Creating Meaning

English level: Upper-Intermediate — Advanced

Kathy Block and Hannah Friesen

Description

Develops the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills that students will require in content classes.

Overview

Creating Meaning provides a bridge to the academic mainstream by teaching students to comprehend facts and ideas, select and synthesize relevant information, and communicate this information accurately and analytically in their writing.

Key features

  • Readings are authentic, current, and are taken from textbooks, magazines, journals, and essay collections.
  • Writing tasks centred around the major rhetorical modes common in academics, including description, comparison/contrast, cause/effect, argument, and critique.
  • Process approach to writing.
  • Practice in grammar, editing, and reviewing.
  • Canadian content.
  • Extensive practice with key skills such as paraphrasing, summarizing, comparing information and perspectives, distinguishing fact from opinion, assessing bias, and documenting sources.
  • The final chapter teaches students to assemble a research paper with multiple citations.

ISBN index

Creating Meaning

Upper-Intermediate
Student Book    9780195427936
Teacher's Book     Free Online

Advanced
Student Book 978-0-19-541401-1
Answer Key Booklet 978-0-19-541543-8

Sample Pages

To view a sample chapter from Creating Meaning Upper-Intermediate click here.