English skills with readings

Part One begins, in Chapter 1, by introducing you to the basic principles of effctive writing.You learn that what is most infortant in writing is to make a point and support that point. This chapter next provides an overview of how the book is organized. it then goes on to discuss the benefits of paragraph writing and two key ideas about writing. The first key idea is that writing is a skill that anyone can learn with practice. The second key idea is that one can often discover a subject in the very process of writing about it. Finally, the chapter presents journal writing and offers some suggstions on how use the text