Exploring Writing - Sentences & Paragraphs John Langan

EXPLORING 2E SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS JOHN LANGAN Exploring Writing Exploring Writing Sentences and Paragraphs SECOND EDITION John Langan Atlantic Cape Community College TM TM Published by McGraw-Hill, an imprint of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright © 2010, 2008. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be repro-duced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 DOW/DOW 0 9 ISBN 978-0-07-337186-3 (student edition) MHID 0-07-337186-6 (student edition) ISBN 978-0-07-730317-4 (instructor’s edition) MHID 0-07-730317-2 (instructor’s edition) Vice President, Editor in Chief: Michael Ryan Publisher: David S. Patterson Senior Sponsoring Editor: John Kindler Marketing Manager: Jaclyn Elkins Director of Development: Dawn Groundwater Development Editor: Alyson Watts Editorial Coordinator: Jesse Hassenger Senior Production Editor: Karol Jurado Production Service: Aaron Downey, Matrix Productions Inc. Manuscript Editor: Dan Hays Design Manager: Preston Thomas Text Designer: Maureen McCutcheon Cover Designer: Laurie Entringer Photo Research: Emily Tietz Media Project Manager: Vivek Iyer Senior Production Supervisor: Tandra Jorgensen Composition: 11/13.5 Palatino by Macmillan Publishing Solutions Printing: 45# New Era Thin Plus, RR Donnelley & Sona Cover images: © Jo McRyan/Stone/Getty Images (top left); © White Packert/Stone/Getty Images (top right); © Michael Poehlman/Photographer’s Choice/Getty Images (bottom left); © Jan Cobb Photography Ltd./Photographer’s Choice/Getty Images (bottom right) Credits: The credits section for this book begins on page 637 and is considered an extension of the copyright page. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Langan, John Exploring writing : sentences and paragraphs / John Langan. — 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-07-337186-3 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-07-337186-6 (alk. paper) 1. English language—Sentences—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. English language—Paragraphs—Problems, exercises, etc. 3. English language—Rhetoric—Problems, exercises, etc. 4. Report writing—Problems, exercises, etc. I. Title. PE1441.L34 2009 808`.042076—dc22 2009004597 The Internet addresses listed in the text were accurate at the time of publication. The inclusion of a Web site does not indicate an endorsement by the authors or McGraw-Hill, and McGraw-Hill does not guarantee the accuracy of the information presented at these sites. www.mhhe.com John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for more than twenty-five years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in read-ing at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that, he says, “is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be dis- covered and acclaimed posthumously.” While in school, he sup-ported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and apple packer. John now lives with his wife, Judith Nadell, near Philadelphia. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and turning on nonreaders to the pleasure and power of books. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the non-profit “Townsend Library”—a collection of more than fifty new and classic stories that appeal to readers of any age. v ... - tailieumienphi.vn