Stepping stones a guided approach to writing sentences and paragraphs

Preface for Instructors Print Resources Instructor’s Annotated Edition by Chris Juzwiak. Provides answers to activities, teaching tips, and ideas for classroom activities — right at your fingertips. ISBN-10: 0-312-48606-5 / ISBN-13: 978-0-312-48606-8 Resources for Teaching Stepping Stones by Chris Juzwiak, with additional articles from a panel of expert instructors. Offers guidance on teaching with the book, including advice on engaging all students, no matter their skill level; teaching ESL and Generation 1.5 students and those with disabilities; facilitating collaboration; assessing writing; and more. ISBN-10: 0-312-48598-0 / ISBN-13: 978-0-312-48598-6 Tests and Exercises to Accompany Stepping Stones. Provides diagnostic pre- and post-tests and additional practices to build students’ writing and grammar skills. ISBN-10: 0-312-48601-4 / ISBN-13: 978-0-312-48601-3 Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings, Third Edition. This professional resource, edited by Susan Naomi Bernstein, former co-chair of the Conference on Basic Writing, offers essays on topics of interest to basic writing instructors, along with editorial apparatus pointing out practical applications for the classroom. ISBN-10: 0-312-43283-6 / ISBN-13: 978-0-312-43283-6 The Bedford/St. Martin’s ESL Workbook. Covers grammar issues for multilingual students with varying English-language skills and cultural backgrounds. Instructional introductions are followed by illustrative examples and exercises. ISBN-10: 0-312-44503-2 / ISBN-13: 978-0-312-44503-4 The Bedford/St. Martin’s Planner with Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips. Includes everything that students need to plan and use their time effectively, with advice on preparing schedules and to-do lists and blank schedules and calendars (monthly and weekly) for planning. Integrated into the planner are tips from the popular Grammar Girl podcast; quick advice on fixing common grammar errors, note-taking, and succeeding on tests; an address book; and an annotated list of useful Web sites. The planner fits easily into a backpack or purse, so students can take it anywhere. ISBN-10: 0-312-48023-7 / ISBN-13: 978-0-312-48023-3 From Practice to Mastery (study guide for the Florida Basic Skills Exit Tests in reading and writing). Gives students all the resources they need to practice for — and pass — the Florida tests in reading and writing. It includes pre- and post-tests, abundant practices, and clear instruction in all the skills covered on the exams. ISBN-10: 0-312-41908-2 / ISBN-13: 978-0-312-41908-0 New Media Resources WritingClass. WritingClass is the first online learning space shaped by the needs of the developmental course. Students stay focused because assignments, grades, and writing instruction are all in one place. It’s easy for you to monitor student progress and offer feedback when it counts most. WritingClass comes preloaded with our best media, for you to use when building your course: Exercise Central, ix x Preface for Instructors video tutorials for challenging concepts, writing guides, and more. ISBN-10: 0-312-48604-9 / ISBN-13: 978-0-312-48604-4 Free book companion site, at bedfordstmartins.com/steppingstones. Offers grammar and writing exercises with immediate scoring, annotated examples of student writing, instructor PowerPoints, and more. Re:Writing Basics, at bedfordstmartins.com/rewritingbasics. Collects in one place the most popular Bedford/St. Martin’s resources for developmental writing, including annotated student models, a learning style inventory, diagnostics, interactive tutorials, and more. For access to premium resources, there’s Re:Writing Plus, bedfordstmartins .com/rewritingplus. This brings together a variety of fun, innovative learning tools, such as Make-a-Paragraph Kit (see below), video tutorials, an online peer-review game, model documents, and more. Just-in-Time Teaching, at bedfordstmartins.com/justintime. Looking for lastminute course materials from a source you can trust? We’ve culled the best handouts, teaching tips, assignment ideas, and more from our print and online resources and put them all in one place. Make-a-Paragraph Kit with Exercise Central to Go. This fun, interactive CDROM includes an “Extreme Paragraph Makeover” animation teaching students about paragraph development as well as activities that guide students through creating their own paragraphs. Additionally, it offers a set of audiovisual tutorials on fragments, run-ons and comma splices, subject-verb agreement problems, and verb problems. Grammar exercises are also included. ISBN-10: 0-312-45332-9 / ISBN-13: 978-0-312-45332-9 Preface for Instructors Exercise Central to Go: Writing and Grammar Practices for Basic Writers. This CD-ROM includes hundreds of practice items to help basic writers build their writing and editing skills and provides audio instructions and instant feedback. Drawn from the popular Exercise Central resource, the practices have been extensively class-tested. No Internet connection is necessary. ISBN-10: 0-312-44652-7 / ISBN-13: 978-0-312-44652-9 Testing Tool Kit: A Writing and Grammar Test Bank. This CD-ROM allows instructors to create secure, customized tests and quizzes to assess students’ writing and grammar competency and