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Achieve for Readers and Writers (1-Term Access; Multi-Course)

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Second  Edition©2020  Bedford/St. Martin's

ISBN:9781319525507

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Table of Contents

Welcome to Achieve for Readers and Writers
Diagnostics and Study Plans
Writing Assignments

OVERVIEW: READING
Reading Strategies
Understanding Vocabulary
Recognizing Patterns of Organization
Identifying Topics, Main Ideas, and Supporting Details
Reading Interpretively and Making Inferences
Reading Critically

DIRECTORY OF READINGS
Readings: Community, Family, and Identity
Readings: The Environment
Readings: Food
Readings: Language and Literacy
Readings: Psychology and Well-Being

OVERVIEW: WRITING
Topic, Audience, and Purpose
Organizing Ideas and Planning for Writing
Drafting a Thesis Statement
Drafting Paragraphs and Essays
Revising
Editing
Summarizing
Analyzing
Reading and Writing Arguments

OVERVIEW: RESEARCH
Working with Sources
Documentation Guides (MLA and APA)

OVERVIEW: PARTS OF SPEECH
Nouns
Articles and Nouns for Multilingual Writers
Pronouns
Verb Tense
Verbs for Multilingual Writers
Adjectives and Adverbs
Prepositions and Conjunctions
Prepositions and Idiomatic Verbs for Multilingual Writers

OVERVIEW: SENTENCES
Sentence Structure for Multilingual Writers
Subject-Verb Agreement
Fragments
Run-ons
Coordination and Subordination
Parallelism
Modifier Placement
Mixed and Incomplete Constructions
Active and Passive Voice

OVERVIEW: STYLE AND MECHANICS
Sentence Variety
Appropriate Language
Wordiness
Spelling
Commonly Confused Words
Abbreviations
Commas
Semicolons and Colons
Apostrophes
Quotation Marks
Capitalization
Italics
Hyphens
Acknowledgements

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