• Succinct,  user-friendly, self-contained lessons make teaching and learning manageable.
  
• Compelling readings inspire student interest before writing modes are introduced.
  
• Many student essays reinforce comprehension of writing modes.
  
• Focused grammar and rhetorical presentation and exercises refine writing skills
• Checklists heighten focus on editing.
  
• Timed essay writing and rhetorical and grammar tests at the end of teach unit prepare students for high-stakes assessment.
• Grammar presentation and practice are correlated to the Oxford Grammar Sense Series
  

In Focus: Strategies for Academic Writers is a concise guide for effective academic writing for native and nonnative speakers. It teaches common academic writing tasks such as paragraphs, summaries, short essays, critical reviews, syntheses, argumentative essays, research papers, and response writing.

This textbook incorporates the process approach to writing and presents strategies for every aspect of the pre-writing and writing process. The Focus Approach (Format-Organization-Content-Understanding-Style) helps students analyze the writing task at hand and clarify the goals of their projects, while the Power Writing Process (Prepare-Outline-Write-Edit-Rewrite) allows students to complete the writing and revision of their assignments one step at a time. The textbook also addresses the problem of writer's block and provides techniques to help students cope with anxiety associated with writing.

• Organizational principles that include topic sentences, unity and coherence, making and supporting a point, clear transitions, and introductory and concluding paragraphs.
• Application of these organizational principles to major rhetorical forms including classification, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, and problem and solution essays.
• Extensive practice includes pre-writing, drafting, revision, and editing.
• Interactive activities and individual writing tasks generate student interest.
• Error correction and editing practice.

From grammar and punctuation to the creation of essays and business letters, The Essentials of English: A Writer's Handbook is a must-have reference tool for today's writer. As easy to use as a dictionary, this handbook is designed specifically for the English learner. This valuable handbook:

• Pays extra attention to articles, phrasal verbs, subordinate clauses, and other commonly troublesome items.
• Uses everyday language and simple sentence structure in both explanations and examples. Coverage is comprehensive but not intimidating.
• Examples reflect a multicultural perspective.
• Includes reference lists especially helpful to non-native speakers.

Each part focuses on a single topic, building from sentence structure and mechanics to writing, revising, and proper formatting. Students also learn how to write a research paper in the MLA and APA styles. Practice exercises provide immediate application, and "Special Tips" throughout indicate common errors, explain confusing points, and offer helpful hints. Computer notes offer guidance on using computers for writing.

• Extensive practice in prewriting, drafting, revising and editing,
  
• Numerous models and practice opportunities
• Clear, step-by-step instruction in the conventions of paragraph and essay writing
  
• Rigorous development of sentence structure, grammar and mechanical skills
• Thought-provoking readings from authentic sources
• Self-editing and peer-editing worksheets
• Appendices with key reference materials for students and teachers

Elementary to Pre-Intermediate

Writing for the Real World is a 2-level writing course in international English, designed for young adult and adult learners. It covers the key writing skills learners need to deal effectively with email and other forms of written correspondence.

• Examples of good writing for a range of text types, with a focus on email.
• Practice in a range of functions, e.g. asking for information, complaining.
• Tips for improving writing.
• Reference section covering layout, punctuation, style and register.
• Teacher's Guide includes teaching notes, ideas for optional activities, and photocopiable worksheets.

• New pre-reading activities along with post-reading caption-writing exercises support the readings and introduce the grammatical and rhetorical focus of each of the 10 units.
• New and richly detailed illustrations help students with comprehension of vocabulary and idioms in both readings and model compositions.
• Newly revised exercises on comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, semantic organization, and writing techniques prepare students to write successful compositions.
• New on-line activities encourage students to use the Internet as a resource for their writing.
• Ideal for use with More Grammar Practice Workbooks!

• Authentic and adapted readings establish the chapter context and introduce academic content areas.
• Content areas prepare students for academic assignments in health, psychology, history, business, cultural studies and more.
• A variety of writing and skills activities coach students in the development of effective sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
• Critical reading and thinking prompts inspire students to explore the content.
• The Destinations 1: Grammar for Academic Success workbook provides supplemental grammar activities that support the writing and content focus of the text.
• Assessment CD-ROM with ExamView allows instructors to create quizzes and tests easily for both the writing and grammar books.
• Structured writing activities and models at the paragraph and essay level help students master English composition skills, including the skill of summarizing.
• Clear charts and exercises focus on sentence level writing and editing skills.

