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.
6. Artificial Intelligence and Writing.
Part II: READING AND WRITING PARAGRAPHS.
7. Ideas.
8. Organization.
9. Voice.
10. Reading and Writing Essays.
Part III: TYPES OF READING AND WRITING.
11. Reading and Writing Narratives Texts.
12. Reading and Writing Expository Texts.
13. Reading and Writing Arguments.
Part IV: INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH.
14. Conducting Research.
Part V: SENTENCE WORKSHOPS.
15. Sentence Basics.
16. Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences.
17. Agreement.
18. Sentence Problems.
Part VI: WORD WORKSHOPS.
19. Nouns.
20. Pronouns.
21. Verbs.
22. Adjectives and Adverbs.
23. Conjunctions and Prepositions.
Part VII: PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS WORKSHOPS.
24. Capitalization.
25. Comma.
26. Quotation Marks and Italics.
27. Other Punctuation.
Part VIII: READINGS FOR WRITING.
28. Anthology.
Appendix.
Index.
