Choices: A Basic Writing Guide With Readings - Softcover

Mangelsdorf, Kate; Posey, Evelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312201133 ISBN 13: 9780312201135

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1999

Synopsis

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Choices equips beginning writers with the skills and confidence to produce writing that matters. Kate Mangelsdorf and Evelyn Posey draw on over 40 years of combined classroom experience to ease students into the writing process through accessible and supportive writing instruction, encouraging students to actively participate in each step of the writing process. Along the way, students discover for themselves how to transform their brainstorming to discovery drafts and revised essays.

Incorporating suggestions from developmental writing instructors across the country, the sixth edition emphasizes the connection between reading and writing. A diverse collection of student and professional essays support the text's focus on reading well to write well while a new chapter, Reading to Improve Writing, expands the coverage on active and critical reading and offers guidance on tools and strategies for pre-reading, reading, and reflecting.

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About the Author

Kate Mangelsdorf is professor of English and director of rhetoric and developmental English at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she has also been director of composition and associate dean of University College. She was formerly coordinator of ESL writing at the University of Arizona, and she has also taught at Yavapai Community College. Mangelsdorf has published articles in the Journal of Second Language Writing, English Language Teaching Journal, and Teaching English in the Two Year College.Evelyn Posey is Professor of English and Director of the Technical and
Professional Writing Certificate Program at the University of Texas at El
Paso, where she has served as an associate vice president, associate
dean, chair, director of English education, and director of the West Texas
Writing Project. Posey has published articles in Computers and
Composition, The Journal of Developmental Education, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College.
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Edition details

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0312201133
• ISBN 13: 9780312201135
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English