A comprehensive text for first-year composition, with detailed coverage of the writing process, the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and research and documentation. Accessible and high-interest professional and student essays provide models for student writers. The complete edition also features a useful handbook with exercises.
More help with reading and study skills than any other book of its kind. A comprehensive Guide to Active Reading (chapter 3) covers crucial strategies that are then reinforced in every assignment chapter. Coverage of study skills and time management (chapter 1) provide key support and survival strategies for college work and beyond.
Visual tools help student analyze readings and write their own essays. Unique graphic organizers show the relationships among ideas in each type of writing. Revision flowcharts guide students systematically in revising their own essays or reviewing those of others. And each chapter begins with a Writing Quick Start activity, consisting of engaging images and a related assignment, to introduce students to the chapter topic and get them writing immediately.
Guided Writing Assignments and readings for ten different types of essays. Students receive step-by-step advice on planning, drafting, and revising an essay in each rhetorical pattern and literary analysis essay. 66 engaging brief professional and student readings provide strong rhetorical models. Annotations of student essays use color screens to point out writers’ strategies and features of the rhetorical patterns.
A unique emphasis on learning styles. Understanding that different people learn in different ways — such as abstractly or concretely, verbally or spatially — helps boost students’ confidence. The Learning Style Inventory helps students identify their strengths and preferences, and Learning Style Options throughout the text give specific suggestions for applying these strengths to writing tasks.