Patterns: A Short Prose Reader

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Conlin, Mary Lou

Words, Language & Grammar

Houghton Mifflin School

The Seventh Edition of Patterns Plus features 88 short selections. Arranged rhetorically, each chapter covers a different pattern of development reinforced by extensive guidance, as well as sample paragraphs and essays. Two alternative tables of contents (Thematic and Writing Across the Curriculum) provide instructors with the flexibility to choose readings according to their own lesson plan and students' needs.The introductory chapter provides in-depth treatment of the writing process plus more discussion of collaborative writing.Internet-based assignments encourage students to access the Web to research and then write about a range of topics.

Patterns plus: A short prose reader with argumentation

Houghton/Mifflin

Patterns plus: A short prose reader with argumentation [paperback] Conlin, Mary Lou [Jan 01, 1987] ...

Close to 100 lively, entertaining reading selections by such authors as Russell Baker, Wendel Berry, Agatha Christie, Alistair Cooke, Isak Dinesen, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, Jr., Paul Theroux, Alice Walker, and E.B. White, as well as selections b student writers.  Also included are Clear presentation of basic rhetorical strategies for writing effective paragraphs and short essays.  You will find annotated samples to help introduce and explain each rhetorical mode and lastly full apparatus for each paragraph and essay-length reading selection, including "Words to Know," "Questions about the reading," "Questions about the Writer's Strategy," and "Writing Assignments."

Patterns: A short prose reader

Literature & Fiction

Houghton, Mifflin Co.

A short-essay reader. This anthology of short essays and paragraphs provides a mix of non-fiction, fiction, and student essays, with consideration of multicultural issues.

Designed to provide students with a basic understanding of paragraph and essay writing, this rhetorically arranged reader contains paragraphs and short essays by professional and student writers alike. Patterns is organized around eight rhetorical methods, with additional chapters on fundamental writing skills and combining the modes. Each chapter offers a substantial introduction to the pattern, and extensive apparatus surrounds every selection.

Houghton Mifflin College Div.

Patterns Plus: A Short Prose Reader With Argumentation

The Seventh Edition of Patterns Plus features 88 short selections. Arranged rhetorically, each chapter covers a different pattern of development reinforced by extensive guidance, as well as sample paragraphs and essays. Two alternative tables of contents (Thematic and Writing Across the Curriculum) provide instructors with the flexibility to choose readings according to their own lesson plan and students' needs.
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<li>The introductory chapter provides in-depth treatment of the writing process plus more discussion of collaborative writing.</li>
<li>Internet-based assignments encourage students to access the Web to research and then write about a range of topics.</li>
</ul>

In the course of his productive lifetime, Simon Perkins (1771-1844) was a surveyor, land agent, soldier, canal commissioner, insurance agent, banker, public official, educator, city founder, Indian negotiator, and an extensive land owner and philanthropist. His activities include involvement in the War of 1812, the Erie Land Company, the Ohio Canal, and the founding of the city of Akron. Based on original papers and records, including the extensive Perkins collection at the historical society, this is still the best available account of the Connecticut Land Company and the mode of determining ownership of the land in the Western Reserve. The author, an educator on the Greater Cleveland area, has written on a variety of historical topics.

Simon Perkins of the Western Reserve

Biographies & Memoirs

Western Reserve Historical Society,U.S.

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Patterns: A Short Prose Reader

Patterns plus: A short prose reader with argumentation

Patterns plus: A short prose reader with argumentation

Patterns: A short prose reader

Patterns plus: A short prose reader with argumentation

Patterns: A short prose reader

Patterns: A Short Prose Reader

Patterns Plus: A Short Prose Reader With Argumentation

Patterns Plus: A Short Prose Reader With Argumentation

Simon Perkins of the Western Reserve