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MindTap Developmental English, 2 terms (12 months) Instant Access for Scarry/Scarry's The Writer’s Workplace with Readings: Building College Writing Skills, 9th Edition

Sandra Scarry, John Scarry

  • Copyright 2018
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MindTap Developmental English, 2 terms (12 months) Instant Access for Scarry/Scarry's The Writer’s Workplace with Readings: Building College Writing Skills 9th Edition by Sandra Scarry/John Scarry
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MindTap Developmental English for Scarry/Scarry's The Writer’s Workplace with Readings: Building College Writing Skills, 9th Edition is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie-cutter into cutting-edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers.

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Meet the Authors

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Sandra Scarry

Sandra Scarry is the former Academic Coordinator of the COPE program (College Opportunity to Prepare for Employment) at The City University of New York. She came to that position after many years of classroom teaching in English and ESOL. She has published numerous textbooks in the areas of grammar and writing.

John Scarry

John Scarry holds a Ph.D. from New York University and was the senior professor in the English Department of Hostos Community College, The City University of New York. He has been publishing writing textbooks for thirty-five years and his scholarly articles have appeared in many journals here and abroad.

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LEARNING PATH:

Engagement activities, low stakes polls, animations, and prompts capture students’ attention and engages them without grading them in order to set them up for success in each chapter.

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Each chapter concludes with a "Portfolio suggestion," a writing opportunity to encourage creativity and critical thinking.

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  • ISBN-10: 1337097004
  • ISBN-13: 9781337097000
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Cengage provides a range of supplements that are updated in coordination with the main title selection. For more information about these supplements, contact your Learning Consultant.

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The Writer’s Workplace with Readings: Building College Writing Skills

ISBN: 9781305960954
Covering concepts from grammar through essay writing, THE WRITER'S WORKPLACE WITH READINGS: BUILDING COLLEGE WRITING SKILLS is the most comprehensive and engaging text available for the beginning writing student. Based on many years of classroom teaching and research, this approachable text reflects the authors' goal of building and sustaining students' confidence in their writing by breaking down difficult writing concepts into easy-to-read, step-by-step explanations. Mastery Tests at the end of each grammar and mechanics chapter reinforce new concepts, and Working Together activities provide instructors with easy-to-incorporate lessons designed for group work and lively class discussions. Writing examples and exercises include new high interest topics such as career-related writing, college sports and money, and the challenges facing veterans. The ninth edition also includes comprehensive strategies for active reading, seven new readings, and updated MLA citation instruction.