In Harmony: Reading and Writing, 3rd edition
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📚 Delivered within 24 hours via email In Harmony offers you integrated thematic instruction at the sentence and paragraph level. Each chapter is presented in the context of a resonant theme, designed to engage you with topics such as interpersonal relationships, living between 2 worlds, and digital communication. Student and professional essays start each chapter and serve as the basis for instruction, illustration and practice. Author Kathleen McWhorter emphasizes critical thinking throughout, which will prepare you for your college courses and beyond.
The 3rd Edition is the first text in a 2-part series that illustrates reading and writing as a single process of understanding and expressing ideas, which really do work together in harmony. This volume concentrates on sentences and paragraphs; In Concert explores paragraphs and essays.
Published by Pearson (July 14th 2021) – Copyright © 2022
ISBN-13: 9780137402496
Subject: Developmental English
Category: Integrated Reading & Writing
Description
Table of Contents
PART ONE – GETTING STARTED
- An Overview of the Reading Process (with Writing)
- An Overview of the Writing Process (with Reading)
- Vocabulary: Working with Words
PART TWO – READING AND WRITING PARAGRAPHS
- Main Ideas and Topic Sentences
- Details, Transitions, and Implied Main Ideas
- Patterns of Organization: Chronological Order, Process, Narration, and Description
- Patterns of Organization: Example, Cause and Effect, and Comparison and Contrast
- Revision and Proofreading
PART THREE – READING, WRITING, AND REVISING ESSAYS
- Reading and Thinking Critically About Text
- Reading and Writing Essays
PART FOUR – SENTENCE BASICS AND GRAMMAR ESSENTIALS
- Complete Sentences Versus Sentence Fragments
- Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices
- Using Verbs Correctly
- Combining and Expanding Your Ideas
- Revising Confusing and Inconsistent Sentences
- A Brief Grammar Handbook
