Reading and Writing in the Academic Community - Softcover

Kennedy, Mary Lynch; Smith, Hadley M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131931334 ISBN 13: 9780131931336

Publisher: Pearson, 2005

Synopsis

For first semester or second semester Freshman Composition courses that emphasize Writing Across the Curriculum.

 

Reading and Writing in the Academic Community is the guide to writing across the curriculum with the best coverage of the writing process.

 

Reading and Writing in the Academic Community is a comprehensive rhetoric with engaging, timely readings.  The authors wrote their book to include more coverage of the writing process to better meet the needs of students than other books in this market.  The text presents the major types of academic writing students encounter as undergraduates while giving full consideration to the writing process and the basics of rhetoric.  This text makes few assumptions about students' prior academic experience and provides explicit, step-by-step instruction in paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing essays in response to readings, composing synthesis essays, and using sources to compose comparison-and-contrast essays, argument essays, analysis essays, evaluation essays, and research papers.

 

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From the Back Cover

"Reading and Writing in the Academic Community" is a comprehensive rhetoric with engaging, timely readings. The authors wrote their book to include more coverage of the writing process. This text provides explicit, step-by-step instruction in paraphrasing, summarizing, quoting, writing essays in response to readings, composing synthesis essays, and using sources to compose comparison-and-contrast essays, argument essays, analysis essays, evaluation essays, and research papers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131931334
• ISBN 13: 9780131931336
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 544