Skills for Effective Writing teaches a wide variety of discrete writing skills and offers extensive practice in each one.

Students are better writers when they master discrete writing skills, such as creating topic sentences and recognizing irrelevant information. Learning to write is a complex process but when students master these skills that are critical to become good writers, all of their writing improves. This allows teachers to focus their time and feedback on the content of student work.

Key features

• Targets a wide range of skills from topic sentences to coherence and from recognizing fact vs. opinion to paraphrasing, making students better writers.
• Allows teachers to focus on feedback on larger issues like developing ideas and mastering rhetorical modes.
• Project or screenshare the eBook on Cambridge One to focus students’ attention in class.