Basic Composition for ESL: An Expository Workbook

by Jann Huizenga, Courtenay M. Snellings, Gladys B. Francis

Book Overview

Basic Composition for ESL combines traditional approaches to composition with process writing through step-by-step explanations, exercises, and strategies.-- Basic organizational skills-- Rhetorical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 083843004X
• ISBN13: 9780838430040
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Heinle ELT
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.9" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

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This book really improve your English skills and is a helpfull tool in the study of it.

Basic Composition for Esl : An Expository Workbook

I and my colleagues have used Basic Comp for ESL for a number of years through the second and third edition of this book. We have found the book to very useful and user-freindly. The design and content of the text leads writers through a structured practice of the writing process and a structured analysis of basic rhetorical models. It also gives practice in sentence-generating and editing. The explanatory material is accessible to lower-level students while still useful to higher-level students. We use this book for lower intermediate and intermediate level students; we use Huizenga's Writing Workout as an elementary level text.As an ESL program administrator, I find that I can give this text to a neophyte teacher of writing and not have to give extensive support. As a longtime teacher of writing, I have found that I can easily move my student writers through the material as quickly or slowly as is needed.If you are a new teacher of ESL writing, get a copy of this book. If you are looking for a text for a class, definitely consider it.