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020 _a9780176721282 (Student Book)
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100 _aDynes, Rhonda
245 _aEssay Essentials with Readings (7th ed.) /
_cRhonda Dynes, Sarah Norton, and Brian Green.
250 _a7th ed.
260 _aToronto :
_bNelson Education Ltd,
_c2018.
300 _axii, 508 p. :
_bill. ;
_c26 cm.
500 _aFrom the summer of 2020, English as a Second Language titles from Nelson Education have been sold to the Top Hat publishing company.
504 _aIncludes appendices and index.
505 _a"Over six editions, Essay Essentials with Readings has developed a loyal following because of its reputation for being straightforward and practical, providing students with the guidance and support they need to develop their written communication skills. With a clean layout, clear explanations, and opportunities to practise, Essay Essentials helps students to be better writers in their post-secondary studies and equips them with the skills they need to be successful in their career. Available to be bundled with the textbook, our online MindTap digital platform provides additional practice activities that are not found in the text, for those who want to provide their students with even more review opportunities. With Essay Essentials and MindTap, you can provide your students with an engaging and interactive learning experience and support their development of critical lifelong skills.
505 _aNew to this edition:
_tA new part has been added: “Presenting Your Work” includes information about presentations, posters, and academic and workplace portfolios.
_tSix new published readings have been included.
_tFour student essays are included, providing students with a model of what they can create themselves.
_t25% of the exercises in the Workbook section are new to this edition.
_tChapter 1 has a new section, “The Academic Audience,” which addresses common expectations and writing guidelines in an academic setting.
_tChapter 2 has a new section, “Annotating Sources,” which introduces students to recording their understanding and interpretation of what they are reading.
_tIn Chapter 3 a new section provides an opportunity for students to practise writing a response to a reading. We include a new reading on child poverty and two sample student responses.
_tThe MLA documentation style, along with associated examples, has been updated." (xii, Preface)
505 _aCONTENTS:
505 _aPART 1. Understanding the Elements of Good Writing
505 _a1. Understanding the Audience, Understanding Yourself
_tAddressing Your Readers
_tReflecting Yourself
_tLevels of Standard English Writing
505 _a2. Understanding the Role of Reading as a Writing Component
_tStart with Good Reading Skills
_tSkimming
_tScanning
_tA Note on Speed reading and Increasing Your Reading Speed
_tAnnotating Sources
505 _a3. Understanding the Role of Critical Thinking
_tThe Interpretive Critical Thinking Model
_tCritical Thinking and Analysis Practice
505 _aPART 2. Beginning the Writing Process
505 _a4. Organizing Your Work and Preparing for Writing
_tThink about Your Subject
_tMake Your Subject Significant
_tMake Your Subject Single
_tMake Your Subject Specific
_tMake Your Subject Supportable
_tOrganizing Subject Ideas into Main Points
_tGenerating Main Points: Prewriting Techniques
_tAn Alternative Approach: Questioning Your Subject
_tTesting Your Main Points
505 _a5. Developing the Main Points and Writing the Thesis Statement
_tOrganizing Your Main Points
_tWriting the Thesis Statement
_tPhrasing Your Main Idea
_tPhrasing the Thesis Points
_tWriting a More Advanced Thesis Statement
_tPutting the Thesis Elsewhere in Your Paper
505 _a6. Writing an Outline
_tPreparing the Outline
_tOutline Format
505 _aPART 3. Drafting Your Work
505 _a7. Understanding the Paragraph
_tWhat Does a Paragraph Actually Look Like?
_tHow Does a Paragraph Function?
_tHow Long Should a Paragraph Be?
_tCrafting the Topic Sentence
_tDeveloping the Topic
_tHow Do You End a Paragraph?
