Writing Today

Writing Today
Author: Richard Johnson-Sheehan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 736
Release: 2018
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780134759739

Steps for Writers

Steps for Writers
Author: Phillip Eggers
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780205875191

Every developing writer is different and has specific needs. Whether students lack confidence, are overconfident, or come to the course under prepared in grammar and process, writing their own event. By organizing Steps for College Writers around three phases of college writing—finding one's own writing process, writing essays based on one's own experience and perceptions, and writing essays involving texts and research, Phil Eggers aims to transform writing into an intrinsic experience for today's developing writers. His graduated approach to grammar and writing teaches students the basic of composing solid paragraphs and essays by allowing students to mature in the process and build confidence. Grammar correctness and peer review are heavily emphasized, and student and professional models are incorporated throughout the text to show “real” writing. Note: This ISBN is a package. 020587519X / 9780205875191 Steps for Writers: Composing Essays, Volume 2 (with MyWritingLab Pearson eText Student Access Code Card) Package consists of: 0205074634 / 9780205074631 Steps for Writers II: Composing Essays 0205752624 / 9780205752621 MyWritingLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card

The Academic Writer's Handbook

The Academic Writer's Handbook
Author: Leonard J. Rosen
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Academic writing
ISBN: 9780205599103

With its unique focus on source-based writing and writing across the curriculum, 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.

Writing for Life

Writing for Life
Author: D. J. Henry
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-11-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9780205727865

Students are motivated to improve their writing through the interaction with real-life writing situations and a visual pedagogy system that enables them to transfer familiar learning tactics to the instruction. Real-life writing situations with assignments pulled from college, work, and everyday life. Paragraph-to-essay level writing courses.

Write Time, Write Place

Write Time, Write Place
Author: Mimi Markus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Academic writing
ISBN: 9780321908506

Write Time, Write Place complements writing and grammar instruction with carefully selected readings and activities that will encourage students to read, think critically, and write at a college level.

Along These Lines

Along These Lines
Author: John Sheridan Biays
Publisher: Pearson Education Canada
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2012-06-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0205923968

Along These Lines is a great, all-around introduction to paragraph and essay writing for first year and ESL students. Its accessible, workbook style presents a clear, step-by-step introduction to the stages of the writing process. The word lines in the title refers to these stages, which are called Thought Lines, Outlines, Rough Lines, and Final Lines, and serve as convenient prompts for each stage. The Fourth Canadian Edition features new readings, additional content on plagiarism, and an increased focus on reading and writing to help prepare students for essay writing. MyCanadianWritingLab is not included with the purchase of this product.

Writing Situations

Writing Situations
Author: Sidney I. Dobrin
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9780321937582

Bridge from everyday writing to writing in any situation. College students write regularly in personal and social settings, but they often find it challenging to transition successfully to academic contexts. By building from their everyday writing experience, Writing Situations with MyWritingLab prepares students to analyze, navigate, and write effectively in any situation. Author Sid Dobrin presents a rhetorical situation both nuanced and practical, grounded not only in audience, purpose, and context but also impacted by medium, methodology, and relationships among stakeholders. Writing Situations provides a framework and a process for students to apply to any writing project and any situation. Teaching and Learning Experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience for you and your students. Robust resources improve students' writing and allow instructors to track results. WithinMyWritingLab, students can measure how well they understand key concepts while faculty can incorporate rubrics into meaningful assignments, grade based on desired criteria, and analyze class performance through advanced reporting. Pedagogical support helps students develop their writing process. Each project chapter includes five visual features (Road to a Strong Thesis, Side by Side, Mapping Your Situation, Prepare and Respond, and Writing Process Guidelines) that help students analyze, navigate, and respond to diverse writing situations while building an effective writing process. A variety of writing assignments accommodate a range of teaching approaches. Formal assignments in each project chapter include a traditional academic essay, a project focused on using visuals, an online or digital variation, a research-based option, and a "radical revision/ translation" project to turn a print-based essay into a multimodal project. Next generation instructor support. Contextualized and integrated instructor support includes videos, screencasts, PowerPoints, downloads, handouts for each assignment chapter--organized by chapter and housed in one place -- http: //www.pearsonhighered.com/dobrin1einfo/ -- for instructor ease of use.

Writing Today, MLA Update Edition

Writing Today, MLA Update Edition
Author: Richard Johnson-Sheehan
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-08
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780134586410

For courses in English Composition. This version of Writing Today has been updated to reflect the 8th Edition of the MLA Handbook (April 2016)* Organized by genre--practical for college and career Writing Today , 3rd Edition introduces individuals to the conventions of writing memoirs, profiles, literary analyses, arguments, research papers, and more. Each chapter features a step-by-step process for composing within a given genre, as well as exemplary professional readings to promote rhetorical knowledge and critical analysis. The 42 short chapters, the chunked writing style, and visual instruction work to ensure that individuals will transfer the skills and strategies practiced to their lives and careers. From its graphic "Quick Start Guides" to its "Write This" prompts, Writing Today challenges individuals to extend the boundaries of their writing abilities as they practice composing for the real world. * The 8th Edition introduces sweeping changes to the philosophy and details of MLA works cited entries. Responding to the "increasing mobility of texts," MLA now encourages writers to focus on the process of crafting the citation, beginning with the same questions for any source. These changes, then, align with current best practices in the teaching of writing which privilege inquiry and critical thinking over rote recall and rule-following.

Writing Today

Writing Today
Author: Richard Johnson-Sheehan
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 736
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780134770772

Reflect, Inform, Persuade + Mywritinglab Access Card

Reflect, Inform, Persuade + Mywritinglab Access Card
Author: Elizabeth R. Kessler
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780134016580

Reflect, Inform, Persuade examines the purposes for writing while demonstrating the varying processes writers employ to reach an end. The low price and practical three-part organization makeReflect, Inform, Persuade an option for a variety of interests or course objectives. Author Elizabeth Kessler hones in on three important points: improving academic writing skills; writing for various purposes, gradually moving from self to a focus on the wider world; and using materials that can be used as models for good writing. 0134016580 / 9780134016580 Reflect, Inform, Persuade: College Writing Today Plus MyWritingLab -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0133933296 / 9780133933291 MyWritingLab Generic without Pearson eText -- Glue-In Access Card 013393330X / 9780133933307 MyWritingLab Generic -- Inside Star Sticker 0321198980 / 9780321198983 Reflect, Inform, Persuade: College Writing Today