Mosaics: Reading and Writing Paragraphs, 8th edition

Published by Pearson (January 1, 2019) © 2020

  • Kim Flachmann California State University, Bakersfield
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Mosaics: Reading and Writing Paragraphs is your guide to discover and develop your own writing processes. The first in a 2-book series on reading and writing comprehension, the text will help you build confidence in your personal and academic writing by exploring relationships among thinking, reading, and writing on progressively more difficult levels. Acclaimed author Kim Flachmann demonstrates how these skills are integrated at every stage of communication and encourages you to discover how the “mosaics” of your own reading and writing processes work together to form a coherent whole.

The 8th Edition features an intuitive reorganization of content and a new design that better supports the material. Several new reading selections are also included to help you prepare for success in college and beyond.

PART I: Reading and Writing for Success in College

  1. Reading and Writing as Critical Thinking
  2. Reading Critically
  3. Writing Critically
  4. Revising and Editing

PART II: Essays: Paragraphs in Context

  1. How to Read an Essay
  2. How to Write an Essay
  3. Writing Workshop

PART III: Reading and Writing Effective Paragraphs

  1. Describing
  2. Narrating
  3. Illustrating
  4. Analyzing a Process
  5. Comparing and Contrasting
  6. Dividing and Classifying
  7. Defining
  8. Analyzing Causes and Effects
  9. Arguing

PART IV: The Handbook

  1. Parts of Speech
  2. Phrases and Clauses
  3. Subjects and Verbs
  4. Fragments
  5. Fused Sentences and Comma Splices
  6. Regular and Irregular Verbs
  7. Verb Tense
  8. Subject-Verb Agreement
  9. More on Verbs
  10. Pronoun Problems
  11. Pronoun Reference and Point of View
  12. Pronoun Agreement
  13. Adjectives
  14. Adverbs
  15. Modifier Errors
  16. End Punctuation
  17. Commas
  18. Apostrophes
  19. Quotation Marks
  20. Other Punctuation Marks
  21. Capitalization
  22. Abbreviations and Numbers
  23. Varying Sentence Structure
  24. Parallelism
  25. Combining Sentences
  26. Standard and Nonstandard English
  27. Easily Confused Words
  28. Spelling

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