendix 5: QuotationsAppendix 6: CapitalizationAppendix 7: SpellingAnswer Keys--Beginning and Final Editing AssessmentsStudent NotebookError ChartProgress ChartSentence Types ChartSentence Types Progress ChartUnclear ErrorsWord Choice ErrorsSpelling Errors