Overview

Together, Common Places content, the author-created teaching resources, and Connect Integrated Reading and Writing (a state-of-the-art learning technology product) represent a cohesive instructional framework to accelerate college readiness. With a seamlessly integrated foundation in reading and writing strategies, unique purpose-oriented projects for upper and lower level IRW courses, a fresh approach to grammar that emphasizes sentence combining and grammar in context, a step-by-step modeling approach guiding students to emulate the reading/writing cycle, and multiple features to promote metacognitive thinking, Common Places offers a flexible and adaptive approach suitable for any curriculum design or course sequence. Connect is sold separately and does not come automatically with the purchase of the textbook.

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Author:   Lisa Hoeffner ,  Kent Hoeffner
Publisher:   McGraw-Hill Education
Imprint:   McGraw-Hill Education
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 27.40cm
Weight:   1.198kg
ISBN:  

9781259192234

ISBN 10:   1259192237
Pages:   672
Publication Date:   16 October 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9781260092431
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
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Table of Contents

Brief Table of Contents Quick Start Guide to Integrated Reading and Writing Assignments PART ONE: Planning for Success Chapter 1Critical Thinking Skills and Success Strategies PART TWO: Reading and Writing as Integrated Processes Chapter 2Annotating Texts and Developing Vocabulary Chapter 3Previewing Texts and Working with Topics Chapter 4Main Ideas Chapter 5Support for Main Ideas Chapter 6Text Purposes and Text Patterns Chapter 7Organizing, Drafting, and Summarizing Chapter 8Titles, Introductions, and Conclusions Chapter 9Inferences and Tone Chapter 10Revising and Editing PART THREE: Integrated Reading and Writing Projects Chapter 11Project 1: Working with Informative Texts Subject: Social Media-For Better or Worse Chapter 12Project 2: Working with Analysis and Evaluation Texts Subject: Our Vulnerable Planet Chapter 13Project 3: Working with Argument Texts Subject: The Impact of Wal-Mart Avalable Only in Create Project 4: Reading and Writing Summaries Subject: Motivations and Mindsets Project 5: Reading and Writing to Solve Problems Subject: Problem-Solving Skills Project 6: Reading and Writing Persuasive Responses Subject: Prisoners and Education PART FOUR: Additional Skills Chapter 14Using Sources Avalable Only in Create Strategies for Reading and Writing Exams PART FIVE: Well-Crafted Sentences Unit 1 Sentence Combining: Building Blocks of Good Sentences Unit 2 Spelling and Word Choice Unit 3 Punctuation and Mechanics Avalable Only in Create Editing Practice PART SIX: Thematic Anthology of Readings Theme: Triumphing Over Adversity Theme: Self-Segregation Theme: Is Comedy Central? Theme: Planning for the Future Avalable Only in Create Theme: Television and Stereotypes Theme: The Rules of Attraction

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Lisa Hoeffner earned a Ph.D. in English with a specialization in rhetoric from the University of Houston. Since 1998, Dr. Hoeffner has served as both professor of English and professor of reading at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas. In addition to her teaching roles, Dr. Hoeffner focuses on curricular redesign in developmental education. She serves as grant director for a Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board grant awarded for work on improvement and innovation in developmental education. With the advent of integrated reading and writing in Texas, Dr. Hoeffner has provided leadership for colleges across the state that are creating integrated reading and writing (INRW) programs and has provided leadership to public school districts implementing INRW programs as college preparatory classes. Kent Hoeffner earned a B.A. from Texas A&M University in College Station; an M.Div. from Golden State Seminary in Mill Valley, California; and a Ph.D. from Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He has served at McLennan Community College since 2001, first as the division director for liberal arts and currently as a professor of philosophy. In 2007, Dr. Hoeffner developed McLennan's first online philosophy course, and since then has continued to develop and teach various online courses. Most recently, Dr. Hoeffner renewed his long-standing involvement in academic advising by joining a group of faculty in a grant-funded intensive advising program focused on improving the success of developmental students. He regularly mentors students who need help in the areas of successful academic behaviors, self-advocacy, and the development of college-level reading and writing skills.

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