gauge their progress during the course. The CD includes nearly 2,000 test items on 47 writing and grammar topics, at two levels of difficulty. Also, ten pre-built diagnostic tests are included. Scoring is instantaneous when tests and quizzes are administered online. ISBN-10: 0-312-43032-9 / ISBN-13: 978-0-312-43032-0 ORDERING INFORMATION To order any of the ancillaries for Stepping Stones, please contact your Bedford/St. Martin’s sales representative, e-mail sales support at sales_support@bfwpub.com, or visit our Web site at bedfordstmartins.com. Use these ISBNs when ordering the following supplements packaged with your students’ books: Tests and Exercises to Accompany Stepping Stones ISBN-10: 0-312-55387-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-55387-6 The Bedford/St. Martin’s ESL Workbook ISBN-10: 0-312-55382-X ISBN-13: 978-0-312-55382-1 The Bedford/St. Martin’s Planner ISBN-10: 0-312-55761-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-55761-4 From Practice to Mastery ISBN-10: 0-312-55383-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-55383-8 WritingClass ISBN-10: 0-312-55379-X ISBN-13: 978-0-312-55379-1 Re:Writing Plus ISBN-10: 0-312-55384-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-55384-5 Make-a-Paragraph Kit ISBN-10: 0-312-55381-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-55381-4 Exercise Central to Go ISBN-10: 0-312-55380-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-55380-7 xi xii Preface for Instructors ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Stepping Stones would not have been possible without the diligence, insights, and plain hard work of a large number of instructors, students, and other contributors. Reviewers Throughout the development of this book, a dedicated group of instructors, part of an Editorial Advisory Board, reviewed every page of the manuscript, offering helpful comments and fresh ideas, suggesting revisions large and small, and generally helping to shape the manuscript to make it more useful to students and other teachers. A few of these instructors are expert in teaching ESL and Generation 1.5 students, and their comments helped us address the needs of those students throughout the text. Following are the members of the Editorial Advisory Board: ● Barbara Craig, Del Mar College ● Kristen di Gennaro, Pace University ● Matthew Fox, Monroe Community College ● Sally Gearhart, Santa Rosa Junior College ● Susan Brown Rodriguez, Hillsborough Community College ● Valerie Russell, Valencia Community College Additionally, many other instructors reviewed the manuscript at different points or offered comments through focus groups or workshops: Shannon Bailey, Austin Community College; Kay Blue, Owens Community College; Rhonda Carroll, Pulaski Technical College; Frank Cronin, Austin Community College; Gigi Derballa, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College; Connie Gulick, Central New Mexico University; Lisa Hatfield, Portland State University; Paula Ingram, Pensacola Junior College; Karen Lemke, Adams State College; Lourdes Lopez-Merino, Palm Beach Community College; Craig Machado, Norwalk Community College; Patricia McGraw, Cape Cod Community College; Caryn Newburger, Austin Community College; Viethang Pham, Cerritos College; Francie Quaas-Berryman, Cerritos College; Karen Roth, University of Texas, San Antonio; Jennifer Rusnak, Florida Community College at Jacksonville; Kimberly Samaniego, California State Long Beach; Jack Swanson, Cerritos College; Melissa Thomas, University of Texas, San Antonio; Monette Tiernan, Glendale Community College; Julie Tilton, San Bernardino Valley College; Christine Tutlewski, University of Wisconsin–Parkside; Rhonda Wallace, Cuyahoga Community College; Shelley Walters, Temple College; Ronald Weisberger, Bristol Community College; Elizabeth Whitehead, Bristol Community College; Julie Yankanich, Camden County College; and Betsy Zuegg, Quinsigamond Community College. Students Several student writers contributed paragraphs and essays to this book and its supplements. I am grateful for their dedication and for their willingness to share their work. These students include Angela Adkins, Jennifer Baffa, Samantha Castaneda, Francisco Fragoso, Arlene Galvez, Leanna R. Gonzales, Susan Preface for Instructors Janoubi, Sarah Littmann, Cleva Nelson, Anallely Orozco, Adam F. Perez, Brian Rickenbrode, Maurice Rivera, Ekaterina Savchenkova, and Angela Vargas. Other Contributors I am also grateful to a number of other people whose hard work made this book possible. Julie Nichols of Okaloosa-Walton College carefully and energetically crafted exercises for both the book and its supplements, while Karin Paque researched and wrote elegant author headnotes for the readings in Part Three. Linda Finigan researched images and also cleared art permissions, while Warren Drabek ably cleared text permissions under the guidance of Sandy Schechter. Brian DeTagyos and Claire Seng-Niemoeller created colorful illustrations to aid students’ understanding of writing and grammar points. For their insightful contributions to Resources for Teaching Stepping Stones, I would like to thank Matthew Fox of Monroe Community College, Sally Gearhart of Santa Rosa Junior College, Erin M. O’Brien of University of Massachusetts Boston, and Susan Brown Rodriguez of Hillsborough