As a main text, a supplement to writing and grammar classes, or as a reference guide, Eye on Editing provides explanations and practice for the most frequent errors in intermediate and high-intermediate student writing.

This two-level series is designed for writers who are often unable to identify and correct common grammatical inaccuracies in their own work.

Students develop solid editing skills as they work through a diagnostic pretest, grammar explanations with easy-to-read charts, a progression of increasingly challenging editing exercises, and guided writing tasks. The final chapter’s editing exercises require students to integrate all the skills they have learned.

Guidelines, strategies, and practice in writing for academic success.

• Reason to Write takes students through the writing process from generating ideas, drafting and revising, to proof-reading and editing.
• The first two books in the series concentrate on paragraph writing; the last two books focus on essay writing.
• Each theme-based unit contains a short, thought-provoking reading passage to spark students' interest and provide meaningful issues to write about.
• Accompanying activities establish a framework for lively, in-depth discussion and the development of analytical thinking skills, which are so crucial to effective writing in higher education.
• All instruction in each unit, including grammar, vocabulary, and rhetorical style, is thoroughly integrated with the theme and the writing objectives, so that students proceed along a seamless path from reading to thinking to writing, from the preparatory stages of writing to the completion of a final written piece.

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Standards-based writing and test-taking skills are taught through a step-by-step approach with the use of writing models, grammar activities, graphic organizers, revision/editing practice, checklists, and timed writings.

• Standards-based writing and test-taking skills are taught through a step-by-step approach with the use of writing models, grammar activities, graphic organizers, revision/editing practice, checklists, and timed writings.
• A comprehensive approach to writing allows teachers to handle a range of ability and proficiency levels while exploring various genres including narrative, expository, technical, persuasive, response to literature, and letters and correspondence.
• Teacher's Manual contains answer keys, multi-level teaching suggestions, additional writing prompts, and graphic organizers.
• Technology skills are integrated through online research activities and word processing skills.
• Assessment CD-ROM featuring ExamView® Pro helps teachers create customizable, standards-aligned exams.

Tapestry Writing engages writing and reading activities, integrates grammar instruction, Language Learning and Academic Power Strategies, CNN videos, and a web site effectively preparing students to be successful, independent learners.

• Academic Power Strategies gives students the knowledge and skills to become successful, independent learners.
• Language Learning Strategies help students maximize their learning and become proficient in English.
• Apply the Strategy activities encourage students to take charge of their learning and immediately use their new skills and strategies.
• CNN video clips provide an exciting springboard for writing activities and help integrate listening skills.
• Tapestry Threads provide students with interesting facts and quotes that jumpstart classroom discussions.
• Integrated grammar instruction stems from the writing and reading activities, and gives students the know-how to write and edit their work with accuracy (applies to the Grammar You Can Use section.)
• Test-Taking tips offer students practical steps for improving their test results.
• Check Your Progress helps students monitor their own progress.
• Stimulating reading selections model writing and grammar usage, and prepare students for the pre-writing, writing, and revising activities.

Using engaging writing assignments, relevant themes, and interactive exercises, the Write Ahead series helps students build accuracy and fluency in writing.  This two-level series immerses students in the writing process, with themes and activities geared to the interests and grammatical and vocabulary proficiencies of a new generation of learners.

Each writing assignment demonstrates how to gather and organize ideas, revise drafts, and identify language errors.

This three-book series provides students with a solid foundation in writing skills. After completing this series, students will be well prepared to tackle academic essay writing. The approach assumes that even lower-level students can handle a full-blown process approach to writing. In each chapter, students work through a five-step composing process: Getting Started, Preparing the First Draft, Revising Your Writing, Editing Your Writing, and Following Up.

In Writers at Work, students learn how to:

• Use prewriting strategies to help gather and organize ideas
• Organize their writing with main ideas and supporting details
• Revise using a multi-drafting process approach
• Edit and proofread for common grammatical errors

Through a range of engaging activities, Writing from Within draws on students' world knowledge, beliefs, and personal perceptions to teach organization as well as other aspects of the writing process.

