Refining composition skills : rhetoric and grammar.
This edition of Canadian Content contains forty new writing selections, mostly by or about Canadians. The units offer examples of effective writing on Narration and Description, Explaining With Word Pictures, Process Analysis, Classification and Division, Comparison and Contrast, Cause and Effect, Definition, and Argument and Persuasion. A theme based table of contents is offered for instructors teaching around a theme. Themes include O Canada, The Cultural Mosaic, History, Arts, Media and Sport, Morals and Ethics, Politics, Relationships, Science, Technology and Nature, and Language and Writing. Essays within units are arranged from the simplest to the most complex. Each essay is followed by questions that direct the student s attention to structure, strategy, content and purpose and contains suggestions for essay topics.
Record details
- ISBN: 0838452108
- Physical Description: xvii, 493 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Edition: 4th ed. / Regina L. Smalley, Mary K. Ruetten.
- Publisher: Boston : Heinle & Heinle, c1995.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Previous editions titled: Refining composition skills, rhetoric and grammar for ESL students. Includes index. |
Target Audience Note: | Intended for upper intermediate to advanced level ESL students. |
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Subject: | English language > Rhetoric. English language > Textbooks for foreign speakers |
Topic Heading: | ESL writing. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Vancouver Community College.
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Broadway Library | PE 1128 S57 1995 (Text) | 33109004383493 | Learning Centre | Not holdable | Available | - | ||
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