Includes index.

PART I WRITING PARAGRAPHS AND ESSAYS

Chapter 1 Role Models: Writing an Expository Paragraph
This chapter focuses on role models and why they are important to us. Students will review paragraph structure as they write about their own role models or those of a particular social group. In the chapter-opening reading, a second-generation Filipina-American reveals the importance of role models to minority youth.
READING FOR WRITING: Before You Read -- Reading: "Kapwa- Our Shared Identity - and the Influence of Role Models" by Nene Judy Patacsil -- Understanding the Reading -- Vocabulary Expansion -- Dictionary use and word families -- Exercise 1 WRITING: Assignment: Write a paragraph about a role model or role models, focusing on two or three characteristics. -- What Expository Writing Is and Why an Expository Paragraph Has Three Levels -- Exercise 2 -- The Writing Process -- Making an Outline -- Exercise 3 & 4 -- Prewriting -- Miguel's Steps -- Miguel's First Draft -- Exercise 5 -- Miguel's Final Draft -- Exercise 6 -- Paragraph Form -- Exercise 7 REVISING: Composition Focus -- The Controlling Idea of the Topic Sentence and the Major Supporting Points -- Exercise 8 & 9 -- Background Information -- Exercise 10 & 11 -- The Third Level : Specificity -- Exercise 13 -- Transitions -- Exercise 14 & 15 -- Concluding Sentences -- Exercise 16 & 17 -- Language Focus -- Sentence Combining -- Exercise 18, 19 & 20 FINAL DRAFT -- Chapter Review

Chapter 2 Culture, Identity, and Homeland: Writing a Division Paragraph and Essay
This chapter focuses on culture and ethnic identity. Students will use logical division to write an expository paragraph about their ethnic identity, their country, a celebration, or a person's life, and then they will learn how to expand that paragraph to an essay. In the chapter-opening reading, a native of New Orleans describes several parts of his unique ethnic identity.
READING FOR WRITING: Before You Read -- Reading: "To Be American, Black, Catholic, and Creole" by Alfred J. Guillaume, Jr. -- Understanding the Reading -- Vocabulary Expansion -- Vocabulary for Analyzing Cultures -- Exercise 1
WRITING: Assignment: Analyze an aspect of a culture by logical division -- Write a first draft paragraph, and then expand your paragraph to an essay. -- What Logical Division Is and Why It Is Important -- Logical Division -- Finding a basis of division -- Exercise 2 -- The Writing Process -- Select a Topic -- Topic Sentence -- Dion's Step -- Dion's First Draft -- Exercise 3
REVISING: Composition Focus -- Expanding a paragraph to an essay -- Outlining and Expansion -- Exercise 4 -- From Topic Sentence to Thesis Statement: Adding Supporting Points -- Vocabulary for Logical Division -- Exercise 5 -- Parallel Structure in Thesis Statements -- Exercise 6 -- Linking the Thesis Statement to the Body Paragraphs: Cohesion -- Exercise 7 -- Using Background Information to Write an Essay Introduction -- Exercise 8 -- Development of Body Paragraphs -- Exercise 9 -- Language Focus -- Expanding the Noun Phrase -- Exercise 10 & 11 -- Adjective Clauses -- Exercise 12 & 13 FINAL DRAFT -- Chapter Review

Chapter 3 Full Pockets, Empty Pockets: Writing a cause-and-effect essay
This chapter focuses on various aspects of globalization- from economic disparity to cultural exchange and migration. Students will write essays that explain either the reasons for or the effects of an economic situation. The chapter-opening reading is a textbook excerpt that explains global inequality.
READING FOR WRITING: Before You Read -- Reading: "Global Economic Disparity" by Bruce Clark and John Wallace -- Understanding the Reading -- Vocabulary Expansion -- Adjectives Used as Nouns -- Exercise 1 -- Verbs Used as Adjectives -- Exercises 2 & 3 WRITING: Assignment: Write a cause-and-effect essay about the economic conditions in your country or about your personal career choice -- What cause and effect is and why it is important organizing a cause-and-effect essay: time order and order of importance -- Exercise 4 -- The Writing Process -- Chong Ho's Steps -- Chong Ho's Final Draft -- Exercise 5
REVISING: Composition Focus -- Essay Introductions -- Strategies for writing an introduction to a formal essay -- Exercise 6, 7 & 8 -- Organization of Body Paragraphs and Transition Signals -- Exercise 9 -- Development of Body Paragraphs -- Exercise 10 -- Unity in Body Paragraphs -- Exercise 11 -- Essay Conclusions -- Strategies for Writing a Conclusion to a Formal Essay -- Exercise 12 -- Language Focus -- Verb Tense in Essays -- Exercise 13 -- The Vocabulary of cause and effect: Nouns and Verbs -- Exercise 14 -- Cause-and-effect Vocabulary: Conjunctions and Transition Words -- Exercise 15 -- Overview of cause-and-effect vocabulary and structures -- Exercise 16
FINAL DRAFT -- Chapter Review

