TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dasgupta,Geri
AU  - Waldman,Nell Kozak
ED  - Centennial College
ED  - Centennial College
TI  - Reading Writing Basics: Sentence Strategies for Canadian Students 
SN  - 9780176167165 (Book)
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Scarborough, Ont.
PB  - Nelson Thomson Learning
KW  - Reading
KW  - English language
KW  - Sentences
KW  - Grammar
N1  - Includes index; ''Understanding the basic structures of writing is the key to writing well. Continuing the tradition of the Reading Writing series, Reading Writing Basics focuses on the relationship between reading and writing while developing essential sentence-level skills. Using a progressive structure, the text builds upon the skills learned in each unit, beginning with the basics of sentence writing and ending with the fundamentals of writing paragraphs. Reading Writing Basics features numerous engaging readings at the paragraph level that teach specific skills within context, and contains a multitude of directed, task-oriented exercises that reinforce the skills taught throughout the text; Features; Engaging readings on such topics as the language of the Internet, whale watching, Terry Fox, Wayne Gretzky, and body language in different cultures; Appendixes covering Parts of Speech, Irregular Verbs, and Dictionary Skills; An Answer Key to all exercises in the text; Coverage of summary skills, topics sentences, and paragraph writing; A section on spelling and deadly sound-alike words; A variety of exercises that reinforce skills: proofreading short paragraphs, cloze exercises, sentence-writing practices, and full paragraph and summary writing exercises. '' (Book Cover); CONTENTS; Preface; Unit 1: Getting It on Paper; How We Write English; Capitalization; Punctuating the End of a Sentence; The Period; The Question Mark; The Exclamation Mark; Spelling: Three Strategies for Improvement; Strategy 1: Sort Out the Deadly Sound-Alike Words; Strategy 2: Outsmart the Spell Checker; Strategy 3: Learn to Spell Contractions; Reading 1: ''r u lol @ my convo?''; How Your Finished Document Should Look; Reading Writing: More Practice; Reading 2: ''When Was Language Invented?''; Reading 3: ''Our Most Remarkable Invention: Writing''; Reading 4: ''Growth of a Global Language''; Skimming, Active Reading, and Scanning; Writing Suggestions; Unit 2: Recognizing and Writing Sentences; What Is a Sentence?; Reading 1: ''The World's Ocean''; The Subject; The Verb; Other Things You Need to Know about Sentences; Reading 2: ''Sea Questions''; The Prepositional Phrase; Clauses: Dependent vs. Independent; Multiple Subjects and Verbs; Unusual Word Order: Questions and Here/There; Reading 2: ''Sea Questions''; Reading Writing: More Practice; Reading 3: ''Sea Turtles''; Reading 4: ''The Titanic''; Reading 5: ''Tsunami Waves''; What We Do When We Read; Reading 6: ''An Ocean Vacation''; Writing Suggestions; Unit 3: Working with Nouns and Pronouns; Reading 1: ''The Importances of Names''; Nouns; Plurals-More than One -- Irregular Plurals -- Exceptions to Exceptions; Subject-Verb Agreement -- Complete / Simple Subject Review; Nouns that End with ing; Using Commas to Separate Words in a List or Series; Showing Possession; Pronouns; Reflexive Pronouns; Using Subject/Nonsubject Pronouns; Subject-Verb Agreement; Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement; Pronoun Consistency; Possessive Pronounce -- Who and Whose; Indefinite Pronouns; Reading Writing: More Practice; Reading 2: ''A Nobel Prize Winner''; Reading 3: ''The Great  One''; Rewording; Reading 4: ''Anansi and Common Sense''; Reading 5: ''Terry Fox''; Writing Suggestions; Unit 4: Using Verbs; Reading 1: ''Sharing a Language''; Recognizing Verb Tense; The Infinitive; Be, Have, Do; Making Verbs Negative; Using Negative Words -- The Double Negative; Negative Prefixes; Simple Verb Tenses; The Present Tense; The Past Tense; The Future Tense; Participle Tenses; Be + -ing Verbs; Have + Past Participle; Consistency of Verb Tenses; The Passive Voice; Forming the Passive Voice; Reading Writing: More Practice; Reading 2: ''Food for Thought''; Answering Questions; Reading 3: ''Moving Meaning''; Reading 4: ''How the Buffalo Was Saved''; Writing Suggestions; Unit 5: Combining Sentences; Combining Sentences; Reading 1: ''Swimming the Lake''; Coordinating Conjunctions; Punctuating to Coordinate: The Semicolon; Coordinating with a Semicolon and Transition Words; Subordinating Conjunctions; Punctuating to Subordinate: The Comma; Reading Writing: More Practice; Reading 2: ''Why Canadian Football Is Better Than American Football?''; Reading 3: ''Golf vs. Tennis''; Reading 4: ''Canadian Becomes World's Fastest Human''; Writing Suggestions; Unit 6: Composing Paragraphs; What Is a Paragraph?; The Topic Sentence; Finding the Focus; Locating a Topic Sentence; Writing a Topic Sentence; Gathering Supporting Details; Brainstorming; Questioning; Discussing; Sorting Supporting Details; What You Write; Why You Write; How You Write; Finishing Your Paragraph; Editing and Proofreading Your Paragraph; Writing More than  One Paragraph; Writing a Summary; The Single-Sentence Summary; The Selective Summary; The Point-by-Point Summary; Reading Writing: More Practice; Reading 1: ''Superstitions''; Reading 2: ''The Old Man and His Grandson''; Reading 3: ''What Is It about Sharks?''; Appendix A: Parts of Speech; Adjective; Adverb; Conjunction; Interjection; Noun; Preposition; Verb; Appendix B: Irregular Verbs and Their Parts; Appendix C: The Dictionary; Choosing a Dictionary; Using a Dictionary; Appendix D: Answer Key; Unit 1; Unit 2; Unit 3; Unit 4; Unit 5; Unit 6; Index
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