PDF Writing to communicate 2 Answer, Paragraph and essays, Cynthia A. Boardman

Writing to communicate 2 Answer, Paragraph and essays, Cynthia A. Boardman

This PDF is the "Answer Key" for the "Writing to Communicate 2: Paragraphs and Essays, Third Edition" textbook by Cynthia A. Boardman and Jia Frydenberg. Published by Pearson Longman in 2008, it provides answers to the exercises found in the student textbook.

The document is structured into multiple chapters and parts, mirroring the textbook's organization, and covers various aspects of writing. Each chapter in the answer key addresses specific writing skills and concepts, including:

• Paragraph organization: Identifying topics, controlling ideas, evaluating topic sentences, and analyzing supporting and concluding sentences.
• Characteristics of good writing: Chronological and spatial ordering, coherence, and the use of definite articles and personal pronouns.
• The writing process: Analyzing assignments, brainstorming, choosing controlling ideas, eliminating irrelevant ideas, and outlining.
• From paragraph to essay: Analyzing paragraphs and essays, outlining essays, and combining sentences using transitions.
• The thesis statement: Identifying parts of thesis statements, predicting essay content, and evaluating and writing thesis statements.
• Introductory and concluding paragraphs: Identifying and evaluating different types of introductory and concluding paragraphs.
• Body paragraphs: Writing topic sentences, analyzing first and last sentences, and using concrete support.
• Process essays: Analyzing model essays and ordering steps in a process.
• Classification essays: Classifying people, determining classification principles, and writing classification thesis statements.
• Persuasion essays: Determining good topics, ordering arguments, and practicing argumentation.
• Comparison and contrast essays: Analyzing model essays and using connectors for comparison and contrast.

Additionally, the answer key includes "Vocabulary Builder" sections with answers for vocabulary exercises, "Structure and Mechanics" sections focusing on grammar and sentence structure (such as identifying sentences, combining sentences, using commas, and correcting run-on sentences and comma splices), and "Bringing It All Together" sections for reviewing ideas and error analysis. An appendix provides possible answers for a "Classifying People" exercise.