A comprehensive guide to writing for one- or two-semester freshman composition courses. This all-in-one text offers hallmark coverage of the purposes of writing, focusing on the importance of a writer's research, critical-reading skills, the ability to organize ideas, and a strategy to assess and develop rhetorical contexts. While the guide emphasizes traditional writing purpose and process, the author also considers the technological changes that influence and enhance contemporary writing, including expanded coverage of researching, evaluating, and documenting internet sources.

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers : Brief Fifth Edition

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Stephen P. Reid

Words, Language & Grammar

Prentice-Hall

Focused on both traditional writing purpose and process as well as on the technological resources that influence and enhance contemporary writing, this compact, all-in-one guide offers comprehensive coverage of the purposes of writing?with a focus on the importance of a writer's research, critical-reading skills, the ability to organize ideas, and a strategy to assess and develop rhetorical contexts. Each self-contained chapter takes readers through a sequenced series of specific purpose-based writing tasks?complete with professional and student samples, rhetorical techniques, journal exercises, reading and writing activities, revision suggestions, etc. Includes nearly a hundred short quotations by composition teachers, researchers, essayists, novelists, and poets on the nature of writing. A complete reference handbook provides a review of basic sentence elements, sentence structure and grammar, diction and style, punctuation and mechanics. Writing Myths and Rituals. Purposes and Processes for Writing. Observing. Remembering. Reading. Investigating. Explaining. Evaluating. Problem Solving. Arguing. Responding to Literature. Writing a Research Paper. Writing Under Pressure. Handbook. For anyone needing guidance in the writing process.

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers

Prentice Hall College Div

Focused on both traditional writing purpose and process as well as on the technological resources that influence and enhance contemporary writing, this compact, all-in-one guide offers comprehensive coverage of the purposes of writing?with a focus on the importance of a writer's research, critical-reading skills, the ability to organize ideas, and a strategy to assess and develop rhetorical contexts. Each self-contained chapter takes readers through a sequenced series of specific purpose-based writing tasks?complete with professional and student samples, rhetorical techniques, journal exercises, reading and writing activities, revision suggestions, etc. Includes nearly a hundred short quotations by composition teachers, researchers, essayists, novelists, and poets on the nature of writing. A complete reference handbook provides a review of basic sentence elements, sentence structure and grammar, diction and style, punctuation and mechanics. Writing Myths and Rituals. Purposes and Processes for Writing. Observing. Remembering. Reading. Investigating. Explaining. Evaluating. Problem Solving. Arguing. Responding to Literature. Writing a Research Paper. Writing Under Pressure. Handbook. For anyone needing guidance in the writing process.

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers [hardcover] Reid, Stephen [Aug 01, 1997] ... 0130966398

For one/two-semester Freshman Composition courses. This best-selling writing guide integrates purpose, process, and rhetorical strategies into every chapter, offering students-as well as new instructors-the clearest explanation of writing. In addition to emphasizing critical reading, every major chapter contains professional and student samples, rhetorical techniques, journal exercises, reading and writing activities, collaborative activities, peer-response guidelines, revision suggestions, and a student essay in each chapter contains writing process materials (outlines, audience analysis, interview notes, drafts, revision plans, etc.).

Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers: Brief Edition without Handbook (6th Edition)

This critical thinking journal, in conjunction with the text, prepares writers to challenge comfortable assumptions, to ask the hard questions as they solve the problems in reading, writing, and thinking that they face in a college writing course. It provides students with additional exercises and freewriting activities, as well as opportunities to consider and respond to opposing viewpoints.

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers: Critical Thinking Skills Journal

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The Reid Guide for College Writers [RENTAL EDITION]

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The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers : Brief Fifth Edition

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers

Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers: Brief Edition without Handbook (6th Edition)

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers

The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers: Critical Thinking Skills Journal

The Reid Guide for College Writers [RENTAL EDITION]