Writing Today - Softcover

Johnson-Sheehan, Richard; Paine, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0134759737 ISBN 13: 9780134759739

Publisher: Pearson, 2018

Synopsis

This print textbook is available for students to rent for their classes. The Pearson print rental program provides students with affordable access to learning materials, so they come to class ready to succeed.

Practical writing skills for composing in the real world
Writing Today is an accessible text that fits the way today's students read and learn ― and the way today's instructors teach. Its chunked writing style, eye-catching design, and focus on writing genres, strategies, and processes sets up students for success in their college courses, careers, and civic lives. The 4th edition marks a turning point with a new focus on reflection, or discovering why we think the way we do. As students explore this theme, they build their intellect, while becoming more aware, versatile, and resilient.

Writing Today, 4th Edition, is also available via Revel^®, an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience.

About this title

About the Author

About our authors

Richard Johnson-Sheehan is a Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University. There, he has directed the Introductory Composition program and served as the Director of the Purdue Writing Lab and the Purdue OWL. He teaches a variety of courses in composition, professional writing, medical writing, environmental writing and writing program administration, as well as classical rhetoric and the rhetoric of science. He has also published widely in these areas.

Johnson-Sheehan's books on writing include Argument Today, coauthored by Charles Paine; Technical Communication Today, now in its fifth edition and Writing Proposals, now in its second edition. He was awarded the 2008 Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. In 2017, he was awarded the J.R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Society for Technical Communication.

Charles Paine is a Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, where he directs the Core Writing and the Rhetoric and Writing programs. He teaches first-year composition and courses in writing pedagogy, the history of rhetoric and composition and many other areas. His published books span a variety of topics in rhetoric and composition, including The Resistant Writer (a history of composition studies), Teaching with Student Texts (a coedited collection of essays on teaching writing) and Argument Today (an argument-based textbook).

An active member of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA), he has served on its Executive Board and as coleader of the WPA Summer Conference Workshop. He cofounded and coordinates the Consortium for the Study of Writing in College, a joint effort of the National Survey of Student Engagement and the Council of Writing Program Administrators. The Consortium conducts general research into the ways that undergraduate writing can lead to enhanced learning, engagement and other gains related to student success.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0134759737
• ISBN 13: 9780134759739
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 736