More support for moving from paragraph to essay. The new chapter, “Patterns of Essay Development,” provides nine complete model student essays, one for each rhetorical mode. Now students have more support for moving from paragraphs to essays, with thorough instruction and examples for every stage of the essay writing process as well as for every stage of the paragraph writing process.
Expanded use of TEST for essays. The very popular and successful tool students applied to their paragraphs in the first edition now works for essays as well. Students test their essays for Thesis, Evidence, Summary statement, and Transitions. Again, this easy-to-remember tool helps students to see where their drafts need more work.
New contemporary readings range from the simple to the more challenging and include “My Two Lives” by Jhumpa Lahiri; “'But What Do You Mean?'” by Deborah Tannen; and “Impounded Fathers” by Edwidge Danticat.
New strategy questions help students develop critical reading and thinking skills. Focusing on mode, structure and style, these questions follow the readings, emphasizing the reading-writing connection.
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