The Composition of Everyday Life, Concise, 2016 MLA Update (The Composition of Everyday Life Series) - Softcover

Metz, John; Mauk, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1337280798 ISBN 13: 9781337280792

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Encouraging you to be an inventive thinker and writer, THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, CONCISE, illustrates how the act of writing is connected to your daily life as it helps you rediscover concepts, uncover meaning, and rethink the world around you. The fifth edition offers 13 chapters to help you invent ideas, more than any other text on the market. With more than 35 reading selections by both professional and student writers-many responding to the chapter prompts-this book fully engages you in writing academic essays. This text delivers pedagogy for making meaning and generating writing at the intersection of academic and nonacademic life. It is an excellent preparation for the academic reading and writing activities you will encounter throughout your college experience and well beyond. This edition has been updated to reflect guidelines from the 2016 MLA HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition.

About this title

About the Authors

John Metz has a B.A. in English from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (1983) and an M.A. in English from the University of Toledo (1985). He has taught first-year writing for over 20 years and currently teaches at Kent State University at Geauga in Twinsburg, Ohio.

John Mauk has a Ph.D. in rhetoric and writing from Bowling Green State University and a Masters in language and literature from the University of Toledo. Scholarship includes an article on critical geography and composition (COLLEGE ENGLISH, March 2003). Mauk now teaches composition and rhetoric courses at Northwestern Michigan College. In 2007, he served on the NCTE Nominating Committee.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1337280798
• ISBN 13: 9781337280792
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 640