Mosaics Focusing On Essays

Intended for Introductory Developmental Writing Courses at the college level. Also, it is a very useful tool as a Freshman Composition Handbook. This text reinforces the skills needed for effective written communication. Contemporary student and professional essays guide users through each of the eight primary purposes for writing, and are coupled with collaborative and individual assignments encouraging peer discussion and debate. Built-in grammar and revision guides fall at the end of each chapter: "Focus on Essays" provides information on the larger issues of essay organization, "Focus on Paragraphs" discusses editing techniques and structure, while "Focus on Sentences" offers a concise summary of the basic rules of grammar and usage.

Welcome to Mosaics: Focusing on Essays, Third Edition-the text that helps students help themselves as they study their own writing. It contains a multitude of exercises and activities that encourages students to apply the techniques and skills of good writing to their own assignments. With all three texts in the Mosaics series, students start writing when the learning begins, not when the learning ends. Book jacket.

Mosaics: Focusing on Essays is the first book in a three-book writing series that focuses on the basic skills essential to all good academic writing. This “three-in-one” rhetoric/reader/handbook teaches students how to read and write critically, by giving them access to 1) examples of all aspects of the writing process through student writing examples, 2) a complete handbook with exercises, and 3) fifteen high-interest readings by Canadian authors. Mosaics: Focusing on Essays allows students to develop confidence in their ability to read, write and edit by reading, writing, and editing their own writing.

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