Pathways

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• Part VI: A Thematic Reader. The previous multicultural reader has been replaced with three pairs of themed readings that offer students interesting topics to write about and give instructors alternative reading and writing assignments.
• The themes include dating and relationships, surveillance monitoring, and bullying/cyberbullying.
• Each theme concludes with a section, “Critical Reading and Writing:  Thinking About a Pair of Readings,” which encourages students to analyze and synthesize ideas.
• Writer’s Workshop on Using Visuals in Student Writing.  Both print and visual resources are becoming increasingly visual, with instructors encouraging students to incorporate visuals into their own writing. In response, this set of workshops emphasizes:
• the function of visuals in text.
• the use of visuals to support student writing.methods for finding effective visuals.
• ethical use of visuals.
• context and captions to accompany visuals.
• Writers’ Workshops on Digital Literacy.  Because digital literacy is now expected of all college students, a new set of workshops equip beginning college writers with skills, strategies, and resources for online writing and research. The workshops include:
• basic need-to-know information and sources of help with computer literacy.
• strategies for evaluating online sources.
• advice for effective online communication and self-presentation.
• useful websites for college writers.
• Eight new Professional Readings. Topics include the allocation of donor kidneys, arranged marriages in Afghanistan, the ethics of killing in war, parenthood, sports, food waste in America, going off the technology grid, and lying.
• Eight new Student Essays. These demonstrate the skills taught in the relevant chapters and present good models of academic writing. The essays engage students with current issues such as reality TV, professional athletes as role models, social media, and post-graduation employment.
• Online Mastery Tests. For each chapter, an online mastery test will be available to use for additional practice or assessment.
• Handbook Exercises in MyWritingLab™. These exercises will link the handbook to supplemental online exercises for numerous topics within the Part VII:  Reviewing the Basics.
• For the first time ever, students can access essay coverage chapters from Kathleen McWhorter’s other writing book, Expressways: Scenarios for Paragraph and Essay Writing, Third Edition, in the Pathways, Fourth Edition book-specific module! This enables students who are ready at any time during the semester to transition to essay writing, basically giving students access to content for two books / writing courses!

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This title is also available with MyWritingLab – an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.

NOTE: Both Brief and Comprehensive Tables of Contents are listed below.

 

 

BRIEF CONTENTS

 

Part I:  Getting Started 

 1.     An Introduction to Writing 

 2.     The Reading-Writing Connection

 

Part II:  Sentence Basics and Development 

 4.     Complete Sentences Versus Fragments 

 5.     Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices 

 6.     Combining and Expanding Your Ideas 

 7.     Using Adjectives and Adverbs to Describe 

 8.     Using Modifiers to Add Detail 

         Writers’ Workshops: Using Language Effectively 

 

Part III:  Common Sentence Problems and How to Avoid Them 

 9.     Revising Confusing and Inconsistent Sentences 

 10.    Using Verbs Correctly 

         Writers’ Workshops: Digital Literacy in the Wired Classroom 

 

Part IV:         Paragraph Basics, Development, and Revision 

 11.    Planning and Organizing 

 12.    Drafting and Revising 

 13.    Developing, Arranging, and Connecting Details 

 14.    Using Methods of Organization 

         Writers’ Workshops: Using Visuals in Your Writing 

 15.    Revising Paragraphs 

 

Part V:           Essay Basics, Development, and Common Problems 

 16.    Essay Basics and Development 

 17.    Avoiding Common Problems in Essays 

 

Part VI:   A Thematic Reader 

 

Part VII:  Reviewing the Basics

 

 

COMPREHENSIVE CONTENTS

 

Part I: GETTING STARTED

 

Chapter 1.    An Introduction to Writing 

         Writing        Understanding What Writing Is and Is Not 

                  Beginning Tips for Generating Ideas 

                  Beginning Tips for Organizing Your Ideas 

NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyWritingLab™ does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyWritingLab search for:

0321990951 / 9780321990952  Pathways: Scenarios for Sentence and Paragraph Writing Plus MyWritingLab with Pearson eText – Access Card

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• 0321974166 / 9780321974167  Pathways: Scenarios for Sentence and Paragraph Writing, 4e

For courses in Developmental Writing.

A lively, integrated approach that emphasizes the connection of the reading and writing processes
Pathways: Scenarios for Paragraph and Sentence Writing, Fourth Edition teaches fundamental sentence and paragraph writing skills by engaging student interest, maintaining a focus on expressing ideas rather than on following rules.