• Designed to be suitable for large as well as small classes
• Twelve units with self-contained one- or two-page lessons
• Later activities in a unit that do not require completion of all previous ones
• Brainstorming activities; analysis of models; activities focusing on organization; pre-writing, writing, and post-writing activities in every unit
• Optional real-world expansion activities
• A Teacher's Manual containing step-by-step teaching procedures, supplementary classroom activities, and complete answer keys

With a combined process and product approach, Writing to Communicate puts students on a fast track to clear and effective academic writing.

All together, the Writing to Communicate series teaches students to write grammatically-correct and well-organized paragraphs, essays and research papers.

• Theme-based chapters encourage students to explore ideas.
• Vocabulary Builder sections provide useful language for writing.
• Abundant and clear models give students solid support.
• Pair and group assignments promote collaborative learning.
• Structure and Mechanics sections develop accuracy.
• Paragraph checklists help students to revise their work.
• Graphic organizers, paragraph checklists, and peer-help worksheets enrich the writing process.
• Bring It All Together chapters provide opportunities for consolidation and assessment.

• Blueprint Boxes serve as templates, allowing students to see what is missing from their writing and ensuring a clear, coherent structure.
• Real-life tasks provide practice in defining, comparing, examining cause and effect, and explaining a process.
• Models of appropriate writing -- letters, essays, and reports -- combine with real-life examples to provide meaningful contexts for learning.
• Problem-probe activities contrast various writing models to help students identify areas for improvement
• Easy-to-use correction codes help students identify and correct common problems
• Companion Website reinforces activities
  

The fourth edition of this classic writing skills book contains many new features and new readings, and it has been fully revised and updated. In this reading-based writing book, the author has selected six new high-interest pieces and retained six favorites from the third edition. The twelve readings appear in four thematic units: Language, Culture, Work, and Roots. The readings represent a wide variety of genres, with at least one academic reading per unit.

A Writer's Workbook takes advanced-level writing students systematically from reading to writing. Along the way, students read a high-interest text; study the structure of academic essays; grapple with troublesome areas of grammar and writing mechanics; read and analyze student model essays; and write, revise, and edit.

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• Authentic writing assignments
• Authentic writing models
• Power Grammar
• Online teaching and study centers

Develops the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills that students will require in content classes.

Creating Meaning provides a bridge to the academic mainstream by teaching students to comprehend facts and ideas, select and synthesize relevant information, and communicate this information accurately and analytically in their writing.

• Readings are authentic, current, and are taken from textbooks, magazines, journals, and essay collections.
• Writing tasks centred around the major rhetorical modes common in academics, including description, comparison/contrast, cause/effect, argument, and critique.
• Process approach to writing.
• Practice in grammar, editing, and reviewing.
• Canadian content.
• Extensive practice with key skills such as paraphrasing, summarizing, comparing information and perspectives, distinguishing fact from opinion, assessing bias, and documenting sources.
• The final chapter teaches students to assemble a research paper with multiple citations.

• Writing assignments and exercises develop and reinforce critical thinking skills.
• Student essays model the writing process approach of the text.
• Students will find helpful study tips for time management and studying.
• Rhetorical grammar practice helps refine student writing. 

Engaging Writing Paragraphs and Essays, by Mary Fitzpatrick, provides students with essential skills and practice in writing for academic success. Opening with a motivating reading, each chapter provides thematically linked models and exercises. The text guides students step-by-step through the writing process, illustrating appropriate organizational patterns for each rhetorical mode. Themes such as memory, cultural identity, and teamwork prepare high-intermediate to advanced students to make the transition to mainstream classes.

• Thought-provoking readings stimulate discussion and provide clear direction for writing.
• Prewriting samples equip students with strategies to organize and develop their ideas.
• Guided activities help students gain fluency and accuracy in their writing.
• Review and Recycle boxes show students how to look critically at their writing as they revise.
• Appendices include a review of grammar and mechanics with exercises and a guide to citation and summarizing

From Writing to Composing interweaves structured guided writing activities with freer activities that use a multi-drafting approach. This second edition has been radically transformed, but retains many of the original, lively writing activities. All the units are new, and the book has a new, two-part structure.

The first part of the book introduces different genres of writing and the key activity types of the book. The second part teaches how to write paragraphs using different modes of rhetorical organization, such as chronological organization to describe someone's daily routine, and enumeration to classify something into its different types.

Throughout the book, students build a portfolio of their writing and produce projects that they publish as wall displays, a class newspaper, or a class website.

