The Academic Writer

The Academic Writer
Author: Lisa Ede
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781319037208

The Academic Writer is a brief guide that prepares students for any college writing situation through a solid foundation in rhetorical concepts. By framing the reading and composing processes in terms of the rhetorical situation, Lisa Ede gives students the tools they need to make effective choices. With an emphasis on analysis and synthesis, and making and supporting claims, students learn to master the moves of academic writing across mediums. A new chapter on "Strategies for Multimodal Composing" and advice on writing in a multimodal environment throughout the text help instructors take students into new contexts for reading and composing. New coverage of drafting, editing, and revising, and updated coverage of academic research--including the 2016 MLA guidelines--ensures that students are supported at all stages of the writing process.

Arguing About Literature: A Guide and Reader

Arguing About Literature: A Guide and Reader
Author: John Schilb
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-12-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781319035327

More and more, first- year writing courses foreground skills of critical analysis and argumentation. In response, Arguing about Literature first hones students’ analytical skills through instruction in close critical reading of texts; then, it shows them how to turn their reading into well-supported and rhetorically effective argumentative writing. From the authors of the groundbreaking and widely adopted Making Literature Matter, Arguing about Literature economically combines two books in one: a concise guide to reading literature and writing arguments, and a compact thematic anthology of stories, poems, plays, arguments, and other kinds of texts for inquiry, analysis and research. The second edition includes even more instruction in the key skills of argumentation, critical reading, and research, while linking literature more directly to the newsworthy current issues of today.

An Insider's Guide to Academic Writing: A Rhetoric and Reader

An Insider's Guide to Academic Writing: A Rhetoric and Reader
Author: Susan Miller-Cochran
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2015-10-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780312566760

Click here to explore the book. All academic writing requires skills in critical thinking, close reading, argumentation and research, but disciplinary differences among the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and applied fields leave students and instructors frustrated by a one-size-fits-all approach to these skills. For writing programs committed to preparing students for the full range of disciplines they will enter, An Insider’s Guide to Academic Writing presents a proven pedagogy that helps students to adapt to the academic writing tasks of different disciplinary discourse communities. The pedagogy features a series of flexible, transferable frameworks and concrete connections to the disciplines including unique Insider’s video interviews with scholars and peers. Based on the best practices of a first-year composition program that has trained hundreds of teachers who have instructed thousands of students, An Insider’s Guide to Academic Writing offers two books in one: an innovative rhetoric of academic writing (available as its own book), and a thematic reader that foregrounds real readings from the disciplines. 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.

The College Writer

The College Writer
Author: Randall VanderMey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-01-10
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780618642021

[This text] provide[s] coverage of the writing process for today's visually oriented students. The text also included a wealth of rhetorical strategies that instructors and students found accessible and helpful. [It] reinforces these strengths with enhanced coverage of many important topics such as analyzing the rhetorical situation, evaluating sources, avoiding plagiarism, and developing visual literacy.-Pref.

An Insider's Guide to Academic Writing

An Insider's Guide to Academic Writing
Author: Susan Miller-Cochran
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2015-10-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781319020309

Based on the best practices of one of the most innovative and productive first-year composition programs in the U.S., An Insider’s Guide to Academic Writing: A Brief Rhetoric is the ideal way to prepare students no matter which discipline they are entering. Through a series of flexible, transferable frameworks and concrete connections to the disciplines—including unique Insider’s video interviews with scholars and peers—it helps students use a rhetorical lens to adapt to the academic writing tasks of different disciplinary discourse communities. In addition to this brief, rhetoric-only version, The Insider’s Guide is also available with a thematic reader that foregrounds real readings from the disciplines. Use ISBN 978-1-319-02030-9 for this version without readings.

An Insider's Guide to Academic Writing + Launchpad for an Insider's Guide to Academic Writing, Six Months Access

An Insider's Guide to Academic Writing + Launchpad for an Insider's Guide to Academic Writing, Six Months Access
Author: Susan Miller-Cochran
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781319223380

Praised for its accessible approach to teaching disciplinary writing, the first edition of An Insider's Guide to Academic Writing was embraced by instructors and students at two-year and four-year schools alike. With its flexible, transferable frameworks and unique Insiders video interviews with scholars and peers, the text enables students -- and their instructors -- to adapt to a variety of writing situations in different disciplinary discourse communities.In the second edition, the authors build on that proven pedagogy with additional support for the writing process, critical reading, and reflection, to give students even more help with academic writing, no matter the discipline. Featuring two books in one, an innovative rhetoric for academic writing (available as its own book) and a thematic reader with readings from the disciplines, 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. Also new to the second edition: a Launchpad with a complete e-book, in addition to modules about writing in applied fields.