Instructional hints direct students' attention to proven ways of understanding grammar. Added to the first item of nearly every practice.
Reading selections including 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.
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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.
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