Download or read book A Short Guide to College Writing written by Sylvan Barnet and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the high-quality, low-priced entries in Longman's Penguin Academics Series,A Short Guide to College Writingis a clear and authoritative brief rhetoric that emphasizes analysis, argument, and research in academic writing. Brief, high-quality rhetoric with lower price. Drafting, revising, research, documentation. General Interest.
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Download or read book The Academic Writer s Handbook written by Leonard J. Rosen and published by Pearson Higher Ed. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. With its unique focus on source-based writing and writing across the curriculum, the third edition of The Academic Writer’s Handbook contains all the features of a traditional handbook combined with the tools students need in order to read, write, and conduct research in the disciplines.
Download or read book The Writer s Brief Handbook written by Alfred F. Rosa and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1998 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This versatile resource covers the writing process in depth and employs a wealth of writing samples to establish realistic expectations for writing. Readers will learn how to recognize and correct errors in their own writing. It also includes full chapters on using libraries, the research paper, and the most-current MLA, APA, and Chicago documentation styles, including citing electronic sources. Also covered in depth are sexism and bias in language as well as ESL problems and computer tips.
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Download or read book What Matters in America written by Gary Goshgarian and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter titles posed as questions invite students to read and write critically about 10 high-interest topics including media and the culture of fear, campus speech codes, gay marriage, and the role of privacy in our lives. Compact in both page count and trim size, In Brief¿s themes examine popular culture topics and provide a sufficient number of selections to make sure topics are given with adequate depth.
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Download or read book The Brief Penguin Handbook with Exercises written by Lester Faigley and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2009 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lester Faigley understands how students learn best. The design and approach of The Brief Penguin Handbook started with ideas and suggestions from real students, and thus it is uniquely successful when it comes to giving students the information they need in a format they will actually use. This handbook continues to innovate in its design as well as its content to make handbook topics accessible. The book enhances visual examples, a new section on writing across the curriculum, more student samples than ever, and expands documentation coverage including a new five-step guide to the documentation process. Research coverage has also been augmented to acknowledge that students begin their research online rather than in the library, and new "staying on track" boxes have been added to help students check themselves and avoid getting lost in the writing process.
Download or read book First Year Composition written by Deborah Coxwell-Teague and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice’s combination of theory and practice provides readers an opportunity to hear twelve of the leading theorists in composition studies answer, in their own voices, the key question of what it is they hope to accomplish in a first-year composition course. In addition, these chapters, and the accompanying syllabi, provide rich insights into the classroom practices of these theorists.
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Download or read book The College Writer s Reference written by Toby Fulwiler and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2008 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Freshman Composition courses. Focuses on undergraduate writers' needs through a process approach, examining the different but overlapping stages of planning, composing, researching, revising, and editing. Backed by Toby Fulwiler's 35 years of experience as a composition teacher and Alan Hayakawa's 25 years as a practicing journalist, The College Writer's Reference continues to do what it does best: explaining and illustrating the qualities of good contemporary writing as well as the traditional logic behind the conventions of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and usage. The text focuses on undergraduate writers' needs through a process approach, examining the different but overlapping stages of planning, composing, researching, revising, and editing. Taking this approach into account, the authors have found it easy to see that students who know how to analyze and address individual rhetorical situations are more likely to succeed both across the curriculum and in the world beyond college.
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Download or read book Pocket Reference for Writers written by Toby Fulwiler and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Pocket Reference for Writers" offers you the best coverage of the writing process in a pocket-sized handbook. This inexpensive reference can be used in any of your writing-intensive courses across the curriculum. It is also available in a longer spiral-bound version ("College Writer's Reference") or a comprehensive version ("The Blair Handbook"). www.prenhall.com/ipractice offers self-graded exercises, useful web links, and additional online resources.
