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    <title>Real skills with readings</title>
    <subTitle>sentences and paragraphs for college, work, and everyday life</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Anker, Susan.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Becker, Suzy</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Boston, Mass</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Bedford/St. Martins</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2013</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2013</dateIssued>
    <edition>3rd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>xxxv, 679 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>"Real Skills with Readings offers practical, accessible coverage of basic sentence skills and step-by-step guidance on writing paragraphs. Like the other books in the Anker series, Real Skills motivates students with its message that writing is an essential and achievable skill. Real Skills connects engaging grammar and writing instruction with an emphasis on critical thinking and reading skills -- the keys to successful writing. Real-world examples, assignments, and readings show students the relevance of writing to all aspects of their lives."--publisher's website.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Part 1. Writing paragraphs -- Part 2. Grammar basics -- Part 3. Editing for the four most serious errors -- Part 4. Editing for other errors and sentense style -- Part 5. Editing words in sentences -- Part 6. Editing for punctuation and mechanics -- Part 7. ESL concerns -- Part 8. Readings for writers.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Susan Anker ; with illustrations by Suzy Becker.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>English language</topic>
    <topic>Paragraphs</topic>
    <topic>Problems, exercises, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>English language</topic>
    <topic>Rhetoric</topic>
    <topic>Problems, exercises, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>English language</topic>
    <topic>Grammar</topic>
    <topic>Problems, exercises, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Report writing</topic>
    <topic>Problems, exercises, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>College readers</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">PE1439 .A548 2013</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="23">808/.042</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781457602009</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2012940879</identifier>
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