Readings for Writers - Softcover

Jo Ray McCuen Anthony C. Winkler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0155012673 ISBN 13: 9780155012677

Publisher: Harcourt College Publishers, 1994

Synopsis

Appropriate for freshman composition, Readings for Writers provides more reading selections than competing texts and proven writing instruction arranged by instruction type: advice, discussion or critical thinking. New coverage of the process approach covers process writing as a rhetorical mode, and expanded coverage of argumentation and persuasive writing includes new essays.

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Synopsis

Appropriate for freshman composition, Readings for Writers provides more reading selections than competing texts and proven writing instruction arranged by instruction type: advice, discussion or critical thinking. New coverage of the process approach covers process writing as a rhetorical mode, and expanded coverage of argumentation and persuasive writing includes new essays. Features: * Ten student essays offer accessible models for writing instruction. * Writing assignments in each chapter offer students both collaborative projects and writings for specific audiences. * A diversity of selections expose students to both multicultural and classic voices. * 17 selections of fiction poetry. New to this edition: * Revised Issues for Critical Thinking sections - now including ageism, immigrant vs. American culture, and AIDS - appear in each chapter with a reproduction of a painting that illustrates the issue. * Twenty-seven new selections keep coverage current and interesting for students and instructors.

* New chapter on process writing as a rhetorical mode, combined with a thematic table of contents, makes this book a helpful tool for instructiors in both process and rhetorical modes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt College Publishers
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0155012673
• ISBN 13: 9780155012677
• Binding: Paperback