1. Alice Oshima | Ann Hogue
Longman Academic Writing Series
Alice Oshima | Ann Hogue
Paragraphs to
Essays 3
PEARSON

2. Ch1 Academic Paragraphs

3. Ch1 Academic Paragraphs2

4. Ch1 Academic Paragraphs
Complete the chart with nouns and verbs.
contribution
education
improve
revolutionize 3

5. Ch1 Academic Paragraphs
Complete the chart with nouns. Use: -or/-er, -tion/
-sion/ -ication, -ance/-ence, -ism, -ment, -ness.
assistance
beutification
brightness
criticism
excitement
leader
simplification 4

6. Page Format for Handwritten Work.5

7. Page Format for Work Done on a Computer6

8. Ch1 Academic Paragraphs
Copy nine words or groups of words that begin with a
capital letter from page 9. Add the capitalization rule.
El Salvador—place on a map
San Salvador—place on a map
United States—place on a map
New York—place on a map
Aunt Rosa—title and name of a person
Brooklyn—place on a map
City College—name of a school
English—name of a language 7
Spanish—name of a language

9. Ch1 Academic Paragraphs
Find the errors in capitalization. Make Corrections.
2. Her major is business.
3. Thanksgiving is a holiday in both Canada and the United States, but it is
celebrated on different days in the two countries.
4. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States and
on the second Monday in October in Canada.
5. Istanbul is a seaport city in Turkey.
6. Greenhills College is located in Boston, Massachusetts.
7. I am taking four classes this semester: American history, Sociology 32,
Economics 40, and a digital product design course.
8. I just read a good book by Ernest Hemingway called The Old Man and the Sea.
9. My roommate is fron the South, so she speaks English with a southern accent. 8
10. The two main religions if Japan are Buddhism and Shintoism.

10. Ch1 Academic Paragraphs
Find errors in capitalization. Make corrections.
I enjoyed reading your paragraph. You are the first person from Central America I have met. I was living in Chicago before I moved here last December. Until now, everyone in my English classes came from Asian countries, such as China, Thailand, and Vietnam, or from countries in the Middle East. I would like to know more about your goals. For example, I want to know how a nurse is different from a nurse practitioner. I would also like to know how many science classes you need to take after Biology 101 to become a nurse practitioner.
In your paragraph, you say that your only special talent is speaking Spanish, but I think you have other talents if you are going to work in the field of medicine. Your science classes will enable you to get a job, but being able to take care of others is a very special talent.
Christine Li 9

11. Ch1 Academic Paragraphs
Underline the subjects and double underline the verbs.
Put parentheses around the prepositional phrases.
3. Audiences loved the film and the characters (in it).
4. George Lucas wrote the story and planned the special effects.
5. He worked (with talented artists and engineers).
6. Lucas and his team designed and built an imaginary world (of good and evil).
7. (In the original Star Wars), Luke Skywalker becomes a freedom fighter.
8. The heroes (in Luke Skywalker’s life) are Jedi knights.
9. Darth Vader represents the evil Empire and always wears black.
10. (At the end of the film), moviegoers applauded the defeat (of the evil Empire). 10

12. Ch1 Academic Paragraphs
Circle the correct noun or verb form. Put parentheses
around the prepositional phrases.
( )
( )
( )
( )
( ) 11

13. Ch1 Academic Paragraphs
Underline the subject and circle the correct verb form. 12

14. Ch1 Academic Paragraphs
Editing a Paragraph for Errors in Subject-Verb Agreement
Ch1 Academic Paragraphs
Find errors and make corrections.
Golf is no longer just a favorite sport of wealthy middle-aged businessmen or senior citizens. Young people around the world are playing the game, and some of them have caused a lot of excitement. One of the young stars is Sergio Garcia, a fascinating golfer from Spain. Garcia was born in 1980 and started golfing at the age of three. He became a professional golfer in 1999 at the age of 19. Garcia caught the world’s attention by hitting a golf shot at a target from behind a tree with his eyes closed.
Two other young golf stars are Michelle Wie and Ryo Ishikawa. Both of them are quite different from the traditional golfer. Wie, born in Hawaii in 1989, is Korean-American. She shocked everyone by competing against men—and beating many of them—at the age of fourteen. Today she is one of the world’s best female golfers. Ishikawa is a professional Japanese golfer who was born in In 2007, he became the youngest player ever to win a professional golf tournament in Japan. Each of his victories since then has shown his incredible athletic skill, and he has become a favorite with fans. In 2011, after a terrible earthquake in Japan, Ishikawa impressed his fans once again by promising to donate all of the money he earned that year to help the earthquake victims. Of course there are still older golfers who continue the traditions of the sport, but these three young athletes show how golf is changing. 13

15. Ch1 Academic Paragraphs
Read and decide if it is a complete sentence or a
fragment. Write X for the sentence fragments.
Correct the fragments by adding a subject or a verb.
3.City Year volunteers work in the United States,
England, and South Africa. X X
4. For example, they help elementary and middle school
children with their homework. X
5. They are role models for young children.
7. City Year is an excellent way for university students
to learn from life experiences. X X
8. At the end of their City Year, they receive money to
pay for their university tuition. 14

16. Ch1 Academic Paragraphs
Find fragments and make corrections.
It was
was is
We telephone 15

17. Ch1 Academic Paragraphs
A. Complete the chart with nouns and verbs.
Noun
Verb
bravery
brave
creation；creativity；creator
create
encouragement
encourage
enjoyment
enjoy
equality
1.equal
2.equalize
length
lengthen
1.modernism
2.modernization
modernize
transformation
transform 16

18. Ch1 Academic Paragraphs
B. Write sentences that explain how these famous
people made a difference in the world.
1. Steve jobs transformed the music
industry with the Apple iPod.
2. J. K. Rowling created Harry Potter and
changed the way young people feel
about reading.
3. Thomas Alva Edison lengthened our days.
He invented the electric light bulb.
4. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for
equality of all people.
5. Pablo Picasso helped to make modernism
a popular style of art in the early 20th
century. 17