Chapter 4 Marriage and Family: Writing a comparison/contrast Essay
This chapter looks at family structure and how it is changing around the world. Students will work on comparison/contrast essays on topics such as married life and single life, the lives of men and women, and changes in courtship and marriage across generations. In the chapter-opening reading, a former member of the Japanese Prime Minister's Gender Equality Council explains how the lives of Japanese women and their families have changed over the past seventy-five years.
READING FOR WRITING: Before You Read -- Reading: "Lifestyle Changes in Japan" by Sumiko Iwao -- Understanding the Reading -- Vocabulary Expansion -- Word Families -- Exercises 1&2
WRITING: Assignment: Write an essay comparing lifestyles, gender roles, or generations -- What comparison/contrast is and why it is important organizing a comparison/contrast essay -- Combining Similarities and differences in the comparison/contrast essay -- The Writing Process -- Marie's Steps -- Marie's Final Draft --- Exercise 3
REVISING: Composition Focus -- The Introduction of the Comparison/Contrast Essay -- Exercise 4 -- The Controlling Idea in Thesis Statements -- Exercise 5 -- Balanced Development in the Comparison/Contrast Essay -- Exercise 6 -- More about Cohesion -- Cohesion Between the Thesis Statement and the Topic Sentences of the Body Paragraphs -- Exercise 7 -- Cohesion within Body Paragraph -- Exercise 8 -- Consistent Point of View -- Exercise 9 -- The Conclusion of the Comparison/Contrast Essay -- Exercise 10 -- Language Focus -- The Vocabulary of Comparison and Contrast -- Exercise 11, 12 & 13
FINAL DRAFT -- Chapter Review

Chapter 5 From School to Work: Writing an Argumentative Essay
This chapter focuses on young people's transition from school to work and the role of education. Students will write an argumentative essay on a topic such as the cost of a college education, the teaching of ethics in schools, and the need to eliminate discrimination in the educational environment. The chapter-opening reading present opposing views on the policy debate about whether high schools should encourage all students to plan for college.
READING FOR WRITING: Before You Read -- Reading: "Should the Purpose of a High School Education Be to Send All Student to College? - Yes/No" -- Understanding the Readings -- Vocabulary Expansion -- Brief Definitions -- Exercise 1 & 2 -- Longer Definitions -- Exercise 3 & 4
WRITING: Assignment: Write an argumentative essay on an issue in education -- What argumentation is and why it is important -- The Writing Process -- Become Familiar with your topic -- Exercise 5 -- Analyze your topic -- Exercise 6 -- Limit Your Topic -- Exercise 7 -- Draft a thesis Statement -- Exercise 8 -- Alina's Steps -- Alina's Final Draft -- Exercise 9
REVISING: Composition Focus -- Introduction Strategies for Argumentative Essays -- Exercise 10 -- Support: Organizing and Developing Body Paragraphs -- Exercise 11 -- Opposing Points of View -- Exercise 12 & 13 -- Conclusion -- Exercise 14 & 15 -- Language Focus -- Modal Verbs -- Exercise 16 -- Conditional Statements -- Exercise 17 -- Qualifiers -- Exercise 18
FINAL DRAFT -- Chapter Review

PART II ACADEMIC WRITING SKILLS: QUOTING, PARAPHRASING, CITING SOURCES, AND SUMMARIZING
Quoting -- Ellipsis and Brackets -- Exercise 1 -- Quotations within Quotations -- Exercise 2 -- Responding to a Quotation -- Exercise 3 & 4 -- Paraphrasing -- Exercise 5 -- Paraphrasing Strategies -- Exercise 6, 7, 8 & 9 -- Combining Paraphrases and Quotations -- Exercise 10 -- Integrating Source Material in Body Paragraphs -- Exercise 11 -- Citing Sources -- In-Text Citations -- End-of-Text Citations -- Exercise 12 -- Reporting Verbs -- Summarizing -- Exercise 13

