About this Book
Putting the Pieces Together: Reason and Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines a comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition.
Organization
This textbook is divided into four major units and three appendices designed to guide first-year college students who have a high school education or equivalency and support non-native English speakers through the steps toward proficiency in English writing for Canadian college success.
Unit 1: Writing Content
Unit 2: Writing Organization
Unit 3: Writing Style
Unit 4: Writing Mechanics
Appendices
Appendix A: Appendix A: Writing Supports for EAP
Appendix B: Appendix B: Examples of Essays
Appendix C: Appendix C: Documentation
Beginning with the sentence and its essential elements, this book addresses each concept with clear, concise, and effective examples that are immediately reinforced with exercises and opportunities to demonstrate and reinforce learning.
Each unit allows students to demonstrate mastery of the principles of quality writing. With its incremental approach, it can address a range of writing levels and abilities, helping each student in your course prepare for their next writing or university course. Examples and exercises constantly reinforce learning. The text involves students in the learning process through reading, problem-solving, practicing, listening, and experiencing the writing process.
Each chapter also has integrated examples that unify the discussion and form a common, easy-to-understand basis for discussion and exploration. This will put students at ease, and allow for greater absorption of the material.
Writting Tips
Every chapter includes tips for effective writing, as well. Thought-provoking scenarios provide challenges and opportunities for collaboration and interaction. These exercises are especially helpful if group work is incorporated when teaching WRIT. Clear exercises teach sentence and paragraph writing skills that lead to common English composition and research essays.
Connecting the Pieces: Writing at Work
In addition, many chapters also contain a section entitled “Connecting the Pieces: Writing at Work,” whereby aspects of academic and essay writing are highlighted in order to demonstrate their application to professional and work-related communication skills.
Features
- Exercises are integrated into each segment. Each concept is immediately reinforced as soon as it is introduced to keep students on track.
- Exercises are designed to facilitate interaction and collaboration. This allows for peer-to-peer engagement, the development of interpersonal skills, and the promotion of critical thinking skills.
- Exercises that involve self-editing and collaborative writing are featured. This feature develops and promotes student interest in the areas and content.
- There are clear internal summaries and effective displays of information. This contributes to easy access to information and increases your students’ ability to locate the desired content.
- Rule explanations are simplified with clear, relevant, and theme-based examples. This feature provides context that will facilitate learning and increase knowledge retention.
There is an obvious structure at the unit and chapter levels. Because the text order is based on the sections of the WRIT curriculum rubric for instruction, this allows for easy adaptation to your existing and changing course needs or assessment outcomes.
