وصف الكتاب | The Fourth Edition of AT A GLANCE. PARAGRAPHS guides students through the process of prewriting, paragraph structure, and developing a paragraph in specific and combined rhetorical modes. This text features new readings, optional text based writing instruction, a chapter on writing the short essay, a brief handbook, and an emphasis on critical thinking. |
عن المؤلف | Lee Brandon is the author of twelve college English textbooks with Cengage Learning, including the best selling series, Sentences, Paragraphs, and Beyond with Integrated Readings, and Paragraphs and Essays with Integrated Readings and the highly successful At a Glance series. He has served as chair of the English Department at Mt. San Antonio College, where he taught for more than thirty years and occasionally still teaches. Few authors are as active in the promotion of their books as Lee Brandon, who regularly visits schools across the country and presents at professional conferences. Lee also has to his credit poems and short stories in magazines; songs recorded and in sheet music; a best selling musical play for elementary school students (in print with Lorenz Music); a play produced by a college drama department; a published Ford Foundation grant project; a chapbook of ballads about his youth, Oklahoma, My Sweet Sorrow; a chapbook of ballads about his experience teaching for ten years in a high security California women's prison, Butterflies on Barbwire; and newspaper articles about travel, adventures, and whimsical experiences. |