Focus on Writing: Paragraphs and Essays

Focus on Writing: Paragraphs and Essays

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<DIV><P><I>Focus on Writing</I> offers students thorough coverage of writing college paragraphs and essays in a visually inviting format and with a unique tool for assessing and revising writing: the easy-to-grasp, easy-to-remember TEST method. Standing for <B>T</B>opic sentence or <B>T</B>hesis statement, <B>E</B>vidence, <B>S</B>ummary statement, and <B>T</B>ransitions, this practical tool helps students self-edit their writing for unity, support, and coherence. In this edition, best-selling authors Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell expand on their detailed, step-by-step guidance for developing paragraphs; offer more coverage of critical reading and thinking, a new chapter on college success, research; and provide new student models that reflect realistic student work.</DIV>