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

Reference

Stephen P. Reid

Words, Language & Grammar

Prentice Hall College Div.

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.

Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers

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The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers [hardcover] Reid, Stephen [Aug 01, 1997] ... 0130966398

For one/two-semester Freshman Composition courses. This best-selling writing guide integrates purpose, process, and rhetorical strategies into every chapter, offering students-as well as new instructors-the clearest explanation of writing. In addition to emphasizing critical reading, every major chapter contains professional and student samples, rhetorical techniques, journal exercises, reading and writing activities, collaborative activities, peer-response guidelines, revision suggestions, and a student essay in each chapter contains writing process materials (outlines, audience analysis, interview notes, drafts, revision plans, etc.).

Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers: Brief Edition without Handbook (6th Edition)

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

This critical thinking journal, in conjunction with the text, prepares writers to challenge comfortable assumptions, to ask the hard questions as they solve the problems in reading, writing, and thinking that they face in a college writing course. It provides students with additional exercises and freewriting activities, as well as opportunities to consider and respond to opposing viewpoints.

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers: Critical Thinking Skills Journal

Gives students access to the Reid OneKey WebCT course. OneKey is our new comprehensive website at www.prenhall.com/reid providing quizzes and exercises to help students better understand the readings in the main text as well as to reinforce knowledge of the writing process, grammar, and punctuation. Also included and new to this edition are access to personal tutoring, a paper review and exchange tool, visual exercises, additional assignments, exercises and readings, model student essays, an online version of the Critical Skills Thinking Journal, a research tool (Research Navigator) complete with the New York Times archive, a bibliography generator and plagiarism tutorial, a mini-handbook and more. The instructor manual for this text is posted on a protected instructor-only version of this site. Also available at www.prenhall.com/reid is an unrestricted access site that contains select quizzes and exercises.

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The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers

Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers

Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers

Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers: Brief Edition without Handbook (6th Edition)

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers: Critical Thinking Skills Journal

Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers

Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, The