Mosaics : Reading and Writing Paragraphs / Kim Flachmann

Includes Index.

Reading and writing as critical -- Reading critically -- Writing critically -- Revising and editing -- Describing -- Narrating -- Illustrating -- Analyzing a process -- Comparing and contrasting -- Dividing and classifying -- Defining -- Analyzing causes and effects -- Arguing -- How to read an essay -- How to write an essay -- Writing workshop -- Parts of speech -- Phrases and clauses -- Subjects and verbs -- Fragments -- Fused sentences and comma splices -- Regular and irregular verbs -- Verb tense -- Subject/verb agreement -- More on verbs -- Pronoun problems -- Pronoun reference and point of view -- Pronoun agreement -- Adjectives -- Adverbs -- Modifier errors -- Commas -- Apostrophes -- Quotation marks -- Other punctuation marks -- Capitalization -- Abbreviations and numbers -- Varying sentence structure -- Parallelism -- Combining sentences -- Standard and nonstandard English -- Easily confused words -- Spelling.

This book helps students discover and develop their own writing processes. The first in a two-book series on reading and writing comprehension, Mosaics: Reading and Writing Paragraphs seeks to help students build confidence in their personal and academic writing by exploring the relationship among thinking, reading, and writing on progressively more difficult levels. Acclaimed author Kim Flachmann demonstrates how these skills are integrated at every stage of communication, and encourages students to discover how the “mosaics” of their own reading and writing processes work together to form a coherent whole. The 8th Edition features intuitive reorganization of content, a new design that better supports the material, and a number of new reading selections–helping students prepare for success in college and in their lives after graduation.