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Resources for Corequisite Composition Courses, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (September 25, 2019) © 2020

  • Kathleen T. McWhorter Niagara County Community College

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For English Composition courses in need of extensive prerequisite support and institutions in need of a corequisite solution. 

Help students build the baseline skills needed for success as college writers

Resources for Corequisite Composition Courses fosters the reading, critical-thinking and writing skills essential for college success. Designed to accompany any credit-bearing composition course, the program emphasizes contextualized learning with an integrated approach to reading and writing. Students will build basic vocabulary and comprehension competence and an understanding of inferential and critical reading and thinking, as they learn to analyze and write arguments and documented papers.

1st Edition coverage empowers students to read digital texts critically and identify fake news.

Hallmark features of this title

  • Reading Level Module diagnostics chart initial reading levels (with a Lexile Locator Test) and track growth with assessments tied to 20 readings.
  • Reading strategies and activities throughout teach students to analyze, evaluate, make inferences, identify author techniques and biases.
  • Writing practice includes 14 activities, prewriting, drafting, revising, structuring an essay, identifying, integrating and quoting trusted sources in plagiarism-free, documented papers (with MLA or APA style guidelines).
  • Annotated model essays explain features and reinforce chapter concepts.
  • 8 Reading and Writing Modules offer activities and post-tests to apply content and check learning.
  • 4 Study Skills Modules teach growth mindset, learning skills and digital literacy.
  • Free download: The Pearson Guide to the 2021 MLA Handbook.

Features of MyLab Reading and Writing Skills for the 1st Edition

  • The Path Builder tool diagnoses strengths and weaknesses and offers practice and multi-modal activities targeted to each student's needs.
  • A Locator Test diagnoses each student's reading ability (using the Lexile® Framework), then provides level-appropriate readings, practice, and periodic diagnostic tests that incrementally adjust to their changing reading level with precision.
  • 14 Writing Activities in the Writing Practice Module with Instant Feedback offer an optional, automated evaluation of writing content before students submit those assignments for grading.
  • Electronic scoring provides feedback in 6 areas: Ideas, Organization, Conventions, Fluency, Word Choice, and Voice; as well as a Spelling and Grammar check. The online Writing Advisor offers further suggestions in each area for self-remediation.
  • 15 ESL Modules, covering Reading, Listening and Grammar, provide practice with increasing levels of difficulty. Each module begins with an Audio Overview and Animation, continues with 3 Practice Exercises, and ends with a Post-test.
  1. The Reading Process 
  2. The Writing Process
  3. Vocabulary for Readers and Writers
  4. Main Ideas and Topic Sentences
  5. Supporting Details, Transitions, and Implied Main Ideas
  6. Revising and Proofreading Paragraphs
  7. Reading and Writing Organizational Patterns
  8. Writing Essays and Documented Papers
  9. Critical Thinking: Reading and Writing
  10. Analyzing Issues and Argument

About our author

Kathleen T. McWhorter is the author of more than a dozen textbooks designed to help students succeed in college.She received her Ed.D. from SUNY Buffalo and taught at Niagara County Community College in Sanborn, NY, where she is now a professor emerita for humanities. Through her texts, she has helped an estimated 500,000 students improve their reading, writing, and critical thinking skills.

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