Writer's Options, The: Lessons in Style and Arrangement [Paperback]

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The Writer's Options encourages readers to investigate their writing options through sentence-combining and rearrangement to create more sophisticated, more effective compositions.  The text contains ample practice with arranging and rearranging sentences, paragraphs, and essays as a means of strengthening prose and conveying a more effective message.

• Sentence-combining practice. Students use sentence-combining exercises within a rhetorical context to learn how to master the conventions of grammar and compound/complex sentence constructions.
• Writing strategy. The exercises for arranging sentences, paragraphs, and essays build schema in making organization decisions to convey ideas.
• Strong exercises. Appealing and accessible examples and exercises were chosen specifically to be relevant to today's students.
• Chapter previews.  Each lesson opens with a preview of thelcB