Gives students the tools they need to work seriously with texts. Writing in Response is ideal for composition courses that ask students to work with readings—particularly challenging, academic ones--because it provides numerous strategies and activities for critically reading, reflecting on, and responding to texts. With thorough guidance on active reading, students learn to connect the texts they read to the texts they write in response.
Presents an accessible model of academic writing. Throughout, Writing in Response offers practices that help students view the writing process as dialogic (including engagement with other texts), nonlinear (with overlapping phases), and recursive (embedding revision as an essential component). Writing in Response also provides practical strategies for style so that students can work at revising sentences for clarity and vigor. Additionally, “Try This” activities in each chapter give students ample opportunities to practice reflecting and composing.
Reading selections help students learn and master skills. Writing in Response includes 9 sample student papers, 9 professional essays, and numerous brief samples, providing good models of thinking while offering possibilities for student response. Selections include Adam Gopnik on the increasing busyness of everyday life and Kathyrn Schulz on the meaning of “error.”
Help for understanding research. Checklists and summary boxes provide a practical reference for such topics as evaluating evidence and developing an argument. Two chapters provide guidance for finding, incorporating, and documenting sources in MLA, APA, and Chicago style as well as model student papers.
A great package option. Writing in Response can be combined with any Bedford/St. Martin’s reader at a discount.