Writer's World, The: Paragraphs and Essays With Enhanced Reading Strategies, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (May 12, 2017) © 2018
  • Lynne Gaetz
  • Suneeti Phadke

Title overview

For courses in Developmental English with students of varying skill levels or those needing practice prior to college-level writing.

A visual, theme-based approach to get student writers where they need to be

The Writer's World series offers a visual program with effective strategies for different skill levels and coverage for nonnative speakers. Informed by the authors' 30+ years of combined teaching experience the text will help you address the needs, interests, and abilities of as many students as possible. Instructional material seamlessly infused for both native and nonnative speakers, combines with exercises for participation and collaboration.

The 5th Edition maintains its signature open layout design with dynamic images that support visual learners and prompt critical thinking.

Hallmark features of this title

  • The expertly illustrated text illuminates concepts (e.g., paragraph patterns) with graphics and provides practice writing in response to images.
  • Seamlessly integrated ESL material allows nonnative speakers to benefit, while concisely reinforcing lessons for native speakers.
  • More than 75 ESL Teaching Tips in the Annotated Instructor's Edition stem from the authors' teaching experience, input from 16 English language training experts and user feedback.
  • Vocabulary Boosts throughout prompt students to improve their writing by growing their vocabulary.
  • Thematic grammar chapters engage students in learning grammar in the context of compelling topics.
  • Chapter Hint boxes and Reflect On It exercises prompt review and practice with key writing and grammar points.
  • Free download: The Pearson Guide to the 2021 MLA Handbook.

New and updated features of this title

  • NEW: A clean, modern design streamlines instruction, increases usability, and combines with compelling new images (from iconic locales to culture icons) to help students efficiently find and retain material, while giving the text a current, engaging feel.
  • NEW: Thematic grammar chapters provide current grammar instruction in the context of interesting topics and feature new and updated grammar practices, as well as 7 new readings related to chapter themes.
  • UPDATED: Writing exercises include more contemporary writing activities (brief to spark freely formed ideas; expanded to provide more direction). Refreshed Writer's Desk exercises cover all steps of the writing process and Media Writing exercise focus on responding to visual cues.
  • NEW: Extra reading strategies are included (e.g., skimming, scanning, using context clues, making inferences). Dozens of sample paragraphs, essays and practices help build reading skills and better equip students to do research for essay writing.
  • NEW: Student and professional essays (annotated to highlight components) have been added and improved to support essay pattern coverage. Each is followed by a professional essay and a set of questions to test learning.
  • NEW: Updated 2016 MLA guidelines are reflected in the in-text citation and Works Cited formats.

Key features

Features of Revel for the 5th Edition

  • Videos, audio recordings, animations, and multimedia instruction provide context that enables students to engage with the text in a more meaningful way.
  • Interactive readings and exercises help students explore and connect with the text. Robust annotation tools allow students to take notes, while post-reading assignments let instructors monitor the completion of readings before class begins.
  • Just-in-time context (encompassing biographical, historical, and social insights) is incorporated throughout, giving students a deeper understanding of what they read.
  • Low-stakes, medium-stakes, and high-stakes writing tasks allow students multiple opportunities to interact with the ideas presented in the reading assignments, ensuring that they come to class better prepared.

Table of contents

BRIEF CONTENTS

Readings Listed by Rhetorical Mode

Preface

PART 1: The Writing Process

  1. Exploring
  2. Developing
  3. Revising and Editing

PART 2: Paragraph Patterns

  1. Illustration
  2. Narration
  3. Description
  4. Process
  5. Definition
  6. Classification
  7. Comparison and Contrast
  8. Cause and Effect
  9. Argument

PART 3: The Essay

  1. Writing the Essay
  2. Essay Patterns
  3. Enhancing Your Writing with Research

PART 4: The Editing Handbook

  1. Subjects and Verbs in Simple Sentences
  2. Compound Sentences
  3. Complex Sentences
  4. Sentence Variety
  5. Fragments
  6. Run-Ons
  7. Faulty Parallel Structure
  8. Present and Past Tenses
  9. Past Participles
  10. Other Verb Forms
  11. Subject—Verb Agreement
  12. Tense Consistency
  13. Nouns, Determiners, and Prepositions
  14. Pronouns
  15. Adjectives and Adverbs
  16. Mistakes with Modifiers
  17. Exact Language
  18. Spelling and Commonly Confused Words
  19. Commas
  20. The Apostrophe, Quotation Marks, and Titles
  21. Capitalization and Other Punctuation Marks
  22. Editing Paragraphs and Essays

PART 5: Reading Strategies and Selections

  1. Reading Strategies
  2. Reading Selections
  • Popular Culture and College Life
  • Psychology and Health Care
  • Our Environment and the Workplace
  • Spies and Hackers and The Legal World

APPENDICES

  1. Grammar Glossary
  2. Irregular Verbs
  3. A Quick Guide to Verb Tenses
  4. Combining Ideas in Sentences
  5. Punctuation and Mechanics
  6. Writing Paragraphs and Essays in Exams
  7. Spelling, Grammar, and Vocabulary Logs

Credits

Index

Inside Back Cover

Revising Checklist for a Paragraph

Revising Checklist for an Essay

Editing Checklist

Revising and Editing Symbols

Author bios

About our authors

Lynne Gaetz, a professor of English language and literature, has been teaching at the college level for over 20 years. She obtained a masters degree in English literature, as well as a TESL diploma and a college teaching diploma. In addition to the series, The Writer's World, she has written over 30 successful English second language textbooks for college-level students. Her most recent series, containing a separate skills and grammar component, is Avenues. In her spare time, she loves creating art; her preference is mixed media and oil painting. She is also an avid traveler, who intends to visit every continent.

Suneeti Phadke has a graduate degree in Russian language and literature, as well as a bachelor of education degree in teaching English as a second language. She has been teaching English language and literature to college students for more than 20 years. She started her writing career around the same time as her teaching career. Her first writing project was to develop correspondence courses for college-level English for the Quebec Ministry of Education. This experience led her to writing academic textbooks for Pearson. Currently, she is also trying her hand at other types of writing, such as short stories and poetry.

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