Author: Gayle Feng-Checkett File Type: pdf Clear, simple, and straightforward, this developmental writing book includes thorough coverage of the writing process, numerous opportunities for grammar practice, a variety of writing opportunities, and contemporary, interesting readings.ReviewI think the greatest strengths of the text are the readings that clearly illustrate a variety of different types of writing and step-by-step approach to building sentences. Also, the Writers Resource section is an excellent resource for the students who typically take this class.Over the many years I have taught developmental English (specifically writing), and with my years of using different texts, The WRITE START, SENTENCES TO PARAGRAPHS, is still the most appropriate text for my course.Its a reader, a handbook, a rhetoric, and a style manual all in one. About the AuthorGayle Feng-Checkett is originally from California and received her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Spanish from the University of Redlands in 1974. She received her M.A. in English with a minor in Spanish from the University of North Dakota and continued her graduate work with studies in Teaching English as a Second Language. Feng-Checketts special interests in teaching are in Composition, Comparative Literature, and Teaching English as a Second Language.Lawrence Checkett is originally from St. Louis and received his undergraduate degree in English from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. While an undergraduate, Checkett helped publish the first student art magazine containing original stories, poems, art, and photography by fellow students. He did graduate work at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Webster University where he received his M.A. degree in Literature. While at Webster University, he was the first assistant editor on the newly created Webster Review, now in its 30th year of production. He has completed post-graduate work through California State University, studying literature, music, architecture, history, and film.

Author: Jane MacLaren Walsh File Type: pdf Eugene Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures. He also invented an entire category of archaeological artifact the Aztec crystal skull. By his own admission, he successfully palmed off a number of these crystal skulls on the curators of Europes leading museums. How could that happen, and who was this man? Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugene Boban this book also explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century. **Review An excellent biography of a little-known but important figure in the nineteenth-century history of American archaeology Norman Hammond, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University About the Author Jane MacLaren Walsh, anthropologist emerita at the Smithsonian Institutions National Museum of Natural History, is an internationally recognized authority on crystal skulls and other fake pre-Columbian antiquities. Her most recent research combines geology and archaeology in a study of the iconic stone faces of Teotihuacan.