The reading-writing connection
By: John Langan
Series: Townsend Press reading series; Townsend Press reading series
Publisher: Townsend Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: West Berlin, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781591943013
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Writing skills; Study skills; Reading (Higher education); Reading comprehension; College readers
Other titles: Reading writing connection
Description: The Reading-Writing Connection will help you become a more effective reader and writer. You will learn, in a nutshell, that good readers (1) recognize a main point and (2) recognize the support for that point, and that good writers (1) make a point and (2) support the point.
Table of contents: title: Vocabulary development for reading and writing; title: Main ideas in reading; title: Supporting details in reading; title: Main ideas and supporting details in writing; title: Understanding the writing process; title: Relationships in reading; title: Relationships in writing; title: More relationships in reading; title: More relationships in writing; title: Inferences in reading and writing; title: Longer selections in reading and writing; title: The yellow ribbon / Pete Hamill; title: Adult children at home / Marilyn Mack; title: Rowing the bus / Paul Logan; title: All washed up? / Sara Hansen; title: The scholarship jacket / Marta Salinas; title: Taming the anger monster / Anne Davidson; title: All the good things / Sister Helen Mrosla; title: Shame / Dick Gregory; title: "Extra large, please" / Alice M. Davies; title: A change of attitude / Grant Berry; title: Abusive relationships among the young / Miriam Hill; title: A door swings open / Roxanne Black; title: A drunken ride, a tragic aftermath / Theresa Conroy and Christine M. Johnson; title: Migrant child to college woman / Maria Cardenas; title: Students in shock / John Kellmayer and Alina Wyden.