A Brief Guide to Writing from Readings

A Brief Guide to Writing from Readings
Author: Stephen Wilhoit
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This brief text teaches students how to write the most common papers assigned in college courses: source-based essays that summarize, analyze, critique, and synthesize. Comprehensive enough to serve as a primary text yet compact enough to serve as a supplement, this guide teaches students how to critically read texts, accurately quote and paraphrase material, clearly summarize, carefully respond to, precisely critique, and creatively synthesize readings. A Brief Guide is a valuable teaching and reference tool that students of many disciplines will find useful for class work and for independent study.

A Brief Guide to Writing from Readings

A Brief Guide to Writing from Readings
Author: Stephen Wilhoit
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780205319077

Teaches how to write common papers.& MLA, APA, and CBE documentation styles; Argument coverage, including Toulmin; Argument Synthesis; Rhetorical Analysis.& General Interest, Writing &

Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students

Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students
Author: David Starkey
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1460405226

This is a book for real students, people with full and active lives. Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students covers the basics of the introductory college writing course in a concise, student-friendly format. Each chapter concentrates on a crucial element of composing an academic essay and is capable of being read in a single sitting. The book also includes numerous “timesaver tips,” along with warnings about frequent student errors—all designed to help students make the most of one of their most limited and precious resources: time.

The Norton Field Guide to Writing

The Norton Field Guide to Writing
Author: Richard Harvey Bullock
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780393919561

Flexible, easy to use, just enough detail--and now the number-one best seller.

Brief Guide to Writing from Readings, A, MLA Update Edition

Brief Guide to Writing from Readings, A, MLA Update Edition
Author: Stephen Wilhoit
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-06-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9780134586557

This brief guide teaches how to write the most common papers assigned in college courses: source-based essays that summarize, analyze, critique, and synthesize. Comprehensive enough to serve as a primary text yet compact enough to serve as a supplement, this clear and concise writing guide teaches you how to critically read, clearly summarize, carefully respond to, precisely critique, creatively synthesize, and accurately quote or paraphrase texts. A Brief Guide is a valuable teaching and reference tool that many disciplines find useful for class work and for independent study

Writing about Literature with 2009 MLA Update

Writing about Literature with 2009 MLA Update
Author: Janet E. Gardner
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2009-06-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0312607571

Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Writing about Literature introduces strategies for reading literature, explains the writing process and common writing assignments for literature courses, provides instruction in writing about fiction, poetry, and drama, and includes coverage of writing a research paper and of literary criticism and theory. This volume in Bedford/St. Martin’s popular series of Portable Anthologies and Guides offers the series’ trademark combination of high quality and great value for teachers looking to assign supplementary instruction on reading and writing about literature to their students.

The Bedford Book of Genres with 2021 MLA Update

The Bedford Book of Genres with 2021 MLA Update
Author: Amy Braziller
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 1200
Release: 2021-09-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1319463215

This ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021). Bedford Book of Genres is a multimodal text that uses guided readings and processes and a new Part Two on the writing process to teach students to read and write in any genre.

An Insider's Guide to Academic Writing

An Insider's Guide to Academic Writing
Author: Susan Miller-Cochran
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 763
Release: 2018-09-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1319230768

Valued for its clear, accessible presentation of disciplinary writing, the first edition of An Insider’s Guide to Academic Writing was celebrated by adopters at two-year and four-year schools alike. With this second edition, the authors build on that proven pedagogy, offering a series of flexible, transferable frameworks and unique Insider’s video interviews with scholars and peers that helps students to adapt to the academic writing tasks of different disciplinary discourse communities - and helps instructors to teach them. New to the second edition is additional foundational support on the writing process, critical reading, and reflection, to give students stronger tools to apply to their disciplinary writing. An Insider’s Guide to Academic Writing is based on the best practices of a first-year composition program that has trained hundreds of teachers who have instructed thousands of students. Use ISBN 978-1-319-05355-0 to get access to the online videos for free with the brief text and ISBN 978-1-319-05354-3 for the version with readings.

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing
Author: Sylvan Barnet
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-08-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781457649974

PACKAGE THIS TITLE WITH OUR 2016 MLA SUPPLEMENT, Documenting Sources in MLA Style (package ISBN-13: 9781319084370). Get the most recent updates on MLA citation in a convenient, 40-page resource based on The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition, with plenty of models. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN. Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing is a compact but complete guide to critical thinking and argumentation. Comprising the text portion of the widely adopted Current Issues and Enduring Questions, it draws on the authors’ dual expertise in effective persuasive writing and comprehensive rhetorical strategies to help students move from critical thinking to argumentative and researched writing. This extraordinarily versatile text includes comprehensive coverage of classic and contemporary approaches to argument, from Aristotelian to Toulmin, to a new chapter on rhetorical analysis of pop culture texts, as well as 35 readings (including e-Pages that allow students to take advantage of working with multimodal arguments on the Web), and a casebook on the state and the individual. This affordable guide can stand alone or supplement a larger anthology of readings.