Strategies for College Writing and Thesaurus Package (2nd Edition)

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Day, Susan X.

Funk, Robert W.

Coleman, Linda S.

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Pearson

Employing an approach that is firmly process-oriented and interactive, this anthology presents extended, lively essays meant to spur ideas for writing, suggest ways to approach a topic, and illustrate methods for organizing and presenting information. It incorporates high-interest reading material with creative activities; traditional concerns about correctness, coherence, and meaning; and step-by-step writing assignments. A key objective of the book is to integrate reading and writing more closely and usefully than most other readers on the market today. Key coverage includes a writer's approach to analytical reading; a concise survey of the writing process; and a contextual study of the major rhetorical strategies for effective reading and writing. For writers and business professionals responsible for writing, preparing, and/or analyzing documents.

Strategies for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader

McMahan, Elizabeth

Day, Susan

Allyn&Bacon

This anthology presents extended, lively essays meant to spur ideas for writing, suggest ways to approach a topic, and illustrate methods for organizing and presenting information. It incorporates high-interest reading material with traditional concerns about correctness, coherence, and meaning; and step-by-step writing assignments that guide readers and writers in composing successful papers. Approximately sixty readings address a variety of current topics, from the ordinary (french fries, shopping) to the controversial (immigration, the Internet). Many of these essays include proven favorites by Langston Hughes, Gary Soto, Joan Didion, Alice Walker, Diane Ackerman, Amy Tan, Lewis Thomas, Mark Twain, John Holt, Stephanie Ericsson, Scott Russell Sanders, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Bharati Mukherjee. Others feature new favorites by Bill Bryson, Malcolm Gladwell, William Finnegan, Phyllis Rose, Stephen King, Amy Wu, Steve Silberman, Claudia Dreifus, Ian Frazier, and Thad Williamson. For readers and writers interested in a wide range of issues and strategies, expanding their perspectives, and building lifelong reading and writing skills.

Strategies for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader (2nd Edition)

Words, Language & Grammar

This book introduces readers and writers to the techniques of discourse analysis, genre theory, and primary (including ethnographic) and secondary research. It also engages learners in extensive practice and a sequence of increasingly complex and comprehensive “Writer's Profiles,” ending with a researched literature review and argument. Two casebooks offer illustrative and thematically-linked readings from a wide variety of public and professional sources. The bonk contains a broad-based sampling of academic writing, and professional and public genres—journal essays, fact sheets, newsletters, Web sites, and proposals. For individuals taking stock of their acquired personal skills and those required of professionals in the writing careers to which they aspire.

Professional and Public Writing: A Rhetoric and Reader for Advanced Composition

Literature & Fiction

This book combines creative, up-to-date writing instruction using short, high-interest readings that provide ideas for writing, suggest ways to approach a topic, and show how to organize and present information. Topics include: active reading, the reading-writing connection, narration and description, example and illustration, definition and explanation, classification and division, comparison and contrast, process and direction, cause and effect, and argument and persuasion. For anyone interested in improving their writing skills.

The Simon & Schuster Short Prose Reader

Funk, Robert

Longman Pub. Group

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McMahan Deceased, Elizabeth

History & Criticism

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