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Overview"Whether you teach a traditional or accelerated developmental writing course Sparks: A Reader to Energize Writing offers a blend of reading strategies, essays, punctuation exercises, basic research documentation, and rhetorical modes all in one text and written in a tone that speaks directly to students. Each essay is accompanied by cultural and historical references as part of the pre-reading strategy, vocabulary and usage, discussion questions for critical thinking and discussion, style analysis and practice, group activities designed to complement writing assignments, writing ideas, and essay connections. How to craft a thesis statement, work in groups, evaluate a peer s writing, reduce wordiness, correct shifts in tense, survive in college, and more provide students with numerous tools to improve writing, reading, and thinking skills. Sparks throws out the traditional workbook-style bulky text for a less cumbersome, more college-level looking text while retaining the necessary practice exercises, though using them as a way to approach style and sentence variety rather than as simple grammar drills. The apparatus focuses on encouraging students to think about how writers write. The essays range from brief one or two pages to lengthy nine or ten. All contain a complex element to encourage critical thinking, helping students move to the college level reading and analysis they need to succeed. Topics range from nature, science, and art, to technology, social issues, and cultural analysis. From the humor of David Sedaris to the warnings of Mark Bauerlein, the essays provide a wide range of styles and tones to fit most any instructional method. """ Full Product DetailsAuthor: Donna BarnardPublisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. Imprint: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. Edition: 4th Revised edition Weight: 0.617kg ISBN: 9781524931353ISBN 10: 1524931357 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 30 November 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |