TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flachmann,Kim
AU  - Wilson, Wendy
AU  - Mackey, Melissa
TI  - Mosaics: focusing on essays 
SN  - 9780131275584
AV  - PE 1408 .F47  2006
U1  - 808/.042 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - Pearson Prentice Hall
KW  - English language
KW  - Paragraphs
KW  - Problems, exercises, etc
KW  - Rhetoric
N1  - Includes index; Reading and writing as critical -- Reading critically -- Writing critically -- Revising and editing -- Describing -- Narrating -- Illustrating -- Analyzing a process -- Comparing and contrasting -- Dividing and classifying -- Defining -- Analyzing causes and effects -- Arguing -- How to read an essay -- How to write an essay -- Writing workshop -- Parts of speech -- Phrases and clauses -- Subjects and verbs -- Fragments -- Fused sentences and comma splices -- Regular and irregular verbs -- Verb tense -- Subject/verb agreement -- More on verbs -- Pronoun problems -- Pronoun reference and point of view -- Pronoun agreement -- Adjectives -- Adverbs -- Modifier errors -- Commas -- Apostrophes -- Quotation marks -- Other punctuation marks -- Capitalization -- Abbreviations and numbers -- Varying sentence structure -- Parallelism -- Combining sentences -- Standard and nonstandard English -- Easily confused words -- Spelling
N2  - "Reading and Writing Paragraphs teaches the basic skills essential good academic writing and illustrates how the companion skills of reading and writing are parts of a larger, interrelated process"--
ER  -