505 _a8. Writing Introductions and Conclusions
_tThe Introductory Paragraph
_tGetting and Holding Your Readers' Attention
_tThe Concluding Paragraph
505 _a9. Summarizing
_tHow to Write a Summary
505 _aPART 4. Academic and Workplace Writing Styles
505 _a10. Academic and Workplace Writing
_tFour Ideas to Consider as You Develop Your Writing
_tChoosing an Overall Writing Strategy
_tDifferences between Workplace and Academic Writing
505 _a11. Analytical Writing: Process Analysis, Causal Analysis, and Classification and Division
_tAnalytical Writing
_tProcess Analysis
_tCausal Analysis
_tClassification and Division
505 _a12. Persuasive Writing: Description, Example, and Comparison and Contrast
_tDescription
_tExample
_tPutting Description and Example to Use
_tComparison and Contrast
505 _a13. Argumentation
_tChoose Your Issue Carefully
_tConsider Your Audience
_tIdentify Your Purpose
_tOrganize Your Ideas
_tTips for Writing Argumentation
505 _a14. Writing in the Workplace: Memos, Letters, and Short Reports
_tMemos
_tLetters
_tShort Reports
505 _aPart 5. Writing Research Papers
505 _a15. Preparing for Research and Choosing a Research Method
_tTips for Writing a Research Paper
_tWays of Doing Research
505 _a16. Formatting a Research Paper
_tTaking Good Research Notes for Informative Writing
_tBasic Formatting Guidelines
_tFormatting an MLA-Style Research Paper
_tFormatting an APA-Style Research Paper
_tResearch Paper Tips: Projecting an Image
505 _a17. Documenting Your Sources
_tIntroduction: The Two-Part Principle of Documentation
_tThe MLA Style
_tThe APA Style
505 _aPart 6. Understanding the Revision Process
505 _a18. Choosing the Right Words
_tThe Writer's Toolkit
_tThe Seven Deadly Errors of Writing
505 _a19. Rewriting Your Work
_tThe Three Steps of Revision
_tStep 1: Rewriting
505 _a20. Editing and Proofreading Your Work
_tStep 2: Editing
_tStep 3: Proofreading
_tWorking with Rubrics
505 _aPart 7. Presenting Your Work
505 _a21. Academic Presentations
_tAcademic Presentations
505 _a22. Academic and Workplace Posters and Portfolios
_tPosters
_tAcademic Portfolios
505 _aPart 8. Readings
_tJosh Dehaas "The College Advantage"
_tScott Barry Kaufman "The Creative Gifts of ADHD"
_tSenator Grant Mitchell "It's Time to Enshrine the Rights and Protections of Transgender Canadians"
_tSara R. Howerth "The Gas-Electric Hybrid Demystified"
_tRebecca Boyle "Why Mars Is the Best Planet"
_tDeenu Parmar, "Labouring the Walmart Way"
_tGabor Maté, "Embraced by the Needle"
_tRubi Garyfalakis, "No Sweat?"
_tTrevor Jang "How Reporting on Indigenous Issues as an Indigenous Journalist Can Get Complicated"
_tMaria Amuchastegui, "Farming It Out"
_tNancy Macdonald "A Deafening Silence on Aboriginal Issues"
_tSam McNerney, "Is Creativity Sexy? The Evolutionary Advantages of Artistic Thinking"
_tNavneet Alang, "Online Freedom Will Depend on Deeper Forms of Web Literacy"
_tLeah Brown "Using Technology to Fight Depression"
_tB. Ferguson "No More Classes, No More Books: Online vs. Traditional Schooling"
_tSyneba Mitchell "Mislabelled by Society"
_tEmily Silbert "Dancing with Language: Don Quijote's Words and Consensual Reality"
505 _aPART 9. WORKBOOK
505 _a23. A Review of the Basics
_tHow to Use This Workbook
_tCracking the Sentence Code
_tSolving Sentence-Fragment Problems
_tSolving Run-On Problems
_tSolving Modifier Problems
_tThe Parallelism Principle
_tRefining by Combining
505 _a24. Grammar
_tMastering Subject-Verb Agreement
_tUsing Verbs Effectively
_tSolving Pronoun Problems
505 _a25. Punctuation
_tThe Comma
_tThe Semicolon
_tThe Colon
_tQuotation Marks
_tThe Question Mark
_tThe Exclamation Mark
_tDashes and Parentheses
505 _a26. Spelling
_tHazardous Homonyms
_tThe Apostrophe
_tThe Hyphen
_tCapital Letters
_tNumbers
505 _aAppendix A. List of Terms: A Vocabulary of Writing
505 _aAppendix B. Answers for Selected Exercises
505 _aIndex
650 _aEssay
_xAuthorship
_vTextbooks.
650 _aReport writing
_vTextbooks.
650 _aEnglish language
_xRhetoric
_vTextbooks.
650 _aCollege readers.
658 _aESL2361
700 _aNorton, Sarah
700 _aGreen, Brian
856 _uhttps://tophat.com/catalog/arts-&-humanities/languages/full-course/essay-essentials-with-readings-7th-edition/4230/
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