APPENDICES

APPENDIX 1A: GRAMMAR
1. Adjective Clauses -- 1a. Position of Adjective Clauses -- 1b. Use of Commas with Adjective Clauses -- 1c. Common Errors in Adjective Clauses -- 1d. Reducing Adjective Clauses to Adjective Phrases -- 2. Adjectives and Noun Modifiers -- 2a. Participial Adjectives -- 3. Adverb Clauses -- 3a. Adverb Clauses and Verb Tense -- 3b. Reducing Adverb Clauses -- 3b.1. Reducing Time Clauses -- 3b.2. Reducing Reason Clauses -- 3c. Conditional Sentences -- 4. Adverbs -- 4a. Adverb Placement -- 4b. Subject-Verb Inversion Following Certain Adverbs at the Beginning of a Sentence -- 5. Articles -- 5a. Definite Nouns -- 5b. General Statements -- 5c. Expressions of Quantity -- 5d. Special Uses of the and Ø -- 6. Comparatives and Superlatives -- 6a. Modifying Comparative Statements -- 6b. Ellipsis in Comparative Statements -- 7. Coordination -- 7a. Coordinating Conjunctions -- 7b. Parallel Structure -- 7c. Correlative Conjunctions -- 8. Ellipsis -- 9. Gerunds and Infinitives -- 9a. Gerunds and Infinitives after Verbs -- 9b. Expanding a Gerund or Infinitive Phrase -- 9c. Gerund and Infinitive Forms: Active, Passive, Simple, and Past -- 10. Noun Clauses -- 10a. Reported Speech -- 11. Nouns -- 11a. Irregular Nouns -- 11b. Countable and Uncountable Nouns -- 11b.1 Expressions of Quantity with Countable and Uncountable Nouns -- 12. Prepositions -- 13. Pronouns -- 13a. Pronoun Agreement -- 13b. Pronoun Reference -- 13c. Pronouns That Play Special Roles in Cohesion -- 13c.1. One, Another, the Other -- 13c.2. This, That, These, Those -- 14. Sentences -- 14a. Parts of Speech -- 14b. Sentence Parts -- 14c. Phrase or Clause -- 14d. Sentence Types -- 14e. Logical Connectors -- 14f. Subject-Verb Agreement -- 14g. Sentence Problems -- 15. Verbs -- 15a. Verb Tenses -- 15b. Model Verbs -- 15c. Verb Form Problems -- 15d. Phrasal Verbs and Particles -- 16. Word Choice -- 17. Word Families -- 17a. Prefixes -- 17b. Suffixes

APPENDIX 1B: PUNCTUATION AND CAPITALIZATION
1. Apostrophe -- 1a. Possessives -- 1b. Contractions -- 2. Capital Letters -- 3. Colon -- 4. Comma -- 5. Dash -- 6. Parentheses -- 7. Period -- 8. Quotation marks -- 8a. Direct Speech -- 8b. Quotation Marks that Signal Special Uses of Words -- 8c. Quotation Marks in Titles -- 9. Semicolon

APPENDIX II: PEER REVIEW FORMS

INDEX

"Engaging Writing, a newly expanded two-level series, gives students the concepts and skills they need for success in academic writing. Engaging Writing provides clear, step-by-step instruction in the writing process, focusing first on paragraphs (Engaging Writing 1) and progressing to essays (Engaging Writing 2). Engaging Writing fully supports the needs of intermediate to advanced ESL learners. Features of the new edition of Engaging Writing 2: Introductory readings establish chapter themes and provide context for vocabulary exercises. Case studies of student writing provide realistic models of the writing process. Part I contains thematically-oriented, process-based writing instruction updated with fresh models and exercises. Chapter 1 reviews paragraph writing and Chapters 2-5 guide students in writing essays using various rhetorical modes. Part II highlights the issue of academic honesty and shows students how to quote, paraphrase, summarize, cite, and incorporate source material. Appendices provide comprehensive grammar and mechanics review for reference and practice. Together, Engaging Writing 1 and 2 feature a solid pedagogical core, using clearly presented and logically sequenced rhetorical, grammatical, and lexical teaching points supported by high-interest activities." (Book Cover)