Author: Todd Taylor
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Published: 2018-09-21
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1319220932
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on 100 interviews with students who had recently finished first-year writing, Todd Taylor's groundbreaking multimedia text is shaped by student writers like no other textbook before. Their words and voices--in brief videos and example texts--create a conversation about writing that asks students to engage with other college writers personally, learning from their challenges and successes. Conceived as a multimedia text in LaunchPad from the outset, the brief, modular chapters are organized into four parts that support the best practices and content areas in the CWPA Outcomes Statement -- Rhetoric, Context, Process, and Convention -- so that you and your students have just what you need in one resource to support writing, working with sources, and multimodal composing.
Author: Randall VanderMey
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 712
ISBN-13: 9780618642052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →[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.
Author: Howard Tinberg
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2010-02-18
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 0809329565
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While there have been several studies of writing programs at larger, baccalaureate institutions, the community college classroom has often been overlooked. Authors Howard Tinberg and Jean-Paul Nadeau fill this gap with The Community College Writer, a systematic and unique case study of first semester writing students at a community college. Drawing on surveys, interviews, and samples of classroom assignments, Tinberg and Nadeau use their research at one community college to reach out to instructors throughout the nation, fostering communication between community college faculty members in the effort to establish full-fledged writing programs geared toward student success. At the heart of the book are the voices of the students themselves, as they discuss both their teachers’ expectations and their own. Through a series of case studies, the authors reveal the challenges students face as budding writers, and their firsthand experiences with writing programs at the community college level. With this informative study, Tinberg and Nadeau seek not only to encourage dialogue between student and teacher or community college instructors, but to expand the conversation about program improvement to include both two- and four-year colleges, bringing composition faculty together in an effort to improve writing programs in all schools. Included in the volume are seven appendices, including surveys and interviews with faculty and students, making The Community College Writer a comprehensive and practical guide to tackling the issues facing writing programs and instructors.
Author: Ethan Sawyer
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1492635138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Writing an amazing college admission essay is easier than you think! So you're a high school senior given the task of writing a 650-word personal statement for your college application. Do you tell the story of your life, or a story from your life? Do you choose a single moment? If so, which one? The options seem endless. Lucky for you, they're not. College counselor Ethan Sawyer (aka The College Essay Guy) will show you that there are only four (really, four!) types of college admission essays. And all you have to do to figure out which type is best for you is answer two simple questions: 1. Have you experienced significant challenges in your life? 2. Do you know what you want to be or do in the future? With these questions providing the building blocks for your essay, Sawyer guides you through the rest of the process, from choosing a structure to revising your essay, and answers the big questions that have probably been keeping you up at night: How do I brag in a way that doesn't sound like bragging? and How do I make my essay, like, deep? Packed with tips, tricks, exercises, and sample essays from real students who got into their dream schools, College Essay Essentials is the only college essay guide to make this complicated process logical, simple, and (dare we say it?) a little bit fun.
Author: Patrick Sullivan
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780814156766
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A sequel to What Is "College-Level" Writing? (2006), the essays in this collection focus on matters that English teachers concern themselves with every day: assignments, readings, and real student writing."
Author: Mike Bunn
Publisher: The Saylor Foundation
Published:
Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When you Read Like a Writer (RLW) you work to identify some of the choices the author made so that you can better understand how such choices might arise in your own writing. The idea is to carefully examine the things you read, looking at the writerly techniques in the text in order to decide if you might want to adopt similar (or the same) techniques in your writing. You are reading to learn about writing. Instead of reading for content or to better understand the ideas in the writing (which you will automatically do to some degree anyway), you are trying to understand how the piece of writing was put together by the author and what you can learn about writing by reading a particular text. As you read in this way, you think about how the choices the author made and the techniques that he/she used are influencing your own responses as a reader. What is it about the way this text is written that makes you feel and respond the way you do?
Author: Peder Jones
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002-10
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9780939693573
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →College Writing Skills uses explanation, demonstration, and practice to teach skills essential to success in college writing. For this course Peder Jones and Jay Farness have constructed a framework of rhetoric--work in composing paragraphs and essays--around disciplined study of sentences and words. The authors have sought in each section of the book to combine the most useful features of contemporary and traditional approaches to college English. Their overall aim is to enable the beginning college writer to compose clear and effective sentences, paragraphs, and compositions. This new edition of College Writing Skills is a refinement of the four previous editions; it has been shaped by helpful comments from students and instructors who have used the course. Exercises have been updated, and many minor changes for clarity have been made. Basic features of this text have not changed, however. As a hybrid of textbook and workbook, it continues to stress focused practice leading to directed independent composing activities; it emphasizes student writing rather than students reading about writing. This emphasis translates into more than 500 sets of exercises, more than 100 optional workshop activities, and an Appendix covering special problems in the acquisition of English. The exercises in this textbook embody our belief that practice is crucial to improving one's writing skills. Accordingly, this text provides practice in forming ideas, in getting ideas our one's head and onto paper, in experimenting with various sentence structures in order to achieve clarity, in following models of correct grammar and effective style, and in making the writing process pay off through effective revision and editing. A Collegiate Press book
Author: Carol Burnell
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781636350288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.
Author: Randall VanderMey
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 696
ISBN-13: 9780495803416
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Combining streamlined basic writing instruction with outstanding accessibility, THE COLLEGE WRITER is an all-in-one writing resource for students at any skill level. The clear visual format helps students grasp larger concepts by linking them to pertinent examples. Throughout the text, numerous student and professional writing samples highlight important features of academic writing--from voice to documentation--and offer models for students' own papers. This edition also features new Cross-Curricular Connections that explain how particular modes of writing or types of research relate to a specific discipline in the college curriculum, preparing students for success across the academic spectrum. Benefits: NEW! The MLA documentation reflects significant changes in the new MLA HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS OF RESEARCH PAPERS, 7E, published in March 2009. Featuring a unique "at-a-glance" format, tabbed sections, a friendly "coaching tone," and a colorful design rich with visuals, THE COLLEGE WRITER presents concepts succinctly and memorably, giving students confidence in their developing research, writing, and critical-thinking skills. Sample paragraphs and visuals walk students through each rhetorical situation--from planning and drafting all the way through revising, editing, and proofreading. The authors' coverage of various research methods, highlighted by student and professional writing examples, includes extensive instruction on how to work with and evaluate print and online sources, integrate them effectively, and document them correctly. Throughout the text, the authors offer cross-curricular writing instruction that points out the similarities and differences students should be aware of when conducting research and writing for different disciplines. The end-of-text Handbook covers key points of grammar, mechanics, and punctuation. These topics are reinforced by exercises available on the Book Companion Website. NEW! The MLA document