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Strategies for College Writing offers full coverage of the basics of writing essays, paragraphs, and sentences with a focus on preparing readers for academic writing and reading assignments. The book emphasizes the importance of the controlling idea, the process of gathering information from both personal experience and other sources, the structure of an essay, and the way in which ideas are arranged and connected. In Part Two, readers learn how to use models for each of the patterns of development. Readers learn how to construct different types of sentences and how to use appropriate punctuation in Part Three. Ample exercise material reinforces the instruction. Part Four, Critical Reading Strategies, focuses on the process of reading and relates it to the process of writing and provides effective strategies for summarizing, note-taking, and annotating reading material. For the writer who needs to develop basic skills.