01914cam a2200265 a 4500 2541346 20210414114656.0 940425s1995 nyua 001 0 eng 9780073371689 0073371688 DLC DLC DLC PE1408.L25 Langan, John English skills with readings. / John Langan. 8th ed. New York : McGraw-Hill, 2012. xxix, 790 p. : ill. (col.); 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Contents: Basic principles of effective writing: An introduction to writing -- The writing process -- The First and second steps in writing -- The Third step in writing -- The fourth steps in writing -- Four bases for revising writing -- Introduction to paragraph development -- Exemplification -- Process -- Cause and effect -- Comparing or contrasting -- Definition -- Division- classification -- Description -- Narration -- Argument -- Additional paragraph assignments -- Essay Development: Writing the essay -- Research skills: Using the library and the internet -- Writing a research paper -- Handbook of sentence skills: Sentence skills diagnostic test -- Subjects and verbs --Sentence sense -- Fragments -- Run-ons -- Standard English verbs --Irregular verbs -- Subject-verb agreement -- .......... -- Apostrophes -- Quotation marks -- Commas -- Other punctuation marks -- Using the dictionary -- Improving spelling -- Vocabulary development -- Commonly confused words -- Effective word choice -- ESL pointers --Combined mastery tests -- Editing tests -- Introduction to the readings -- Goals and values -- Education and self-improvement -- Human groups and society. English language Rhetoric. English language Grammar. College readers. lcc BK 7314 14814 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-KL WIUC-KL GEN 2019-11-22 PE1408.L251(8e) K/2791/2791/19 2020-06-02 00:00:00 2020-06-02 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-KL WIUC-KL GEN 2019-11-22 PE1408.L25(8e) K/2779/2779/19 2020-06-19 00:00:00 2020-06-02 BK