New Features of the Third Edition

• Instructional hints direct students' attention to proven ways of understanding grammar. Added to the first item of nearly every practice, each hint serves as an instructional bridge, assisting students as they move from learning about a skill to applying it in their writing.
• New reading selections: Amy Tan's "The Most Hateful Words"; an excerpt from The Road Less Traveled, by M. Scott Peck; and Helen Mrosla's "All Good Things," a moving story about a special assignment the author gave her students.
• "Real World" tests allow students to apply their understanding of sentence skills to documents they encounter outside the classroom: a job application form, two cover letters, and two résumés.
• Unequalled Technology Support! This text is accompanied by more teaching and learning software than any basic writing text. Icons added throughout this edition alert students when additional online coverage and activities are available.

Proven Features of Sentence Skills with Readings

• Track Record: Across the three levels of basic writing (sentence, paragraph, and essay) over 2,000,000 students, 11,300 instructors, and 3,125 colleges and universities have succeeded with John Langan's approach.
• Mastery and Editing and Proofreading Tests. Part Three provides reinforcement of sentence skills through a wide range of tests.
• Technology Support: From the grammar tutorial AllWrite! to the specially designed Instructor's Resource CD-ROM, this text is accompanied by more teaching and learning software than any other basic writing text.
• The Langan Support Hotline: 1-800-MCGRAWH (800-624-7294) or langan@mcgraw-hill.com. Staffed from 8:00 to 4:30 pm CST, the Langan line offers expert answers to text queries and concerns, updates on the Langan Series, technology advice and support, and more.