Community College. At Glendale Community College, my colleague Denise Ezell deserves a lion’s share of gratitude for her generous support when my morale and imagination were running low. At these junctures, she rescued me by co-writing various activities and sample paragraphs for the book. Invariably, with her pedagogical common sense and wit, she got the project back on track, infusing it with fresh clarity and charm. Also at Glendale Community College, several colleagues inspired me to think outside the pedagogical box. For their guidance, I am grateful to Ida Ferdman, Linda Griffith, Darren Leaver, Mark Maier, Alice Mecom, Brett Miketta, and Monette Tiernan. Bedford/St. Martin’s and Beyond At Bedford/St. Martin’s, a large number of people were part of bringing Stepping Stones into being. Early on, Stacy Luce, my Bedford/St. Martin’s sales representative, and Rachel Falk, former marketing manager for developmental English, helped to connect me and Bedford/St. Martin’s. As the book headed toward signing, former editor David Mogolov helped me to shape my ideas and offered many valuable suggestions based on his own market experience and extensive reviews. Carrie Brandon, who succeeded David, has continued to share market knowledge and other insights, and she’s helped us shape a strong message for the book. Throughout the book’s development, President Joan E. Feinberg, Editorial Director Denise B. Wydra, and Editor in Chief Karen S. Henry have generously contributed many wise ideas and thoughtful suggestions for Stepping Stones based on years of experience listening to, and responding to the needs of, writing instructors. Throughout the development process, Stephanie Naudin assisted with countless tasks large and small, from helping to find engaging readings to running numerous review programs and managing a multitude of administrative details. Later in the process, Anne Leung stepped in to help with the ancillaries, and she insightfully edited Resources for Teaching Stepping Stones. xiii xiv Preface for Instructors Making Stepping Stones colorful and engaging while ensuring its ease of use was a design challenge ably met by Art Director Anna Palchik and Designer Claire Seng-Niemoeller. Their creativity, energy, and problem-solving skills resulted in a design as attractive as it is practical. Elise Kaiser also contributed many useful suggestions for the design. Additionally, Elise and Elizabeth M. Schaaf oversaw many details regarding the production of the book. Production Editor Rosemary Jaffe skillfully guided the book through the production process, offering many practical suggestions and helping to solve a range of problems with patience, intelligence, and good humor. Rosemary brought on Jacqueline Rebisz and Steven Patterson as the copyeditors and Linda McLatchie and Andrea Martin as the proofreaders, and they deserve praise for their thoroughness and careful eye for details. Also contributing to the look of the book was Sara Gates, who designed the appealing cover with the aid of Billy Boardman and Donna Dennison. Additionally, Martha Friedman helped with the art program in the early stages. In New Media, several talented people helped to shape and produce the electronic ancillaries for Stepping Stones. Daniel Cole helped with the early stages of developing WritingClass with Stepping Stones e-Book; Kamali Thornell and Rebecca Merrill produced an attractive and robust companion Web site; Kim Hampton advised on the creation and formatting of online exercises; and John Amburg ably oversaw the copyediting of the online materials. Nick Carbone continues to travel the country, gathering information on how to develop the best online resources for Stepping Stones and Bedford/St. Martin’s other texts and responding to instructor needs for workshops and other support for online instruction. I am also grateful for the new-media expertise and endless creativity of Alanya Harter, Katie Schooling, and Harriet Wald. In marketing, sincere thanks go to Karen R. Soeltz, Jane Helms, and Casey Carroll for their creative ideas in getting out the word on Stepping Stones. Casey Carroll, as marketing manager, helped to shape the book’s message and coordinate a number of sales efforts for it. Also, Karita dos Santos assisted with market development, offering many innovative ideas. Additionally, I would like to thank those who developed and produced promotional materials for the book: Kim Cevoli, who designed an attractive brochure with the guidance of Shelby Disario, and Jessamyn Jones McEnoy, who oversaw the production of catalog materials. My enduring gratitude goes to Beth Castrodale, who as editor of this book and professional mentor, sustained and elevated me through the composition process with her insightful criticism, intellectual rigor, and collaborative generosity. I couldn’t imagine a more auspicious or edifying introduction to the work of textbook writing than my partnership with Beth. Merci beaucoup, mon amie. I also want to thank my family members and friends, whose unflagging enthusiasm and patience were as crucial to this work as any other component: Doug Mann, Lael Mann, Estella Martinez, Ruth Owens, Sandra and Ernie Gomez, Catherine Leh, James Geyer, Shelley Aronoff, Michael Ritterbrown, Christine Menardus, George Gharibian, Ildy Lee, and Marilyn Selznick. — Chris Juzwiak