A comprehensive guide to writing designed for introductory composition courses. This all-in-one text offers hallmark coverage of the purposes of writing, focusing on the importance of a writer's research, critical-reading skills, the ability to organize ideas, and a strategy to assess and develop rhetorical contexts. While the guide emphasizes traditional writing purpose and process, the authors also consider the technological changes that influence and enhance contemporary writing, including expanded coverage of researching, evaluating, and documenting Internet sources. The first Canadian edition not only highlights good writing by Canadians but also provides further insights into Canadian culture and ideas.

The Prentice Hall Canada Guide for Student Writers

Reference

Reid, Stephen P.

Gossin, Enid

Stancer, Susan

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Pearson Education Canada

Focused on both traditional writing purpose and process as well as on the technological resources that influence and enhance contemporary writing, this compact, all-in-one guide offers comprehensive coverage of the purposes of writing?with a focus on the importance of a writer's research, critical-reading skills, the ability to organize ideas, and a strategy to assess and develop rhetorical contexts. Each self-contained chapter takes readers through a sequenced series of specific purpose-based writing tasks?complete with professional and student samples, rhetorical techniques, journal exercises, reading and writing activities, revision suggestions, etc. Includes nearly a hundred short quotations by composition teachers, researchers, essayists, novelists, and poets on the nature of writing. A complete reference handbook provides a review of basic sentence elements, sentence structure and grammar, diction and style, punctuation and mechanics. Writing Myths and Rituals. Purposes and Processes for Writing. Observing. Remembering. Reading. Investigating. Explaining. Evaluating. Problem Solving. Arguing. Responding to Literature. Writing a Research Paper. Writing Under Pressure. Handbook. For anyone needing guidance in the writing process.

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Sixth Edition

Pearson College Div

This innovative reader focuses on writers' purposes and processes for reading and writing, and on the connections between, reading and writing. Every chapter integrates purpose, process, and rhetorical strategies for achieving specific writing goals. Sixty-four selections by both professional and student writers illustrate these purposes. The readings address reading and writing purposes and processes, observing, remembering, investigating, explaining, evaluating, problem solving, and arguing. For those interested in improving their reading, writing and research abilities.

Purpose and Process: A Reader for Writers (5th Edition)

Words, Language & Grammar

Pearson

Each essay in the Purposes Pocket Reader has withstood the test of time and teaching, making it the perfect companion for any writing course. This reference is the perfect way to bring additional readings to writing courses.

Purposes Pocket Reader (7th Edition)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Focusing on purpose, situation, techniques, and processes in each self-contained chapter, "The Prentice Hall Guide" guides students step by step through their assignments.Organized by writers' purposes (to explain, to evaluate, to argue, etc.), "The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers" foregrounds rhetorical awareness and asks students to consider their purpose, audience, and genre every time they write. In each "writing project" chapter, they are also walked through the process of inventing, researching, drafting, peer reviewing and revising. And in each project chapter, techniques and rhetorical modes particularly useful in accomplishing the writer's purpose are suggested. This consistent and detailed guidance supports students throughout each of their major course projects and provides all instruction in one place so that they never need to flip between chapters.

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Focusing on purpose, situation, techniques, and processes in each self-contained chapter, The Prentice Hall Guide guides students step by step through their assignments. Organized by writers’ purposes (to explain, to evaluate, to argue, etc.), The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers foregrounds rhetorical awareness and asks students to consider their purpose, audience, and genre every time they write. In each “writing project” chapter, they are also walked through the process of inventing, researching, drafting, peer reviewing and revising. And in each project chapter, techniques and rhetorical modes particularly useful in accomplishing the writer’s purpose are suggested. This consistent and detailed guidance supports students throughout each of their major course projects and provides all instruction in one place so that they never need to flip between chapters.

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Focusing on purpose, situation, techniques, and processes in each self-contained chapter, The Prentice Hall Guide guides students step by step through their assignments.       Organized by writers’ purposes (to explain, to evaluate, to argue, etc.), The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers foregrounds rhetorical awareness and asks students to consider their purpose, audience, and genre every time they write. In each “writing project” chapter, they are also walked through the process of inventing, researching, drafting, peer reviewing and revising. And in each project chapter, techniques and rhetorical modes particularly useful in accomplishing the writer’s purpose are suggested. This consistent and detailed guidance supports students throughout each of their major course projects and provides all instruction in one place so that they never need to flip between chapters.

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For courses in first-year Composition and Rhetoric. A practical, step-by-step approach with writer’s purpose at the core With new forms of delivery and expression changing the expectations of writers and audiences, the definition of “writing” continues to evolve – and so must today’s writers. The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Eleventh Edition helps students navigate this territory by asking them to consider purpose, audience, and genre every time they write. Each project chapter guides students with a series of assignments, aligned with WPA Recommended Outcomes for First-year Writing. Also available with MyWritingLab™ This title is also available with MyWritingLab – an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. In addition to the full eText, activities directly from the text are available within MyWritingLab. These include written assignments, readings from the text, review exercises, and more. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyWritingLab does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyWritingLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyWritingLab, search for: 0134216571 / 9780134216577 Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, The , Plus MyWritingLab -- Access Card Package consists of: <ul>
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DelliCarpini, Dominic

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