Adventures in Composition: Improving Writing Skills Through Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780472032044)

Adventures in Composition is designed to help students develop their academic and paragraph writing skills through the examination of short stories of some well-known writers. These stories will hold the students' interest as they explore writing from a new perspective--learning to use the work of good writers as a guide. The types of writing featured and taught are narrative, description, comparison and contrast, and expository.

Each chapter features a Writing Basics section (e.g., compound sentences, subject-verb agreement, transitions) and pre-writing activities (e.g., outlining) followed by three writing assignments. Students learn the features of each type of writing and have many opportunities to practice and develop their reading and writing skills. Peer evaluation and editing are strongly encouraged.

Adventures in Composition includes the work of Guy de Maupassant, O. Henry, Shirley Jackson, Katherine Mansfield, W. Somerset Maugham, William Saroyan, and Oscar Wilde.


Author: Judith Kay,Rosemary Gelshenen
ISBN-10: 0472032046
ISBN-13: 9780472032044
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2007
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.99h x 7.15w x 0.57d