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Textbooks

 

The following books by Amy Lynn Hess are currently available for purchase in electronic format and in print.  

Diagramming Sentences: A Playful Way to Analyze Everyday Language

Print and Kindle Edition Available

ISBN-13-9781495336744

This 12-chapter textbook teaches sentence diagramming from beginning concepts to advanced sentence structures. It was written and designed by an experienced teacher of Developmental English. The methods and lessons have been classroom tested, revised, and published here as a complete sentence diagramming textbook. 

 

In addition to examples and explanations, there are 10 exercise sentences for students to study and diagram per chapter, and there are additional questions for review that cover all levels of the Taxonomy. Answer keys appear in the text! There are also four comprehensive quizzes included at the end of the text that can be used as pretests or exams. 

 

Diagramming sentences is appropriate for language learners from age 9 to 99, making it a great tool for teachers, parents, students, and lifelong learners. 

 

Specific topics include simple and compound subjects and predicates, modifiers, direct and indirect objects, object complements, predicate adjectives and predicate nominatives, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, interrogative sentences, appositives, direct address, existential constructions, prepositions and prepositional phrases, gerunds and gerund phrases, noun and modifying clauses. 

 

Professor Hess has been teaching English and Critical Thinking since 2008, developing, refining, and creating the materials contained in this book: twelve chapters packed full of illustrations, explanations, practice sentences, and review materials.

Additional Exercises for Diagramming Sentences: A Playful Way to Analyze Everyday Language

Print and Kindle Edition Available

This is the supplemental materials text for Diagramming Sentences: A Playful Way to Analyze Everyday Language. It includes 150 additional exercises and examples for diagramming sentences, plus comprehensive exercises, identification exercises, and comprehensive multiple choice exercises. The additional exercises and examples align, chapter by chapter, with the main text. 

 

Specific topics include simple and compound subjects and predicates, modifiers, direct and indirect objects, object complements, predicate adjectives and predicate nominatives, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, interrogative sentences, appositives, direct address, existential constructions, prepositions and prepositional phrases, gerunds and gerund phrases, noun and modifying clauses.

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Write Outside: Outdoor Activities and Writing Prompts for English Composition

Print Edition Available

ISBN 978-1792489945

Write Outside is a handbook for college-level English composition courses. In addition to providing explanations and examples of effective writing strategies, the text includes outdoor activities and writing prompts that bridge and reinforce those key concepts.

The book’s contents are divided into three sections based on three core concepts of English composition:

  • Modes of Communication

  • Rhetorical Appeals

  • The Writing Process


Each section has been further divided into chapters that can be completed in any order, or the chapters can be used as supplemental readings, assignments, or bridging exercises in coordination with other texts. Key words and phrases that may be unfamiliar to students have been indexed.

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The College Journal

Print Edition Available

ISBN 978-1081525026

The College Journal is a fill-in-the-blank journal specifically designed for college students. It includes prompts and templates intended to raise self awareness, help students take financial responsibility, and help them stay on top of tasks, deadlines, meetings, and assignments.

 

Keeping track of life during college is hard, but writing things down can make it a bit easier. The hard part is establishing a writing habit and knowing what to write down and how often. What makes this journal easy to use is that it is already planned and has been divided into three categories: Academic Calendar, Weekly Review, and Dailies. It already includes fill-in-the-blank pages with prompts and templates. 

 

After completing the initial set-up of the semester’s dates, a student might spend between 10 and 30 minutes on journal entries each day, depending on the depth to which the journal is used, how pretty and colorful the student wants to make it, and how exactingly they keep track of their time, habits, and finances.

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