Guadalupe Valdés,
Stanford University Trisha Dvorak,
University of Washington Thomasina Pagán Hannum Claudia Angelelli,
San Diego State University
ISBN: 0072818891 Copyright year: 2004
Feature Summary
Writing exercises focus students on the needs of the reader and also help them develop a repertoire of writing techniques, including peer editing skills.
The structure of each chapter models the stages of the writing process and helps to ensure that students will have done significant thinking about their topic and their reader before they begin to write.
Models of different kinds of writing are provided, as well as models of how to analyze each type. Models are level-appropriate for most students, since they are similar to what students themselves can write.
The text helps students to develop a sense of writing as interaction between writer/reader/purpose/message.
Composicíon treats grammatical skill as only one of several important resources that good writers need to communicate effectively.
The Workbook helps student expand and refine a number of writing tools (control of grammar, range of vocabulary, rhetorical techniques for organizing information) as well as strategies for getting started. Each chapter begins with a section entitled Páginas personales, in which students perform a variety of prewriting tasks from the Primera and Segunda etapa sections of the textbook; grammar exercises to accompany explanations in the textbook are all in the workbook, where students can check many of their own answers in an answer appendix.
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