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The Writing Skill Builder for College Freshmen
The Writing Skill Builder for College Freshmen Author:Joy F. Beckford The Writing Skill Builder for College Freshmen is a one-of-a-kind hands-on student's companion to better collegiate writing. In comparison to other rhetorical pedagogy, it is a reader-friendly helper that targets specific weak areas of writing to help alleviate the frustration that a number of students encounter in college writing, especially in... more » the first few semesters. It is specifically written to help learners like one of my students who held up the handbook (a reader-friendly one) recommended for English 101 after mid-semester and asked, "Professor Beckford, where can I get a simpler book to improve my writing?" Furthermore, the exercises provide a sense of familiarity to ensure immediate connection with phrasings, and brief lectures are included before each set, with a questioning approach to foster better understanding in correcting repetitive, fundamental errors crucial to success in academic writing. The passages included are selected with care not only to accommodate practice but also to teach valuable lessons in writing clearly to connect to real-world experience. To be also teacher-friendly, a few essay assignments are linked to certain exercises to correlate with Composition 101 course requirements.« less