Adventures in Composition is designed to help students develop their academic and paragraph writing skills through the examination of short stories of some well-known writers. These stories will hold the students' interest as they explore writing from a new perspective--learning to use the work of good writers as a guide. The types of writing featured and taught are narrative, description, comparison and contrast, and expository.
Each chapter features a Writing Basics section (e.g., compound sentences, subject-verb agreement, transitions) and pre-writing activities (e.g.,...