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Mosaics: Focusing on Sentences in Context, 3/e

BASIC APPROACH

(Note: This textbook was published by our college division for use by students at post-secondary institutions whose writing skills are below the level needed to succeed in college English. Please review this text carefully to ensure appropriateness of content for your students.)

Students study their own writing! Part of a three-level developmental series that integrates critical thinking, reading, writing, revising, and editing, this text teaches the processes and skills common to all good academic writing.

FEATURES

• Four-unit format.
  • Covers The Writing Process, Writing Effective Sentences, Sentences in Context, and Readings.
  • Offers instructors more choice and flexibility in their courses.
• Full-color design.
  • Allows students to identify key elements and concepts more easily and provides a more engaging entry to the material.
• Writing process coverage.
  • Constantly reinforces the most important element of writing—the process.
  • In addition to the six chapters in Part I, emphasizes the important techniques of the writing process in Part II with revising and editing activities and in Part III with Revising Checklists and Editing Checklists.
• Three levels of grammar exercises.
  • Provide practice for every grammar/usage concept in Part II, Writing Effective Sentences.
  • Allows students to identify and correct grammar mistakes, as well as write their own mistake-free sentences.
• A minimum of terminology in the handbook section.
  • Keeps the emphasis on using grammar rather than labeling it.
  • Provides an introduction with terms and explanations for reference in the Introduction of Part II.
• Over 100 exercise sets in the handbook section.
  • Gives students ample opportunity to practice the grammar/usage rules, including recognizing sentence errors in context.
  • Includes full paragraphs to edit.
• Focus on paragraphs.
  • Helps students study sentences in their natural context.
  • Brings student learning to the next level by addressing what they will see in their reading and use in their writing.
• Unit reviews.
  • Provides unit reviews and tests for each of the eight units in Part II.
  • Offers students the opportunity to test their knowledge over several chapters as they progress through a section.
• Extensive Instructor Support: Annotated Instructor's Edition/Instructor's Resource Manual/Instructor CD with Kim Flachmann Video—Co-written by Kim Flachmann, the AIE has in-text answers and marginal annotations, the IRM has syllabi, chapter quizzes, additional activities and teaching tips, and the Instructor CD-ROM provides video of the author talking about how to use her books.
• Accuracy Initiative: Prentice Hall has hired nSight, Inc. to perform a three-step accuracy check on the MOSAICS Series, making the text as error-free as possible.
  • Accurate and error-free texts are the most reliable teaching tools for students and instructors.

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