Gateways to Academic Writing Effective Sentences, Paragraphs, and Essays, by Alan Meyers, provides a fully integrated program of writing instruction for high-intermediate to advanced students of English.

Inspired to Write offers a choice of 45 readings taken from a variety of genres, including personal essays, stories, newspaper and magazine articles, and academic texts. The readings provide students with models of good writing, stimuli for discussion, and inspiration for their own writing.

This book has three units divided into four thematic subsections. It features Toolboxes and Writer's Tip boxes that are woven throughout the text, each presenting essential writing skill strategies. As well as developing overall writing skills, Inspired to Write contains a strong emphasis on academic writing skills, such as citing sources.

New Directions is a thematic reading-writing book aimed at the most advanced learners. It prepares students for the rigors of college-level writing by having them read long, challenging, authentic readings and applying critical thinking skills to them as a precursor to writing. This emphasis on multiple longer readings gives New Directions its distinctive character. Each of the five topic-based chapters contains three core readings and five additional readings. The readings come from a variety of genres and are accompanied by exercise material.

The second edition represents a major revision. It contains two entirely new chapters and many new readings and activities in the other three. Another significant new feature is a handbook section on the essentials of writing that is set in colored pages for easy access in the center of the book. Students work through this section for their first writing assignment and return to this thorough treatment of the writing process for each subsequent major writing assignment.

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Skill Set: Strategies for Reading and Writing is an English text that focuses on building skills in vocabulary, grammar, writing, and editing, along with enhancing reading skills.

Write to be Read helps students develop their academic writing skills. Using thought-provoking authentic readings that challenge students to think critically and clearly, Write to be Read guides students through the processes of reading, reflection, writing, and revision. The reading selections offer a variety of genres, including short stories, magazine articles, and essays. The writing instruction in the first two chapters concentrates on writing clear and well-constructed paragraphs, whereas the remaining five chapters focus on the academic essay.

Each chapter includes two authentic readings on closely related topics, gives practice in writing both personal and academic responses to the readings, and provides opportunities for reflection and discussion on the chapter topic. Students receive instruction in academic writing skills such as paraphrasing, summarizing, writing topic sentences, and organizing an essay. In addition, a significant section of the book is given over to exercises that help students expand their knowledge of English grammar, to enable them to better revise and edit their writing.

• Practical and contextualized exercises engage students' attention as they learn to recognize and craft grammatically correct sentences.
• Over 150 exercise sets reinforce coherence in student writing and include practice in writing sentences and proofreading paragraphs.
• Answers to all exercises are provided at the back of the book, allowing for immediate feedback.
• The Writing section introduces the writing process and includes assignments, samples by both student and professional writers, and articles to read, react to, and summarize.
• Ready-to-photocopy tests can be downloaded from http://writingessentials.heinle.com.

• Basic organizational skills.
• Rhetorical modes of communication.
• Practical and academic writing lessons.
• Lessons gradually increase in complexity.

The Great Writing series uses clear explanations and extensive practical activities to help students write great sentences, paragraphs, and essays. Each book contains a wide variety of writing models in carefully selected rhetorical styles that provide practice in working with the writing process to develop a final piece of writing.

In Great Writing 1: Great Sentences for Great Paragraphs, basic writing skills are built by focusing on the elements of a good sentence within the context of a paragraph.

Great Writing 2: Great Paragraphs introduces the process of paragraph development and teaches how to generate ideas and write within a variety of rhetorical patterns.

Great Writing 3: From Great Paragraphs to Great Essays takes a step-by-step approach that centers on the essential processes and organizational strategies of teaching students how to effectively transition from paragraphs to essays.

Great Writing 4: Great Essays shows students how to write effective essays and provides practice in rhetorical patterns.

Great Writing 5: Greater Essays uses more challenging models and assignments to give students opportunities to further develop their essay writing and vocabulary skills.

Writing for the Real World is a 2-level writing course in international English, designed for young adult and adult learners. It covers the key writing skills learners need to deal effectively with email and other forms of written correspondence.

• Examples of good writing for a range of text types, with a focus on email.
• Practice in a range of functions, e.g. asking for information, complaining.
• Tips for improving writing.
• Reference section covering layout, punctuation, style and register.
• Teacher's Guide includes teaching notes, ideas for optional activities, and photocopiable worksheets.