New Releases by John Langan

A self-teaching guide to English grammar, punctuation and usage skills.

Designed for instructors who prefer to teach composition with a separate handbook or some other combination of texts, this brief edition of The Longman Writer, Fifth Edition , contains everything from the very popular full edition except the Handbook. Students get a rhetoric, reader, and research guide as well as plentiful exercises all in a shorter and more economical volume. Created by the authors of the best-selling The Macmillan Reader, the text draws on more than 60 years of combined teaching experience to integrate the best of the "product" and "process" approaches to writing. Its particular strengths include an emphasis on the reading-writing connection, a focus on invention and revision, more attention to the fact that patterns blend in actual writing, and an abundance of class-tested activities and assignments more than 300 in all.

Looking inside yourself -- Thinking clearly -- Reading for pleasure and power -- Managing your time -- Taking notes in class -- Improving your memory and study power -- Reading textbooks and taking notes -- Taking tests -- Achieving basic goals in writing -- Understanding the writing process.

College Writing Skills With Readings, 5th Edition, features Langan''s renowned clear writing style and wide range of writing assignments and activities that reinforce the four essentials of good writing: Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills.

This anthology presents 58 essays organized around nine rhetorical patterns of development. Representing a range of topics and styles, the selections include such works as Orwell''s Shooting an Elephant along with works like Caroline Rego''s The Fine Art of Complaining and Art Carey''s When Things Fall Apart. In addition to demonstrating strong writing, the readings encourage students to think about the environment, politics, animal rights, and other significant issues.

This text provides students with the essential reading and study skills they need to become independent learners in college. A brief guide to important word skills, it also covers motivational skills which encourage the right attitude. This new edition is an alternate version of Form A, offering fresh reading selections, over 200 exercises and activities including: a complete chapter from an introductory sociology textbook, the PRWR (preview-read-write-recite) study method, a new introduction which helps students determine which skills to hone and an explanation of new library computerized search facilities.

In 1987, the Vatican presented a document, The Instruction on respect for human life in its origin and on the dignity of procreation, confronting the moral dilemmas inherent in the newer reproductive technologies. These papers, first presented at a conference at Georgetown U., consider the clinical and technical aspects, the moral-theological foundations, and the impact on legislation and public policy of these reproductive technologies in light of the Vatican Instruction, which is also included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A textbook in English reading comprehension for college students.

This CD-ROM provides students with a rich multimedia extension of the text'' s content. Each module of the CD-ROM is tied to a chapter of the text, featuring quizzes with feedback for both right and wrong answers, vocabulary building crossword puzzles, journal activities, a learning styles assessment, and an Internet primer.Available for free when packaged with the text.