Writing Talk: Writing Sentences and Paragraphs with Readings

by Anthony C. Winkler, JoRay McCuen-Matherell

There are many different ways in which developing writers learn. Winkler and McCuen-Matherall have created a writing series that takes into account many of the known difficulties that developing writing students have with English language skills and strategies. Writing Sentences & Paragraphs with Readings, 5/e is the first book in a series of two. This text reaches more students by providing the most varied practice exercises of any writing text. Every unit contains Practice Exercises, Unit Tests, Unit Talk-Write Exercises, Unit Collaborative Assignments, Unit Writing Assignments, and Photo Writing Assignments. These diverse exercises will help students of all types (including visual, audio, and collaborative learners) learn and retain the material.

552 pages, Paperback

First published December 23, 1996

About the author

Anthony C. Winkler was a successful Jamaican novelist and popular contributor to many post-secondary English literary texts.

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Reviews

[Nicole · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. I'm new to this whole teaching thing, so I figured I'd have a tough time deciding which textbooks to use. For this particular book, that wasn't the case--I didn't love it. I'm not even sure I liked it. The layout is actually pretty good, and just flipping through it I wanted to like it. But once I started reading I noticed it spends a lot of time and energy separating ESL students (rule-followers with syntax issues?) from native English speakers (who have an ear for the language but an unfortunate tendency to write in slang?) and it feels like it's segregating any potential class using it into two very distinct categories from the get-go. Which doesn't sit well with me. I'm not working with two separate groups of students, so why run the class this way?