Improve Your Essays

By Doug Emory

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070215944
• ISBN13: 9780070215948
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.2"

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Improve Your Essays

"Improve Your Essays",by Doug Emory, is one of a four part series of texts dealing with: 1) "Improve Your Reading and Study skills", 2) "Improving Your Sentences", 3) "Improving Your Paragraphs", and 4) "Improve Your Essays". Teachers or students who like what they see in "Improving Your Essays" may want to investigate some of these other resources. "Improving Your Essays" is a college textbook with 466 pages, another 148 pages of Appendix material, and an index. Readers will find the the 14 chapters divided into four sections. Chapters 1-3 deal with the writing process. Chapters 4-5 cover the elements of essays, which introduces the five key elements of writing- purpose, content, structure, audience, and tone. Chapters 6-7 look in more detail at the two most common purposes of writing: writing to describe, and to narrate. Chapters 8-14 cover writing to inform and persuade, with each chapter examining a strategy for developing essay contents: using examples, cause and effect, comparison/ contrasts, etc. The text's chapters incorporate journal writing activities, group activities, questions, examples from published sources, and several other features to help students. I think that despite the text being a bit dated, it's a wonderful reference.