Step-by-Step Writing: A Standards-Based Approach is a four-level series uniquely designed to cover the same genres across all levels. It covers standards-based writing genres, conventions, and organizational strategies. Through a variety of activities, students progress from words to sentences to paragraphs, developing the skills and confidence required for successful composition writing and improved test scores.
Step-by-Step Writing: A Standards-Based Approach is a four-level series uniquely designed to cover the same genres across all levels. It covers standards-based writing genres, conventions, and organizational strategies.
A story at Level 1 of a series of children's illustrated ELT readers which are graded at five levels, according to length and complexity of plot. The stories cover a wide variety of genres, and have both British and foreign settings
Variety in Written English - Texts in Society-Societies in Text
Combining insights from a variety of written genres including Hallidayan functional linguistics and relevance theory, Tony Bex demonstrates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning. Variety in Written Discourse examines a wide range of written genres from advertisements and letters to poetry and literature. Providing an accessible and comprehensive survey of genre theory, the Bex also proposes a challenging new way of analyzing genre which emphasizes communicative function. The book includes numerous exercises and annotated bibliographies.
Starting in the mid-1980s, a talented set of comics artists changed the American comic-book industry forever by introducing adult sensibilities and aesthetic considerations into popular genres such as superhero comics and the newspaper strip. Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen (1987) revolutionized the former genre in particular. During this same period, underground and alternative genres began to garner critical acclaim and media attention beyond comics-specific outlets, as best represented by Art Spiegelman's Maus.
