Includes an answer key.

"The Reason to Write series offer students strategies and practice in writing for academic success. Students are carefully guided through the stages of writing, from generating ideas, to drafting and revising, to proofreading and editing.

"The Advanced level helps students master the five-paragraph essay and elevate their skills to meet academic standards. Students explore and receive in-depth instruction on a variety of essay types while learning such skills as summary and response, proper citation of sources, use of quoted material, and synthesizing multiple sources.

Features: Theme-based units are grounded in academic content. Thought-provoking readings challenge students to think analytically. A thorough, systematic approach to writing eases the writing process. The wide choice of writing topics appeal to diverse student population. Step-by-step writing activities build toward a central structured writing task. Fully integrated grammar and vocabulary help students improve accuracy, gain fluency, and build confidence." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

UNIT 1 PANDORA'S BOX Writing a Summary and Response

Reading: "Human Cloning Debate: Why Do It? Who'd Be Hurt? Should It Be Legal?" (from The Chicago Tribune)

Writing practice: identifying arguments — summarizing — forming and expressing a point of view

Editing focus: paraphrasing — subject-verb agreement

UNIT 2 CHERRIES FOR MY GRANDMA Writing a Descriptive Essay

Reading: "Cherries for My Grandma" / Geoffrey Canada

Writing practice: analyzing essay organisation — writing detailed examples as support — using a summary as an introduction

Editing focus: adjective clauses — habitual past: would vs. used to

UNIT 3 THREE WORLDS IN ONE Writing a Classification Essay

Reading: "Some Reflections on the Technology of Eating" (from The New York Times)

Writing practice: determining an organizing principle for categorization — categorizing and avoiding overlapping — developing conclusions for classification essays

Editing focus: pronoun referents

UNIT 4 WHO'S SPYING ON US? Writing an Advantages and Disadvantages Essay

Reading: ''You've Got Inappropriate Mail'' (from The New York Times)

Writing practice: summarizing and incorporating academic research as support — responding to a quote — more on using a summary as an introduction — using the conclusion to unify an essay

Editing focus: bibliographies or ''Work Cited'' lists — citations for online references — citations within a text

UNIT 5 MIRROR, MIRROR, ON THE WALL Writing a Cause-and-Effect Essay

Reading: Excerpt from "The Face of Beauty" / Diane Ackerman

Writing practice: developing different types of support — writing up research studies — showing cause and effect — outlining an essay

Editing focus: adverbial clauses — causal connectors — reported speech

UNIT 6 TWO THEORIES OF PERSONALITY TYPES Writing a Comparison-and-Contrast Essay

Readings: ''Appearance and Personality: Sheldon's Theory of Body Type and Temperament" / James and Tyra Arraj
''A Holistic Approach to Personality Analysis: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator''

Writing practice: developing introductions — assessing the value of a theory

Editing focus: clauses for comparison, contrast, and concession — transitional expressions between sentences

UNIT 7 THE KITE RUNNER Writing a Literary Analysis Essay

Reading: Excerpt from "The Kite Runner" / Khaled Hosseini

Writing practice: analyzing mood — summarizing a story — understanding plot devices — writing about symbols — organizing an introduction for a literary and analysis essay — integrating quotes with texts — interpreting simile, metaphor, and personification

Editing focus: present and past unreal conditionals

UNIT 8 ETHICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Writing an Argumentative Essay

Reading: "Students Shall Not Download. Yeah, Sure.'' (from the New York Times)

Writing Practice: identifying arguments and counterarguments — refuting an argument — organizing an argumentative essay — synthesizing information to form arguments

Editing focus: unstated conditionals — noun clauses

SUPPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES

ANSWER KEY

This book is intended for advanced learners.