Students learn grammar in the context of the “whole paper.” Seven of the 17 chapters deal with grammar topics; in these chapters, students examine student essays, read and respond to ideas, and write and revise paragraphs. In Parts II through IV, students apply what they have learned about sentence-level correctness to their own writing as they explore logical paragraph development and organization of ideas. The last two chapters introduce essay writing, enabling students to accelerate from paragraphs to essays, with the goal of achieving stronger, more fully developed writing skills.

Also Available with MyWritingLab™
This title is also available with MyWritingLab – an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.

An emphasis on grammar and correctness in the context of the “whole paper.”

• Seven chapters are devoted to grammar topics and providing an in-text handbook written with the needs of ESL students in mind. 

Focus on the reading and writing process

• Interconnected “Writing in Progress” exercises build on each other throughout the course of each chapter, walking students through the different steps of the writing process from prewriting, through drafting, writing using different modes, and revision.
• Stressing the importance of the connection(s) among reading-writing-critical thinking, McWhorter presents strategies for active reading as early as Chapter 2 and carries this throughout the text using professional readings in each chapter.
• “Examine It!” sections use annotated paragraphs by professional writers and textbook authors to illustrate the different methods of organization and show the major elements needed to writing a paragraph using a specific pattern of organization.
• “Analyze It” features, introduced in Chapter 2, prompt students to analyze a particular paragraph and apply the skills they have learned by completing an idea map, figuring out the meaning of vocabulary, or correcting sentence and grammar errors.
• Theme-based paragraph writing scenarios in Chapters 2-18 contains a set of writing assignments grouped into four categories (friends and family, classes and campus life, working students, and communities and cultures) that give students the opportunity to apply chapter content while exploring a relevant theme.
• An entire chapter (Chapter 3) is devoted to vocabulary development.
• Student essays in Parts III through VI provide models of the writing process and set realistic, attainable expectations for students.

• NEW! Interactive Thinking Guide (ITG). Many students fail to interact with text as they read–instead, they allow ideas to pass in front of them without taking them from the page or screen and subjecting them to examination and analysis. To address this, the unique Interactive Thinking Guide demonstrates the thought processes that should occur while reading.
• Marginal questions interspersed throughout each professional reading model this thinking. The Guide for a reading may encourage students to connect the reading to their own experience, examine the flow of ideas, recognize connections between and among ideas and images, or analyze the writer’s technique, for example.
• Questions guide students in the areas listed below. A sample guide question for each is included:
• Activating Prior Knowledge:  What do you already know about XXX?
• Previewing:  What idea does the title promise that the reading will address?
• Predicting:  Predict the author’s attitude toward her subject.
• Examining Features of Writing:  Is this the conclusion you expected?
• Factual Recall:  Give an example of XXX.
• Critical Analysis:  Do you agree with the author’s opinion of XXX?
• Word Meaning and Choice:  Does this word have positive or negative connotations?
• Visuals and Images:  Is it odd to begin a reading with a photograph?
• Thinking while reading strengthens factual recall, promotes critical thinking, and enables students to generate ideas to write about.  This Guide, by modeling the types of thinking that should occur while reading, will enable students to develop their own questions and become active readers, prepared to write in response to reading.
• NEW! Part VI: A Thematic Reader. The previous multicultural reader has been replaced with three pairs of themed readings that of

For courses in Developmental Writing.

A lively, integrated approach that emphasizes the connection of the reading and writing processes
Pathways: Scenarios for Paragraph and Sentence Writing, Fourth Edition teaches fundamental sentence and paragraph writing skills by engaging student interest, maintaining a focus on expressing ideas rather than on following rules.

Students learn grammar in the context of the “whole paper.” Seven of the 17 chapters address grammar; in these chapters, students examine student essays, read and respond to ideas, and write and revise paragraphs. In Parts II through IV, students apply what they have learned about sentence-level correctness to their own writing as they explore logical paragraph development and organization of ideas. The last two chapters in the print book and access to the e-chapters from Expressways, Third Edition in the book-specific module introduce essay writing, enabling students accelerate to essays, with the goal of achieving stronger, more fully developed writing skills and preparing them for English Composition.

Also Available with MyWritingLab™
This title is also available with MyWritingLab — an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.

Additional information

Dimensions	1.00 × 8.50 × 10.80 in
Imprint	Pearson
Format	gen
ISBN-13	09780321974167
ISBN-10	0321974166
Author	Kathleen T. McWhorter
Subjects	higher education, Language Arts / Literacy, Developmental English, Developmental Writing