Synopsis
BLUEPRINTS FOR WRITING: BUILDING ESSAYS demystifies the writing process by guiding you through each step of the essay plan, or blueprint. This text empowers you to write essays from the start, providing numerous practice exercises, activities, and prompts to help you along the way. BLUEPRINTS FOR WRITING focuses on the writing process in various modes of development, offering abundant student writing samples throughout, including more than thirty student essays. Part III includes four chapters on critical reading, providing close reading strategies and six professional readings, which are supplemented by more than twenty additional readings in an appendix. The text also includes comprehensive coverage of the most common grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and style issues that you will encounter. Coverage of incorporating research and practical writing are also included, complete with student samples that illustrate how writing is relevant to your academic, personal, and professional life.
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Pam Mathis holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English from the University of Arkansas. She teaches at North Arkansas College in the heart of the Ozark Mountains, where she is the Director of College Preparatory and an English instructor. Her teaching experience involves college success skills, integrated reading and writing, all levels of composition, and American literature. Like all English teachers, she loves to read and always has "a couple of books going" no matter how busy she is. She lives in Harrison, Arkansas, with her husband and a menagerie of various animals. They enjoy two sons and two grandsons.
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