ISE College Writing Skills with Readings – eBook

Description

College Writing Skills with Readings, 11th Edition by John Langan and Zoe L. Albright provides students with a practical and structured approach to developing effective writing skills. Rather than treating writing as something students either can or cannot do, the book presents writing as a learnable skill and an ongoing process that improves through practice, revision, and careful attention to fundamental writing principles.

The textbook emphasizes four essential bases of effective writing: Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills. These principles provide students with a clear framework for developing stronger paragraphs and essays across academic, professional, and personal contexts.

Unity teaches students how to establish a clear point or topic sentence and ensure that supporting information remains focused on that central idea. Support emphasizes the use of specific and sufficient evidence to develop and strengthen ideas. Coherence helps students organize information logically and create smooth connections between supporting points. Finally, Sentence Skills focuses on revising and editing sentences to improve clarity, correctness, and effectiveness.

By combining writing skills with a process-oriented approach, College Writing Skills with Readings helps students develop transferable writing abilities that can be applied to academic essays, personal writing, professional correspondence, and other real-world communication.

ISBN: 9781265226596
Edition: 11th International Edition
Authors: John Langan, Zoe L. Albright