Longman Academic Writing Series 2: Paragraphs, with Essential Online Resources

by Ann Hogue

The Longman Academic Writing Series helps develop student writing from basic composition of sentences and paragraphs to academic essays and research papers. At each level, students are offered guidance in the complete writing process from prewriting to revision, and are provided with clear explanations, extensive practice, and consistent coverage of sentence mechanics and grammar.
Highlights

Step-by-step approach helps students produce a well-organized, clearly developed portfolio that is the foundation of academic coursework. Realistic writing models guide writers while clear explanations, supported by examples, help students through typical rough spots. Extensive practice helps students assimilate writing skills to learn to write with accuracy and confidence. Timed writing activities provide a plan for writing paragraphs on tests.


Interactive tasks, such as pair and group work, allow students to receive peer feedback on their
individual writing. New Essential Online Resources include grammar for writing and sentence structure activities,
teacher support material, teacher's manual, and assessments. Mapped to the Global Scale of English.

Genres: Writing, Language, Education

240 pages, Paperback

Published September 16, 2016

Reviews

[Shaghayegh]

کاربردی، اصولی و مفید.
این جلد، شامل شش فصل هست که با ریزجزئیات، به عناوین کلی در طول درس می‌پردازه. همچنان فکر می‌کنم در عین سادگی، نکات خوبی رو ارائه میده.
لیست پایین از سرفصل‌ها هست:
1. Describing People
2. Listing-Order Paragraphs
3. Giving Instructions
4. Describing with Space Order
5. Stating Reasons and Using Examples
6. Expressing Your Opinion

[Sebah Al-Ali]

A textbook assigned for teaching writing classes, level 2 (low-intermediate) in my institution. It's not bad. The structure of the book is interesting, and the material provided is suitable for my students. However, it doesn't seem to be strong enough to help student acquire/learn the required information. Not all topics were explained in a clear manner. I needed to consult other textbooks and material to support my classes and provide students with what they needed to learn.

Overall, I think the book is good to help plan the structure of a writing course, but it's not enough to be the only textbook consulted.

[Kay]

Used as the writing text for a low-intermediate writing class at a community college. On the whole, my students didn't find this text as useful as its predecessor (Weaving It Together, Book 2 by Milada Broukal), although the book did have certain strengths, such as making the writing and editing process explicit and providing plenty of good model paragraphs. However, I was not a fan of some of the exercises that involved sentence parsing -- analyzing sentence structure. For example, here are the directions for one exercise to analyze complex sentences:

"Step 1: Underline the independent clauses with a solid line and the dependent clauses with a broken line.

Step 2: Draw a circle around the subordinate.

Step 3: Add a comma if one is needed."

Well, as you might imagine, some confusion ensued, and at times I spent more time explaining how to do the exercise than in getting the point of the exercise across. I found myself either not assigning these exercises or amending the directions to make them less confusing.

[Adolf Bunpo]

ok

[Hisham]

good

[Soplada]

simple and easy and I took a bad mark in the final Exam :)

[Rasha El-Ghitani]

I recommended this book for the beginners,but they have to continue and improve their writing skills.
Good Luck

[Nebrass N farfoor]

This is great book it helped me to improve my writing :) .

[Mustafa EL Gaml]

Contains much information that I got from" fundamentals of academic writing", but more Expanding info. And well built for beginners.

[Daramao]

I want to read this book.