The Student Writer (The Student Writer: Editor and Critic) - Softcover

Clouse, Barbara Fine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072414022 ISBN 13: 9780072414028

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2000

Synopsis

This rhetoric/reader/handbook features a true balanced approach that helps students to discover their own successful writing process, and at the same time learn the qualities of effective writing. Numerous strategies are presented for idea generation, organizing, drafting, revising, editing and proofreading. The rhetorical modes are presented within the context of a writer's purpose and audience. Woven throughout the text are a generous number of student and professional essays to serve as both models and departure points for writing assignments, and a wide variety of activities for completion both in and out of the classroom. A concise handbook providing a full range of exercises, including paragraphs to edit.

About this title

About the Author

Barbara Fine Clouse is a frequent conference presenter and seasoned writing instructor who has taught all levels of college composition, first at Youngstown State University in northeastern Ohio and then at Slippery Rock University in western Pennsylvania. In addition to this new edition of THE STUDENT WRITER: Editor and Critic, Barbara has written a number of composition texts for McGraw-Hill, including WRITING: FROM INNER TO OUTER WORLD, PATTERNS FOR A PURPOSE: A Rhetorical Reader, JUMPSTART! A Workbook for Writers WORKING IT OUT: A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers, a short prose reader for developmental students, which is avialable on Primis, McGraw’s electronic database. Barbara's publications also include the fourth edition of PROGRESSIONS for Allyn & Bacon.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072414022
• ISBN 13: 9780072414028
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 560