Refining Composition Skills

The new edition of this best-selling series combines comprehensive development and practice in the rhetorical modes while integrating instruction in reading, grammar, critical thinking, and vocabulary development. -Developing Composition Skills focuses students on narrating, describing, analyzing, comparing and contrasting, classifying, and evaluating at the paragraph level and offers a complete introduction that bridges the gap between the paragraph and the essay level. -Refining Composition Skills develops essay writing skills needed for success at the college level by thoroughly reviewing and presenting the following rhetorical modes: compare and contrast, example, classification, process analysis, cause and effect, and argument

This Fourth Edition continues to integrate instruction in rhetorical devices with practice in acquiring relevant grammatical structures, and has added several new features.

The new edition of this best-selling series combines comprehensive development and practice in the rhetorical modes while integrating instruction in reading, grammar, critical thinking, and vocabulary development. -Developing Composition Skills focuses students on narrating, describing, analyzing, comparing and contrasting, classifying, and evaluating at the paragraph level and offers a complete introduction that bridges the gap between the paragraph and the essay level. -Refining Composition Skills develops essay writing skills needed for success at the college level by thoroughly reviewing and presenting the following rhetorical modes: compare and contrast, example, classification, process analysis, cause and effect, and argument.

An intermediate-level writing text for academically bound ESL and EFL students. The program provides paragraph-level writing development, introduction to and use of rhetorical strategies, grammar support, and a rich selection of readings that serve as springboards for writing.

Developing Composition Skills is an intermediate level writing text for academically bound ESL/EFL students. The program provides paragraph-level writing development, practice in the rhetorical modes, grammar support, and a rich selection of readings that serve as springboards for writing. This text presents concepts, skills, and strategies that are recycled and expanded upon in Refining Composition Skills, a high-intermediate level writing text.