Model Essays 1: Showing you the Basics

Description

This is a series of 3 books designed to demonstrate to students how well-written essays are structured. In reading and studying the model essays, students will acquire ideas and facts related to the topics. They will also become familiar with the techniques of writing interesting essays. After each essay, there is a vocabulary section that explains the meanings of some difficult words in the essay.

Each book contains 50 units featuring the most common composition topics. Each unit begins with a model, followed by a vocabulary section which explains the more difficult words or phrases in the model. The unit ends with a writing assignment on a topic similar to the model. Writing frames or key questions are given to guide students.

Author Biography

Betty Kirkpatrick has a long and distinguished career as editor, publisher and writer of English reference books. She was the editor of Chambers Twentieth Dictionary (1983), the editor of Roget`s Thesaurus (1987 and 1988) and compiler of the Oxford Paperback Thesaurus (1994). Her Dictionary of Cliches (1996), published by Bloomsbury, is also available in a US edition and a Japanese edition. A language consultant to the Encarta Dictionary (1999), published by Bloomsbury, and to Collins School Dictionaries (2000), she used to write a weekly language column for the Herald newspaper, based in Glasgow.