Grassroots with Readings: The Writer S Workbook

by Susan E. Fawcett

Book Overview

Motivating students with high-interest content and guiding them with a clear, functional approach, Susan Fawcett's Grassroots inspires students to succeed. With its excellent writing instruction,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618955216
• ISBN13: 9780618955213
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.7" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Solid Writing Textbook

GRASSROOTS is a textbook on writing. It's written in a very easy-to-read style with some very good exercises and serves as a good tool to use when helping people improve their writing skills. I used some of the exercises from the book for my senior high school English classes. The book is broken into nine sections: writing forceful paragraphs; writing complete sentences; using verbs effectively; joining ideas together; choosing the right noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, or preposition; revising for consistency and parallelism; mastering mechanics; improving your spelling; and reading selections and quotation bank. Writing is a process, but one that is not easy to define. This is something that many students have difficulty understanding. However, there are similar parts of the process that most writers seem to share and GRASSROOTS does an excellent job of explaining that, starting with explaining what the purpose or writing is and why we write. GRASSROOTS is an excellent, straight-forward textbook about writing.