Overview

"""Writing Workshop: Promoting College Success"" is a fully integrated reading and writing program that reviews and consolidates the critical literacy skills that ESL and developmental learners will need as they transition to mainstream academic classes. By providing students with real texts, real assignments, and samples of real student responses to assignments from real teachers, writing workshop helps students write, read, and discuss their way to college success."

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Author:   Linda Lonon Blanton ,  Linda P. Blanton ,  Linda Lee
Publisher:   Cengage Learning, Inc
Imprint:   Heinle
Dimensions:   Width: 20.10cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 25.10cm
Weight:   0.341kg
ISBN:  

9780838479735

ISBN 10:   0838479731
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   30 December 1997
Audience:   ELT/ESL ,  ELT General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Guide to Strategies. Preface. Tips for Teachers. WORKSHOP ONE: INTERPRETING A TEXT. Reading Selection: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (a movie review). Night (a short story by Bret Lott). Strategies: Interpreting. Analyzing. Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Using Context. Quickwriting. Organizing Ideas. Evaluating. Revising. Grammar Workshop 1: a) adjective clauses b) appositives. WORKSHOP TWO: SUMMARIZING NONFICTION. Reading Selection: Friends, Good Friends--And Such Good Friends (an essay by Judith Viorst). Strategies: Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Using Context. Making Your Thesis Clear. Analyzing. Summarizing. Evaluating. Revising. Grammar Workshop 2: 1) noun clauses with that b) reported speech. WORKSHOP THREE: WRITING IN RESPONSE TO READING. Reading Selection: Sample essay responses. Strategies: Paraphrasing. Analyzing. Comparing. Writing Margin Notes. Evaluating. Quickwriting. Making Your Thesis Clear. Organizing Ideas. Evaluating. Revising. Grammar Workshop 3: 1) it's + adjective + infinitive b) gerunds as subjects. WORKSHOP FOUR: INCORPORATING OTHER' IDEAS INTO YOUR WRITING. Reading Selection: Seven Keys to Learning (a magazine article). Strategies: Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Using Context. Analyzing. Using Quotations. Citing Sources. Paraphrasing. Synthesizing. Revising. Grammar Workshop 4: 1) adverb clauses b) reduced adverb clauses. WORKSHOP FIVE: USING WRITING TO UNDERSTAND A TEXT. Reading Selection: Stimulating Beverages (a science textbook excerpt). Strategies: Previewing. Analyzing. Identifying the Writer's Thesis. Using Context. Writing Margin Notes. Underlining. Quickwriting. Revising. Grammar Workshop 5: a) word forms b) rearranging information c) sentence beginnings. WORKSHOP SIX: RESPONDING TO EXAM QUESTIONS. Reading Selection: Sample exam responses. Strategies: Analyzing. Evaluating. Synthesizing. Organizing Ideas. Grammar Workshop 6: a) parallel forms b) conjunctive adverbs. WORKSHOP SEVEN: REPORTING ON RESEARCH. Reading Selection: Working with Gilly (an academic report). Strategies: Applying What You Know. Classifying. Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Taking Notes. Analyzing. Revising. Grammar Workshop 7: sentence variety. WORKSHOP EIGHT: PASSING A WRITING TEST. Reading Selection: Sample writing test responses. Strategies: Analyzing. Making Your Thesis Clear. Appendix: Reference Guide. Answers: Grammar Workshops. Credits.

