REFINING COMPOSITION SKILLS combines extensive practice in rhetorical strategies and techniques while integrating instruction with reading, grammar, and critical thinking skills.

The new edition of this best-selling series combines comprehensive development and practice in the rhetorical modes while integrating instruction in reading, grammar, critical thinking, and vocabulary development. -Developing Composition Skills focuses students on narrating, describing, analyzing, comparing and contrasting, classifying, and evaluating at the paragraph level and offers a complete introduction that bridges the gap between the paragraph and the essay level. -Refining Composition Skills develops essay writing skills needed for success at the college level by thoroughly reviewing and presenting the following rhetorical modes: compare and contrast, example, classification, process analysis, cause and effect, and argument

The Talk It series helps students learn to communicate fluently and accurately by integrating listening, speaking, and pronunciation practice. Themes range from high-interest conversational topics such as talking to a landlord or professor in the lower-level text, to academic themes like unusual science and alternative medicine in the higher-level texts.

This low-intermediate pronunciation text provides balanced listening and speaking practice with guided exercises to help students from all language backgrounds improve their pronunciation. Throughout the text, students focus on the vowel and consonant sounds they confuse most often and practice stress, intonation, and the rhythm of English. Concise, balanced coverage of segmentals and suprasegmentals provides students with complete lessons. Balanced listening and speaking practice helps make class work relevant and improve students' language production.A comprehensive web site helps instructors and students to enhance the class with technology and includes additional practice, assessment tests, and teaching tools.Assessment tools help instructors apply the best methods of listening discrimination and pronunciation.

The Talk It series helps students learn to communicate fluently and accurately by integrating listening, speaking, and pronunciation practice. Themes range from high-interest conversational topics such as talking to a landlord or professor in the lower-level text, to academic themes like unusual science and alternative medicine in the higher-level texts.