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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.042
EAN num: 9780070625358
ISBN number: 0070625352
Label: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: January 01, 1994
Publishing house: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Studio: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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This highly regarded text helps developmental writing students strengthen their writing skills and understand some of the stylistic choices available to them in written English. Simply put, sentence combining involves putting short, choppy sentences together to make more interesting, readable ones. In the process, students learn the importance of sentence variety in improving syntax. Students are able to explore a variety of ways to say something in writing and learn that there is not a single 'right' way to express their point. SENTENCE COMBINING features an accessible and humorous writing style, along with innovative and thoroughly tested exercises which not only allow students to flex their creative muscles, but also offer them insights into current topics and issues. New to this edition are two end-of-text appendices on sentence combining, the writing process and sentence and paragraph strategies.
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This is a great book although, amazon never delivered. I had ordered this book 2 weeks before school(along with 2 other books for school), it never came. Amazon said that i have an "undeliverable" address, but when i ordered it from ebay i got it in 3 dAys! Then i had to wait forever for a refund!
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Sentence Combining Third Edition is the most overpriced book I have ever seen! The price of text books, or any book commonly used in college class rooms, are overpriced in my opinion and this is admittedly a pet peeve of mine, but this book is the worst! I was distraught about the price when I very first saw it but didn't think too much about it since it is, I thought, a text book. After I bought it and started using it I became incredibly upset about the price. It is arguably not a text book it is just a collection of short stories chopped up into short, single line sentences that students are suppose to combine into reasonable length sentences. The idea is fine and the theory is probably a good one (though incredibly boring to do in my opinion) but this is the type of book that would serve perfectly well, better in my opinion, on inexpensive paper with an inexpensive binding. It would serve much better if it were made and sold inexpensively enough to not feel bad about marking up and highlighting right in the book; something I wouldn't think of doing in a $30 book of only 235 pages. The one good thing about this book is that it has finally gotten me to actually speaking out and, hopefully doing something about the ridiculous price of text books changed students who can little afford to bear the financial burden of keeping text book publishers profits high. On top of that the smallest possible amount of change is made practically every year and the new edition does nothing except make all previous editions outdated so you can't keep your books in good condition and pass them on to younger siblings or friends. As you can tell I am upset about the amount of money a student must put out for books, but I am considerably more upset about having to put out $30 for Sentence Combining than I am about having to put out $155 for my math textbook. At least the math text is about 1000 pages and used every day. Sentence Combining is, as I mentioned, 235 pages and used less that once a week, AND we are already a third of the way through it and much less than a third of the way through the semester. OK, enough, if you can borrow it from the library or a friend I'd certainly do it. You probably won't need it more than an hour or less a week.
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The third edition of Sentence Combining just arrived. I can't wait to get to class Tuesday to start my students on these exercises! William Strong wrote another book about writing development, Coaching Writing, that I purchased at a writing workshop. The discusion of sentence combining as a development technique excited my teaching, but I don't have time (or energy) to prepare sentences for use with the technique. Sentence Combining fills that slot perfectly. This activity greatly improved my student's ability to revise their writing. They were able to see that revision is a process. For some it was a true "ah ha!" moment! The techique I found in the very first section of Coaching Writing is the focus of Sentence Combining A Composing Book. I can't praise these two books enough. Every English teacher at my high school has heard me praise William Strong's work, and several have adopted his strategies. You can't go wrong with this purchase.
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This book is a classic now, and it should be. Research in writing instruction has demonstrated that students who work on sentence combining do improve as writers. The book presents the student with short kernel sentences to combine into longer, more complex structures. In combining, students stretch into learning to control sentences for length, pace, and complexity. When they edit their sentences, they practice the revision skills good writers all use. I have used this book successfully with remedial and entry level college students; it would also be appropriate for high school students and advanced intermediate students. It is not a technical grammar text, and can be useful without a sophisticated knowledge of grammar. The selections are engaging and are effectively presented in order of difficulty. This would be a useful text for home schoolers at the high school level.
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