Writing for Life de D. J. Henry

Writing for Life: Paragraphs and Essays

D. J. Henry

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 ian 2013

The revolutionary approach of D.J. Henry's "Writing for Life" offers a visually rich, high-interest, and down-to-earth approach that reinforces the writing process while showing students how to take responsibility for their learning.

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D. J. Henry is a veteran teacher with over 25 years of community college classroom experience and an acclaimed textbook author. During the course of her teaching career, D.J. Henry has served on several federally funded grants designed to infuse teaching and learning with sound pedagogies and technological supports. D.J. Henry has extensive experience in the standardized testing of literacy competencies. She worked with the State of Florida from 1982 to 2002 as an item writer, rubric writer, and reader for the College Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST) and the State Developmental Reading and Writing Exit Exam. D.J. Henry also served as a reader for the Florida Teacher Certification Exam (FTCE) for over 15 years. D.J. Henry has several esteemed publications, including a three-book college reading series with Longman Publishers (The Skilled Reader, The Effective Reader, and The Master Reader). Adopted at over 1,100 institutions nation wide, the series had an immediate and profound impact on the teaching of college reading, and is the most successful launch of a first edition reading series in over two decades. Another highly regarded publication is D.J. Henry's Thinking Through the Test (Longman Publishers), a study guide for the State Developmental Reading and Writing Exit Exam in Florida. Additionally, she has also published innovations in authentic assessments that utilize student portfolio pedagogies. A passionate educator and dedicate colleague, D.J. Henry continues to share her expertise in reading, writing, and authentic assessment through numerous presentations and workshops at national, regional, and local conferences and individual colleges.

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Part 1: Getting Ready to Write
1. Preparing to Learn about Writing
2. Thinking through the Writing Process

Part 2: Using Patterns of Organization to Develop Paragraphs
3. Understanding the Paragraph
4. The Descriptive Paragraph
5. The Narrative Paragraph
6. The Process Paragraph
7. The Example Paragraph
8. The Classification Paragraph
9. The Comparison and Contrast Paragraph
10. The Definition Paragraph
11. The Cause and Effect Paragraph
12. The Persuasive Paragraph

Part 3: Writing an Essay
13. Understanding the Essay
14. Effective Introductions, Conclusions, and Titles
15. Using Patterns of Organization to Develop Essays
16. Research Strategies and Resources

Part 4: The Basic Sentence
17. Nouns and Pronouns
18. Adjectives and Adverbs
19. Verbs
20. Subjects, Verbs, and Simple Sentences
21. Compound and Complex Sentences

Part 5: Recognizing and Avoiding Errors
22. Comma Splices and Run-ons
23. Fragments
24. Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
25. Subject-Verb Agreement

Part 6: Punctuation and Mechanics
26. The Comma
27. The Apostrophe
28. Quotation Marks
29. End Punctuation
30. Capitalization
31. Spelling

Part 7: Writing Clearly
32. Sentence Variety
33. Sentence Clarity
34. Parallelism
35. Revising for Effective Expression

Part 8: Reading Selections

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