Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond: A Worktext With Readings - Softcover

Brandon, Lee; Brandon, Kelly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618042628 ISBN 13: 9780618042623

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div, 2000

Synopsis

Flexible and comprehensive, this popular worktext gives students basic instruction and practice in writing at the sentence and paragraph levels, with a special unit on the transition from paragraph to essay. Part III offers a rich diversity of thematic reading selections in each chapter by student and professional writers. Each unit features a checklist summary with review exercises, and additional pedagogy throughout includes reading-related vocabulary previews, discussion questions, writing assignments, and journal entry suggestions.

About this title

About the Author:

Lee Brandon is the author of twelve college English textbooks with Cengage Learning, including the best-selling series, Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond with Integrated Readings, and Paragraphs and Essays with Integrated Readings and the highly successful At a Glance series. He has served as chair of the English Department at Mt. San Antonio College, where he taught for more than thirty years and occasionally still teaches. Few authors are as active in the promotion of their books as Lee Brandon, who regularly visits schools across the country and presents at professional conferences. Lee also has to his credit poems and short stories in magazines; songs recorded and in sheet music; a best-selling musical play for elementary school students (in print with Lorenz Music); a play produced by a college drama department; a published Ford Foundation grant project; a chapbook of ballads about his youth, Oklahoma, My Sweet Sorrow; a chapbook of ballads about his experience teaching for ten years in a high-security California women's prison, Butterflies on Barbwire; and newspaper articles about travel, adventures, and whimsical experiences.

A partner in the father-son writing team for the best-selling series, Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond, 5e, and Paragraphs and Essays, 10e, Kelly is a tenured professor of English at Santa Ana College. His B.A. is from the University of California at Los Angeles and his M.A. is from the University of California at Santa Barbara. For recreation he lifts weights, backpacks, plays the clarinet, and drives his fully restored 1953 yellow and white Chevrolet Bel Air.

Review:

"Is the best textbook I've found for developmental writing classes. The logical development from parts of speech through the essay makes sense for me and my students."

"I think the reading-centered writing is very useful in providing form and techniques for the students. This approach helps the students create an awareness of using models of writing and putting their own style (voice) into a particular form. I believe that providing clear forms and models gives our students something concrete to build on."

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0618042628
• ISBN 13: 9780618042623
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 448