English as a Second Language, Fiction, Creative Writing & Composition, Foreign Languages 

Maximize Your Writing 1 provides students with instruction and practice in developing their academic writing skills. The four Maximize Your Writing  Workbooks feature useful strategies and abundant practice, helping student become confident and successful writers. This flexible four-level workbook series can be used with any other writing textbooks and integrated skills courses. Highlights Clear skill presentations provide explanation and give students extra reinforcement. Abundant practice with punctuation, mechanics, and sentence structure helps students build skills necessary for creating well-developed and clear writing. Clear grammar presentations and engaging exercises help students develop the essential grammar for building writing skills. Paragraph organization sections include extensive practice that helps students create well-designed and coherent pieces of writing. Writing assignments allow students to apply skills in writing paragraphs and essays. Pre- and post-tests provide formative assessment at the beginning of the course and summative assessment at the end. Timed and untimed writing options allow students to practice writing coherently and fluently under timed conditions. - from Amzon