Writing Workshop: Promoting College Success - Softcover

Guide to Strategies. Preface. Tips for Teachers. WORKSHOP ONE: INTERPRETING A TEXT. Reading Selection: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (a movie review). Night (a short story by Bret Lott). Strategies: Interpreting. Analyzing. Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Using Context. Quickwriting. Organizing Ideas. Evaluating. Revising. Grammar Workshop 1: a) adjective clauses b) appositives. WORKSHOP TWO: SUMMARIZING NONFICTION. Reading Selection: Friends, Good Friends--And Such Good Friends (an essay by Judith Viorst). Strategies: Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Using Context. Making Your Thesis Clear. Analyzing. Summarizing. Evaluating. Revising. Grammar Workshop 2: 1) noun clauses with "that" b) reported speech. WORKSHOP THREE: WRITING IN RESPONSE TO READING. Reading Selection: Sample essay responses. Strategies: Paraphrasing. Analyzing. Comparing. Writing Margin Notes. Evaluating. Quickwriting. Making Your Thesis Clear. Organizing Ideas. Evaluating. Revising. Grammar Workshop 3: 1) it's + adjective + infinitive b) gerunds as subjects. WORKSHOP FOUR: INCORPORATING OTHER' IDEAS INTO YOUR WRITING. Reading Selection: Seven Keys to Learning (a magazine article). Strategies: Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Using Context. Analyzing. Using Quotations. Citing Sources. Paraphrasing. Synthesizing. Revising. Grammar Workshop 4: 1) adverb clauses b) reduced adverb clauses. WORKSHOP FIVE: USING WRITING TO UNDERSTAND A TEXT. Reading Selection: Stimulating Beverages (a science textbook excerpt). Strategies: Previewing. Analyzing. Identifying the Writer's Thesis. Using Context. Writing Margin Notes. Underlining. Quickwriting. Revising. Grammar Workshop 5: a) word forms b) rearranging information c) sentence beginnings. WORKSHOP SIX: RESPONDING TO EXAM QUESTIONS. Reading Selection: Sample exam responses. Strategies: Analyzing. Evaluating. Synthesizing. Organizing Ideas. Grammar Workshop 6: a) parallel forms b) conjunctive adverbs. WORKSHOP SEVEN: REPORTING ON RESEARCH. Reading Selection: Working with Gilly (an academic report). Strategies: Applying What You Know. Classifying. Previewing. Writing Margin Notes. Taking Notes. Analyzing. Revising. Grammar Workshop 7: sentence variety. WORKSHOP EIGHT: PASSING A WRITING TEST. Reading Selection: Sample writing test responses. Strategies: Analyzing. Making Your Thesis Clear. Appendix: Reference Guide. Answers: Grammar Workshops. Credits.