Get Ready to Write: A First Composition Text (2nd Edition)

Set your students on the right course with the second edition of Get Ready to Write, by Karen Blanchard and Christine Root. With its student-centered approach, this edition teaches beginning students the basic composition skills required for good writing and helps them to become confident and independent writers. Features *Model paragraphs that illustrate organizing elements such as topic sentences, supporting details, and signal words *Guided practice in writing sentences and paragraphs *New Real Life Writing tasks provide relevant writing contexts *Editing exercises that help students develop accuracy *New Appendices: the English alphabet, penmanship, punctuation rules, and irregular verbs. The Ready to Write series also includes Ready to Write and Ready to Write More.