Full Description
Building reading and writing skills doesn't have to be an intimidating experience. Let this book be your guide. FUSION: INTEGRATED READING AND WRITING, Book 1 connects the reading and writing processes so that they reinforce one another. By reading interesting professional and student writing models, you'll learn the vital reading skills to comprehend college-level content. You'll also learn how these skills can help you produce the kinds of thoughtful writing assignments expected of you in your future courses.
Contents
Part I: READING AND WRITING FOR SUCCESS.
1. The Reading-Writing Connection.
2. Understanding the Reading and Writing Processes.
3. Using Reading and Writing Strategies.
4. Improving Vocabulary.
5. Critical Thinking and Viewing.
Part II: READING AND WRITING PARAGRAPHS.
6. Ideas.
7. Organization.
8. Voice.
9. Reading and Writing Essays.
Part III: TYPES OF READING AND WRITING.
10. Reading and Writing Narratives Texts.
11. Reading and Writing Expository Texts.
12. Reading and Writing Arguments.
Part IV: INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH.
13. Conducting Research.
Part V: SENTENCE WORKSHOPS.
14. Sentence Basics.
15. Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences.
16. Agreement.
17. Sentence Problems.
Part VI: WORD WORKSHOPS.
18. Nouns.
19. Pronouns.
20. Verbs.
21. Adjectives and Adverbs.
22. Conjunctions and Prepositions.
Part VII: PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS WORKSHOPS.
23. Capitalization.
24. Comma.
25. Quotation Marks and Italics.
26. Other Punctuation.
Part VIII: READINGS FOR WRITING.
27. Anthology
Appendix.
Index.
