Ready to Write More: From Paragraph to Essay

by Karen Lourie Blanchard and Christine Baker Root

This text presents paragraph development and essay skills in clear, teachable steps and develops the writing skills needed for successful academic work. The book provides extensive practice in all... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201878070
• ISBN13: 9780201878073
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.6" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book for teaching writing to ESL students

I used this book to teach writing to high school ESL (English as a Second Language) students. After 10 years of searching, this is the best book I have found to prepare the students for entering mainstream classes where they have to know how to organize their written work well. This textbook contains excellent models to study and analyze before the students begin writing. It teaches students how to write good topic sentences and supporting details, use transitions, and form clear introductory and concluding paragraphs. It also models and teaches different types of writing forms such as classification, cause and effect, comparison/contrast, problem/solution, summaries, personal expression, and college application essays. Finally, it extensively covers the writing process of pre-writing, drafting, revising, and editing. Hooray for this book!!!!