Spotlight on Paragraph and Essay Skills

For college and university composition classes focusing on paragraphs. This indigenous first edition text will be the middle book in the sentence-paragraph-essay, 3-book series. The content is based on material the author has written and used over the course of 30 years of teaching. Both the approach and much of the extensive instructional content (including pre-tests, exercises, group activities, and writing assignments) have been field tested over a number of years with college students. Spotlight on Paragraph and Essay Skills develops proficiency in the fundamentals of paragraph and essay writing for college students. It also provides extensive background building in the essentials of English grammar. This material is designed to provide postsecondary students with an introduction to the practices common in academic writing, instruction on clarity in the sequence of presentation, challenging exercises, which develop critical thinking, and many opportunities to practice and apply core concepts.