Patterns for College Writing

Patterns for College Writing
Author: Laurie G. Kirszner
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 837
Release: 2011-12-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0312676840

Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, authors with nearly thirty years of experience teaching college writing, know what works in the classroom and have a knack for picking just the right readings. In Patterns for College Writing, they provide students with exemplary rhetorical models and instructors with class-tested selections that balance classic and contemporary essays. Along with more examples of student writing than any other reader, Patterns has the most comprehensive coverage of active reading, research, and the writing process, with a five-chapter mini-rhetoric; the clearest explanations of the patterns of development; and the most thorough apparatus of any rhetorical reader, all reasons why Patterns for College Writing is the best-selling reader in the country. And the new edition includes exciting new readings and expanded coverage of critical reading, working with sources, and research. It is now available as an interactive Bedford e-book and in a variety of other e-book formats that can be downloaded to a computer, tablet, or e-reader. Read the preface.

Speak Up

Speak Up
Author: Douglas M. Fraleigh
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 787
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0312621884

When was the last time you actually looked forward to reading a textbook? With "Speak Up", thousands of students have been doing just that -- getting more out of their speech courses and having fun while doing it. It's a different kind of textbook, combining great writing and examples with more than 500 hand-drawn illustrations that bring speechmaking to life. It's all designed to help you ace the course and prepare you to speak effectively on campus, on the job, and beyond. -- From publisher's description.

Scientific American: Presenting Psychology

Scientific American: Presenting Psychology
Author: Deborah Licht
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 2489
Release: 2021-10-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1319424945

Written by two teachers and a science journalist, Presenting Psychology introduces the basics to psychology through magazine-style profiles and video interviews of real people, whose stories provide compelling contexts for the field’s key ideas.

Loose-leaf Version for How to Write Anything with 2020 APA Update

Loose-leaf Version for How to Write Anything with 2020 APA Update
Author: John J. Ruszkiewicz
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-04-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1319368913

Instructors at hundreds of colleges and universities have turned to How to Write Anything for clear, focused writing advice that gives students just what they need, when they need it. And students love it—because John Ruszkiewicz’s tone makes writing in any genre approachable, with a flexible, rhetorical framework for a range of common academic and real-world genres, and a reference with extra support for writing, research, design, style, and grammar. The new edition is accompanied and enhanced by LaunchPad for How to Write Anything, an online course space of pre-built units featuring the full e-text, multimodal readings, and adaptive LearningCurve activities to help students hone their understanding of reading and writing. The new edition also gives students more support for writing portfolios, more help working with the concept of genre, and more emphasis on critical reading and writing—all essential to academic success. And you’ll find more teaching ideas and syllabi from the community of teachers led by coauthor Jay Dolmage. The result is everything you need to teach composition in a flexible and highly visual guide and reference.

Experiencing the Lifespan

Experiencing the Lifespan
Author: Janet Belsky
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 591
Release: 2009-10-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1429219505

This book explores the lifespan by combining research with a practicing psychologist's understanding of human development from infancy to old age.

Reflect & Relate

Reflect & Relate
Author: Steven McCornack
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 1248
Release: 2018-10-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1319103502

In Reflect & Relate, distinguished teacher and scholar Steve McCornack provides students with the best theory and most up-to-date research and then helps them relate that knowledge to their own experiences. Engaging examples and a lively voice hook students into the research, while the book's features all encourage students to critically reflect on their own experiences. Based on years of classroom experience and the feedback of instructors and students alike, every element in Reflect & Relate has been carefully constructed to give students the practical skill to work through life’s many challenges using better interpersonal communication. The new edition is thoroughly revised with a new chapter on Culture; new, high-interest examples throughout; and up-to-the-moment treatment of mediated communication, covering everything from Internet dating to social media.

The Concise Guide to Writing

The Concise Guide to Writing
Author: Rise B. Axelrod
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1996
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780312116040

The second edition of The Concise Guide to Writing helps students through all phases of the writing process. With new chapters on justifying an evaluation, reading critically, conducting research in the library and on the internet, and citing sources, this flexible rhetoric offers valuable information for first-year composition courses.

MCAT 528 Advanced Prep 2021–2022

MCAT 528 Advanced Prep 2021–2022
Author: Kaplan Test Prep
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1506274382

Always study with the most up-to-date prep! Look for MCAT 528 Advanced Prep 2023-2024, ISBN 9781506276793, on sale November 1, 2022.

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.