More support for academic writing
- Three brief chapters focus on important academic skills. Synthesis Papers shows students how to summarize, compare, and assess the views offered by different sources. Critical Thinking lays out rhetorical appeals and logical fallacies, and an Annotated Bibliography chapter gives guidelines for this popular research assignment.
- New Strategies chapter addresses rhetorical strategies that work across genres, including comparison and contrast, classification, description, definition, and division.
- New visual tutorials illustrate documenting a wider range of electronic sources.
New Genre chapter and a wider range of genres make the text more flexible and provide students with more support. The new reference chapter, Genre, defines this key concept and discusses why it matters. New genres, including Annotated Bibliography and Synthesis papers, provide students with additional models, assignments, and contexts for understanding how genres function, change, and ultimately let writers do the work they want to do.
More advice for students using multimedia
- Two new reference chapters, Understanding Digital Media and Digital Elements, explore audio, video, blogs, and Wikis.
- All genre chapters now feature multimodal assignment options, for example constructing an evaluation in which a visual comparison plays a major role.
New readings serve as models of the genres and engage students with fresh topics including Nicholas Carr on whether the internet is making us stupid; Philip de Loria on the Cherokee Nation Decision, and Gish Jen on the legacy of Holden Caufield.
New “Your Turn” activities give students more help applying the advice in the book and let students try out genres and strategies before tackling a complete assignment.
New e-book will offer exciting options for instructors including additional readings and assignments, multimodal projects, interactive grammar exercises, video tutorials, and more. The e-book is part of a robust suite of online resources that includes CompClass, the online course space for How to Write Anything, Second Edition, and the book’s free companion Web site, including model documents, downloadable revision guidelines, peer-review games and a wealth of other useful and practical resources.