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Real Essays Essentials
From Drafting to RevisingFirst Edition| ©2018 Miriam Moore; Susan Anker
Author Miriam Moore believes in helping students learn to trust themselves as readers, writers, and thinkers. Writing Essentials Online: A Macmillan Launchpad provides a space where students can build both confidence and strong academic writing skills that will carry them forward...
Author Miriam Moore believes in helping students learn to trust themselves as readers, writers, and thinkers. Writing Essentials Online: A Macmillan Launchpad provides a space where students can build both confidence and strong academic writing skills that will carry them forward in college and career.
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Get Miriam Moore’s advice for planning, drafting, and revising essays—even when you aren’t online!
Author Miriam Moore believes in helping students learn to trust themselves as readers, writers, and thinkers. Writing Essentials Online: A Macmillan Launchpad provides a space where students can build both confidence and strong academic writing skills that will carry them forward in college and career.
A portable print text, Real Writing Essentials works together with Writing Essentials Online to deliver just the support necessary in order to develop paragraphs and essays. It can be packaged with Writing Essentials Online at a significant discount.
Features
Brief, Affordable Format. The text offers essential advice and instruction for the essay level course — process-oriented writing instruction and focused grammar lessons — in a concise and affordable format.
Support for Reading, Critical Thinking, and Text-based Writing. An emphasis on reading strategies and responding to texts through summary and paraphrase highlights the importance of careful reading to effective
writing. Marginal questions encourage students to pause and think critically during the reading process, and questions following readings invite students to summarize, make connections, and integrate readings in their own writing.
Real-World Examples. Samples of real students’ writing demonstrate the concepts covered and give students confidence that good writing skills are achievable. These models address such real-world issues and concerns as parenting, peer pressure, and the importance of getting involved on campus and in the community.
Four Basics Boxes. Presenting essay writing in manageable increments, these boxes break down the essentials of topics such as revision, good paragraphs, and argument. For traditional rhetorical modes, the Four Basics highlight essential features of all academic essays: a clear thesis, strong supporting points, substantially developed details, and a coherent organization.
Focus on the Four Most Serious Errors. Real Essays Essentials concentrates first on the four types of grammatical errors that matter most: fragments, run-ons, errors in subject-verb agreement, and errors of verb
tense and form, and helps students avoid making them. Once students master these four topics and start building their editing skills, they are better prepared to tackle the grammar errors treated in later chapters.
Questions for Reflection and Transfer. At the end of each of the rhetorical modes chapters, students are asked to reflect on what works and what does not work in their writing process, building metacognitive habits to promote transfer from one writing situation to the next. Students are also prompted to investigate how rhetorical modes are used in their intended majors and careers.
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Real Essays Essentials
First Edition| ©2018
Miriam Moore; Susan Anker
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Real Essays Essentials
First Edition| 2018
Miriam Moore; Susan Anker
Table of Contents
A Note for Students
Preface
PART ONE: College Thinking, Reading, and Writing
1. Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: Making Connections
2. Getting Ready to Write: Audience, Purpose, Form, and Process
3. Organizing Your Main Point and Support: Giving Ideas Structure
4. Drafting and Revising: Putting Your Ideas Together
PART TWO: Writing Different Kinds of Essays
5. Narration: Writing That tells Stories
6. Illustration: Writing That Shows Examples
7. Description: Writing That Creates Pictures with Words
8. Process Analysis: Writing That Explains How Things Happen
9. Classification: Writing That Sorts Things into Groups
10. Definition: Writing That Tells What Something Means
11. Comparison and Contrast: Writing That Shows Similarities and Differences
12. Cause and Effect: Writing That Explains Reasons or Results
13. Argument: Writing That Persuades
PART THREE: Doing Research
14. Research Essays: Using Outside Sources
PART FOUR: Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics
15. Basic Grammar: An Overview
16. The Four Most Serious Errors
17. Other Grammar and Style Concerns
18. Punctuation and Capitalization
Index
Useful Editing and Proofreading Marks
Authors

Susan Anker
Susan Anker (BA, MEd, Boston University) brings a unique perspective to the teaching of the developmental writing course. She taught English and developmental writing before entering college publishing, where she worked for eighteen years: as a sales representative and English/ESL editor at Macmillan Publishing Company; as developmental English/ESL editor, executive editor, and editor in chief at St. Martin’s Press; and as vice president and editor in chief for humanities at Houghton Mifflin Company. In each of these positions, she worked with developmental writing instructors and students, maintaining her early interest in the field. Since the publication of the first edition of Real Writing in 1998, Anker has traveled extensively to campuses across the country, continuing her conversations with instructors and students and giving workshops and presentations. She believes that the writing course is, for many students, their first, best opportunity to learn the skills they will need to succeed in college and achieve their goals.

Miriam Moore
Miriam Moore (BA, Baylor University; MA, PhD, University of South Carolina) discovered her passion for teaching over 20 years ago when, as a graduate student, she worked with ESL writers in a sheltered section of first-year composition. Since then, she has taught in a state university, an intensive English program, an industry-sponsored ESL program, and two community colleges. Whether teaching developmental writing, literacy, ESL grammar, reading, or first-year composition, her focus is the same: to introduce students to academic culture and provide instruction that will help them succeed in their academic programs. She is currently professor of English and ESL at Lord Fairfax Community College in Middletown, Virginia, where she is developing an expanded ESL program and leading the College’s implementation of the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) redesign of development English. In 2011-2012, she served on the team which developed the integrated curriculum for the VCCS redesign, and she has presented strategies for teaching developmental and ESL courses at local, state, regional, and national conferences.
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