Author: Lynn Quitman TroykaPublisher: Pearson College Division
ISBN: 9780130493019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
Simon and Schuster Handbook for Writers
Author: Lynn Quitman TroykaPublisher: Pearson College Division
ISBN: 9780130493019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
Everything's an Argument
Author: Andrea A. LunsfordPublisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319413285
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Everything’s an Argument helps students analyze arguments and create their own, while emphasizing skills like rhetorical listening and critical reading. The text is available for the first time in Achieve, with downloadable e-book, grammar support, interactive tutorials, and more.
Revision
Author: Alice HorningPublisher: Parlor Press LLC
ISBN: 1932559779
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Explores the wide range of scholarship on revision while bringing new light to bear on enduring questions in composition and rhetoric.
Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum
Author: Charles BazermanPublisher: Parlor Press LLC
ISBN: 9781932559422
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This reference guide traces the "Writing Across the Curriculum" movement from its origins in British secondary education through its flourishing in American higher education and extension to American primary and secondary education.
EasyWriter
Author: Andrea A. LunsfordPublisher: Bedford
ISBN: 9781319149505
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A little handbook offering reliable, easy-to-find writing advice for university and beyond, in an easy to use and affordable format. Andrea Lunsford meets students where they are with friendly advice, research-based tips for solving the Top Twenty writing problems, and an emphasis on making effective rhetorical choices. The seventh edition puts even more emphasis on empowering students to become critical thinkers and ethical communicators with new advice about fact checking and evaluating sources and more advice about choosing language that builds common ground. In addition, the seventh edition offers more support for writing in a variety of disciplines and genres and more models of student writing to help students make effective choices in any context. Suitable for students looking to focus their writing or those looking for a pocket-sized quick reference, this book will help students make effective choices for academic work and understand the conventions of formal written English.
Information Literacy
Author: Barbara J. D'AngeloPublisher: CSU Open Press
ISBN: 9781607326571
Category : Information literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Bringing together scholarship and pedagogy from a multiple of perspectives and disciplines to provide a broader and more complex understanding of information literacy and suggests ways that teaching and library faculty can work together to respond to the rapidly changing and dynamic information landscape"--Provided by publisher.
Everything's an Argument with 2020 APA Update
Author: Andrea A. LunsfordPublisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319366996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Streamlined and current, Everything’s an Argument helps students understand and analyze the arguments around them and raise their own unique voices in response. Lucid explanations cover the classical rhetoric of the ancient Greeks through the multimodal rhetoric of today, with professional and student models of every type. More important than ever, given today’s contentious political climate, a solid foundation in rhetorical listening skills teaches students to communicate effectively and ethically. Thoroughly updated with fresh new models, this edition of Everything’s an Argument captures the issues and images that matter to students today. LaunchPad for Everything’s an Argument provides unique, book-specific materials for your course, such as brief quizzes to test students’ comprehension of chapter content and of each reading selection. LearningCurve--adaptive, game-like practice--helps students master important argument concepts, including fallacies, claims, and evidence. Also available in a version with a five-chapter thematic reader.
EasyWriter with 2020 APA Update
Author: Andrea A. LunsfordPublisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319370381
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
When your students need reliable, easy-to-find writing advice for college and beyond, EasyWriter gives them what they need in a format that’s easy to afford. Andrea Lunsford meets students where they are with friendly advice, research-based tips for solving the Top Twenty writing problems, and an emphasis on making effective rhetorical choices. The seventh edition puts even more emphasis on empowering students to become critical thinkers and ethical communicators with new advice about fact checking and evaluating sources and more advice about choosing language that builds common ground. In addition, the seventh edition offers more support for writing in a variety of disciplines and genres and more models of student writing to help students make effective choices in any context. This version of EasyWriter, Seventh Edition has been revised to align with the 2020 update of the APA Formatting and Style Guide.
The Little, Brown Essential Handbook, Sixth Canadian Edition (MLA Update)
Author: Jane E. AaronPublisher:
ISBN: 9780134681788
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
T he Little, Brown Essential Handbook offers students the essential information they need to develop basic writing, research, and documentation skills. Useful for any level of writing or discipline, it covers academic writing, the writing process, grammar and usage, punctuation, research writing, and documentation--all in a user-friendly, accessible format. The convenient pocket size, four-colour design, spiral binding, and numerous reference aids make the book practical and easy to use--a resource students will actually reference. KEY TOPICS: Academic writing; Writing arguments; Writing in the disciplines; Presenting Writing; Emphasis; Conciseness; Parallelism; Variety and details; Appropriate words; Exact words; Verbs; Forms; Tenses; Mood; Voice; Subject--verb agreement; Pronouns; Forms; Pronoun--antecedent agreement; Pronoun reference; Modifiers; Adjectives and adverbs; Misplaced and dangling modifiers; Sentence faults; Fragments; Comma splices and fused sentences; The comma; The semicolon; The colon; The apostrophe; Quotation marks; End punctuation; Other marks; Spelling and the hyphen; Capital letters; Italics or underlining; Abbreviations; Numbers; Research strategy; Tracking Sources; Finding sources; Evaluating and synthesizing sources; Integrating sources into your text; Avoiding plagiarism; Documenting your sources; MLA documentation and format; APA documentation and format; Chicago documentation and format; CSE and IEEE documentation; Writing Online; Oral Communication; Writing for business MARKET: An essentials handbook suitable for use as a student reference and text for composition courses offered at the college and university level.
The Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader, Research Manual, and Handbook
Author: X. J. KennedyPublisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 131948543X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1780
Book Description
All the tools you need for college writing The Bedford Guide for College Writers offers a comprehensive resource with all the tools you need for first-year writing and beyond. This flexible volume includes four books in one with a writing guide, reader, research manual, and handbook.