Steps To Writing Well With Additional Readings - With Cd - 6th edition

Summary: The informal, student-friendly tone of this rhetorically-organized rhetoric/reader/handbooks provides step-by-step instructions on writing a variety of short, 500-800-word essays. This is a text that both students and instructors can use easily.

Benefits:

• NEW! A new four color design makes this book even easier for instructors to teach from and easier for students to learn from.
• N ...show moreEW! 20 new readings include selections by Andrew Merton, Gretel Ehrlich, and Garrison Keillor, among others.
• Praised by users, the precise and clear instruction in each chapter facilitates student learning.
• Meaningful exercises and writing assignments throughout the text help students practice what they have learned. Covers the kinds of essays that are frequently assigned in the beginning writing classroom.
• 18 student and 55 professional samples provide models of good writing.
• A brief handbook shows students how to correct the most common errors in grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
• Available with or without readings, the text gives instructors flexibility in structuring the class and can easily accommodate all teaching styles.
• NEW! Four color art has been added, including the use of visuals as writing prompts.
• NEW! A new Chapter 32, "Writers and Language," contains essays that exemplify this type of writing.
• NEW! A new section on analogy has been added to the discussion of comparison and contrast in Chapter 9. "Exposition."
• NEW! Information on interviewing appears in Chapter 14, "Writing a Paper Using Research."
• NEW! A new section in Chapter 8, "The Reading-Writing Connection" gives advice on getting the most from class discussions.
• NEW! A new Chapter 17, "Writing About Film," gives students instruction on how to review and write about movies.
• NEW! Includes the latest MLA documentation style updates.
• NEW! 50 percent of the exercises in the handbook portion are new.

Edition/Copyright: 6TH 05
Cover: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth, Inc
Published: 09/28/2004

Other Editions of Steps To Writing Well With Additional Readings - With Cd:

Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings - Text - 7 edition

ISBN13: 978-1413030563