‧Exploring Personalized Learning Plan
　　Exploring Writing emphasizes personalized learning. Powered by Connect Writing, Students gain access to our groundbreaking personalized learning plan, which helps students become aware of what they already know and what they need to practice. A self-study too, its cutting- edge, continually adaptive technology and exclusive time management features make students more productive, keep them on track, and give them the writing skills needed for all their college courses.

　　‧Exploring Personal, Academic, and Workplace Writing
　　Throughout Sentences and Paragraphs, students are exposed to examples of writing that reflect the three key realms of their lives--- personal, academic, and workplace….

　　‧Exploring and Mastering the Four Bases: Unity, Support, Coherence, Sentence Skills.
　　Exploring Writing emphasizes writing skills and process. By referring to a set of four skills for effective Writing, Exploring Writing encourages new writers to see writing as a skill that can be learned and a process that must be explored.
 

作者简介

John Langan

　　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 reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that, he says, is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously. While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an 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 nonprofit Townsend Library collection of more than one hundred new and classic stories that appeal to readers of any age.