Publisher's Synopsis
New Publication Now Available!Like this book on Facebook! Are you looking for a better way to teach your students the essential elements of good writing?Do your students struggle with complicated directives (such as ""place commas around all non-restrictive participle phrases"") that mostly serve to discourage them?Do they understand how writers reach conclusions (theses) and defend them?Writing Insights: Discovering the Keys to Structure and Content is a unique writing textbook that offers a clearer and simpler way to help your students become confident writers. Writing Insights: Discovering the Keys to Structure and Content: Is not a writing handbook. It is not a writing guide or a grammar text, either. Nor is it a reader. It really is a writing textbookone that uses a completely new and unique approach to the task of teaching students what they need to know about writing. Uses a series of exercises to equip students with the same ""sentence sense""an unerring sense of the subordination, parallelism and punctuation of sentencesthat professional writers possess. By observing the structure of sentences, students will begin to see them in a new way and will be able to write more skillfully and confidently. Offers students a more orderly and effective way to learn the conventions of usage and provides a creative and interesting way to develop and support thesesanother very important area of writing. Several samplesfrom single-paragraph themes to a multi-page research paperhelp students understand how strong papers are constructed.Most education experts agree that students don't write as well as they should, especially in this age of digital technologyan era of expanding but undisciplined communication. Give your students the tools to succeed with Writing Insights.
