Ready to Write: A First Composition Text

Abstract

Presenting paragraph development in clear, teachable steps, Ready to Write prepares high-beginning and low-intermediate students for the fundamental composition skills needed for successful academic work. Through a clear progression of learning tasks, Ready to Write provides these benefits: Presents important organizational principles of good academic writing such as topic sentences, supporting details, ordering of details, identifying and eliminating irrelevancies, and transition words. Helps students apply these organizational principles to major rhetorical forms, among them comparing and contrasting, describing, reporting, giving information, analyzing, and letter writing. Contextualizes writing in real-world tasks such as letters, reports, exams, articles for newsletters, and advertising copy.