Quick Access, Reference for Writers - Softcover

Troyka, Lynn Quitman; Hesse, Doug

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131952269 ISBN 13: 9780131952263

Publisher: Pearson, 2006

Synopsis

For Freshman-level writing courses, such as Freshman Composition, English Composition, First-Year Writing, Expository Writing, or any course where students need help with the writing.

 

Now in its fifth edition, Quick Access is written by trusted authors Lynn Troyka and Doug Hesse.  Quick Access is a brief, spiral-bound, tabbed (12 tabs) handbook, published in full color.  Quick Access is also accompanied by a valuable supplements and media package, including an interactive eBook, a personal writing plan, tutoring, and tools on the Web.

 

The Troyka/Hesse family of handbooks provides the most balanced coverage of writing process, grammar, research, and topics important to today’s students.  Both respected teachers and authors, Troyka and Hesse give practical advice to students about the writing they will do in composition courses, in other classes, and in the world beyond.  Offering instructors a full range of choices in handbooks, the Troyka/Hesse family of handbooks is available in a variety of formats, including web-based and customized options, so instructors can select the handbook that best fits their course needs.

 

There are many roads to good writing.  Choose the most balanced handbook in the most useful format for you and your students.

 

Part of the MyCompLab Series

Student edition now availble with MyCompLab and e-book, at no additional cost. Providing more opportunities for practice, assessment and instruction than any similar site, MyCompLab is a dynamic online resource for the Composition course.  It offers market-leading tools for improving grammar, writing and research skills with comprehensive results tracking so students and instructors can gauge student progress.  Easy to use and easy to integrate into the classroom, MyCompLab engages students as it builds confidence and helps them to be better writers and researchers.  MyCompLab is an incredible value for your students – we'll provide them with pre-paid access when they purchase a new Prentice Hall English textbook. Visit MyCompLab at www.mycomplab.com

 

About this title

Review:

“This is the best of the brief handbooks available.”

Dr. Harryette Brown Dallas County Community College

 

“The strengths of this text are good language level and tone, nice examples of different

types of writing, logical fallacies, essay structure, etc...Strong section on argument, which can be

less than appealing to teach and read about.  Your coverage is interesting and useful”

Lisa McRaven Ozarks Technical Community College

 

 “The “Writing to Connect with the World” section reminds students that the need for good

writing continues afterschool...The greatest strength is the ease of use and narrative that

doesn’t “talk down” to students.”

Ruth Gerick University of Texas Arlington

 

“I think the handbook is one of the best on the market, which is why NHC adopted it. Strong

examples and in such an engaging format is what makes Quick Access a superior resource.”

Joyce Boatright North Harris College

 

“The acknowledgement of changes in the arena of writing to include more info about the web

and about writing that employs images–this is realistic and useful for today’s classes...I plan

to adopt.”

Diana Grumbles Southern Methodist University

 

“The coverage of plagiarism is, in my opinion, excellent.”

Joel B. Henderson Chattanooga State Technical Community College

 

“I think this is the best writing handbook on the market for clear, straightforward, and accurate

demonstration of the writing process. “

Ruth Gerick

University of Texas Arlington

 

“Quick Access seems to be much more detailed and could better stand alone [than my current

text]. It is very easy to use and takes good consideration of nonnative speaker populations.”

Kimberly Strain University of Minnesota

 

“The ESL Notes add helpful information, expanding the explanation for those who do not speak

English as their first language.”

Dorothy Minor  Tulsa Community College

 

“The section on working in the disciplines would almost sell me this book on its own.”

Lisa McRaven Ozarks Technical Community College

 

 

“I think this text’s inclusion of the research checklist, numerous examples, and screen shots - assists in student understanding and sets this text apart from its competitors.”

Joel B. Henderson Chattanooga State Technical Community College

 

About the Author:

LYNN QUITMAN TROYKA, Professor of Writing, at the City University of New York (CUNY), has taught at Queensborough Community College and in the graduate Language and Literacy program at City College. Former editor of the Journal of Basic Writing, her writing and research appears in major journals and various scholarly collections. She conducts workshops in the teaching of writing. Lynn is co-author of Quick Access Reference for Writers, Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall (2007), QA Compact, First Edition, Prentice Hall (2007), Canadian editions of her Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers and Quick Access Reference for Writers, Structured Reading, Seventh Edition, Prentice Hall (2007), and Steps in Composition, Eighth Edition, Prentice Hall (2004).  Dr. Troyka received the 2001 CCCC Exemplar Award, the highest CCCC award for scholarship, teaching, and service; the Rhetorician of the Year Award; and the TYCA Pickett Award for Service. She is a past chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC); the Two-Year College Association (TYCA) of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE); the College Section of NCTE; and the Writing Division of the Modern Language Association.  ”This information,” says Dr. Troyka, “tells what I’ve done, not who I am. I am a teacher. Teaching is my life’s work, and I love it.”

 

 

 

 

DOUG HESSE, Professor of English and Director of Writing at the University of Denver as of fall 2006, previously held several positions at Illinois State University, including Director of the Honors Program, Director of Writing Programs, and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching. Dr. Hesse earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.  In addition to teaching at Illinois State, he’s also taught at the University of Findlay, Miami University (as Wiepking Distinguished Visiting Professor), and Michigan Tech.  Dr. Hesse has had numerous national leadership roles in the teaching of writing. He is past Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), the nation’s largest professional association of college writing instructors. A past president, as well, of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA), Hesse edited that organization’s journal, Writing Program Administration. He is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Executive Committee and the Modern Language Association (MLA) Division on Teaching as a Profession Executive Committee. He is the author of 45 articles and book chapters, in such journals as College Composition and Communication, College English, JAC, Rhetoric Review, the Journal of Teaching Writing, and others, and in such books as Essays on the Essay; Writing Theory and Critical Theory; The Writing Program Administrator’s Sourcebook; Literary Nonfiction; The Private, the Public, and the Published; Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies; and others. He is also co-author, with LynnTroyka, of the Quick Access Reference for Writers, Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall (2007) and Quick Access Compact, First Edition, Prentice Hall (2007). Illinois State University named him Outstanding University Researcher.  “Of all these accomplishments,” says Dr. Hesse, “the one that matters most to me is being named Distinguished Humanities Teacher at Illinois State. That one came from my students and suggests that, in however small a way, I’ve mattered in their educations and lives.”

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0131952269
• ISBN 13: 9780131952263
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 576