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Guide to Strategies. Preface. Tips for Teachers. WORKSHOP ONE: INTERPRETING A TEXT. Reading Selection: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (a movie review). Night (a short story by Bret Lott). Strategies: Interpreting. Analyzing. Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Using Context. Quickwriting. Organizing Ideas. Evaluating. Revising. Grammar Workshop 1: a) adjective clauses b) appositives. WORKSHOP TWO: SUMMARIZING NONFICTION. Reading Selection: Friends, Good Friends--And Such Good Friends (an essay by Judith Viorst). Strategies: Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Using Context. Making Your Thesis Clear. Analyzing. Summarizing. Evaluating. Revising. Grammar Workshop 2: 1) noun clauses with that b) reported speech. WORKSHOP THREE: WRITING IN RESPONSE TO READING. Reading Selection: Sample essay responses. Strategies: Paraphrasing. Analyzing. Comparing. Writing Margin Notes. Evaluating. Quickwriting. Making Your Thesis Clear. Organizing Ideas. Evaluating. Revising. Grammar Workshop 3: 1) it's + adjective + infinitive b) gerunds as subjects. WORKSHOP FOUR: INCORPORATING OTHER' IDEAS INTO YOUR WRITING. Reading Selection: Seven Keys to Learning (a magazine article). Strategies: Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Using Context. Analyzing. Using Quotations. Citing Sources. Paraphrasing. Synthesizing. Revising. Grammar Workshop 4: 1) adverb clauses b) reduced adverb clauses. WORKSHOP FIVE: USING WRITING TO UNDERSTAND A TEXT. Reading Selection: Stimulating Beverages (a science textbook excerpt). Strategies: Previewing. Analyzing. Identifying the Writer's Thesis. Using Context. Writing Margin Notes. Underlining. Quickwriting. Revising. Grammar Workshop 5: a) word forms b) rearranging information c) sentence beginnings. WORKSHOP SIX: RESPONDING TO EXAM QUESTIONS. Reading Selection: Sample exam responses. Strategies: Analyzing. Evaluating. Synthesizing. Organizing Ideas. Grammar Workshop 6: a) parallel forms b) conjunctive adverbs. WORKSHOP SEVEN: REPORTING ON RESEARCH. Reading Selection: Working with Gilly (an academic report). Strategies: Applying What You Know. Classifying. Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Taking Notes. Analyzing. Revising. Grammar Workshop 7: sentence variety. WORKSHOP EIGHT: PASSING A WRITING TEST. Reading Selection: Sample writing test responses. Strategies: Analyzing. Making Your Thesis Clear. Appendix: Reference Guide. Answers: Grammar Workshops. Credits.

"Guide to Strategies. Preface. Tips for Teachers. WORKSHOP ONE: INTERPRETING A TEXT. Reading Selection: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (a movie review). Night (a short story by Bret Lott). Strategies: Interpreting. Analyzing. Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Using Context. Quickwriting. Organizing Ideas. Evaluating. Revising. Grammar Workshop 1: a) adjective clauses b) appositives. WORKSHOP TWO: SUMMARIZING NONFICTION. Reading Selection: Friends, Good Friends--And Such Good Friends (an essay by Judith Viorst). Strategies: Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Using Context. Making Your Thesis Clear. Analyzing. Summarizing. Evaluating. Revising. Grammar Workshop 2: 1) noun clauses with ""that"" b) reported speech. WORKSHOP THREE: WRITING IN RESPONSE TO READING. Reading Selection: Sample essay responses. Strategies: Paraphrasing. Analyzing. Comparing. Writing Margin Notes. Evaluating. Quickwriting. Making Your Thesis Clear. Organizing Ideas. Evaluating. Revising. Grammar Workshop 3: 1) it's + adjective + infinitive b) gerunds as subjects. WORKSHOP FOUR: INCORPORATING OTHER' IDEAS INTO YOUR WRITING. Reading Selection: Seven Keys to Learning (a magazine article). Strategies: Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Using Context. Analyzing. Using Quotations. Citing Sources. Paraphrasing. Synthesizing. Revising. Grammar Workshop 4: 1) adverb clauses b) reduced adverb clauses. WORKSHOP FIVE: USING WRITING TO UNDERSTAND A TEXT. Reading Selection: Stimulating Beverages (a science textbook excerpt). Strategies: Previewing. Analyzing. Identifying the Writer's Thesis. Using Context. Writing Margin Notes. Underlining. Quickwriting. Revising. Grammar Workshop 5: a) word forms b) rearranging information c) sentence beginnings. WORKSHOP SIX: RESPONDING TO EXAM QUESTIONS. Reading Selection: Sample exam responses. Strategies: Analyzing. Evaluating. Synthesizing. Organizing Ideas. Grammar Workshop 6: a) parallel forms b) conjunctive adverbs. WORKSHOP SEVEN: REPORTING ON RESEARCH. Reading Selection: Working with Gilly (an academic report). Strategies: Applying What You Know. Classifying. Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Taking Notes. Analyzing. Revising. Grammar Workshop 7: sentence variety. WORKSHOP EIGHT: PASSING A WRITING TEST. Reading Selection: Sample writing test responses. Strategies: Analyzing. Making Your Thesis Clear. Appendix: Reference Guide. Answers: Grammar Workshops. Credits."

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