Writing Matters: Second Edition

Beidler, Peter G.

ISBN 10: 1603811745 / ISBN 13: 9781603811743

Published by Coffeetown Press, 2013

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Kenmore. 2013. June 2013. Coffeetown Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781603811743. 6 x 9. 230 pages. paperback. keywords: Reference Writing. DESCRIPTION - Many students dread writing essays because no one has bothered to break down the process in a clear, down-to-earth fashion. Writing Matters is the remedy. This revised second edition improves on the first by presenting actual student essays for classroom discussion and by expanding the section on editing. Award-winning English Professor Peter G. Beidler offers solid advice that includes, in part: how to find a topic, what constitutes a bold thesis, how to select and organize evidence, what to include in an introduction, how to develop a voice, and how to doctor a sickly paragraph. Although originally written for first-year university students learning composition, Writing Matters has also been invaluable to ESL students and those in high school preparing for the SATs. What I like most about Writing Matters is that it really speaks to my students. Beidler's refreshing strategy of giving the rudiments of essay writing in twenty-six mini-essays which exemplify the very precepts he is advancing is particularly helpful. After all, some students learn better by precept, other by example. … I have recommended Writing Matters to various colleagues and have yet to hear a negative word. --Professor John de Oliveira e Silva, CUNY: LaGuardia Community College, New York City, NY. I have been using Peter G. Beidler's Writing Matters for fifteen years because I prefer it to all other how-to writing textbooks that cross my desk. Writing Matters is far more accessible to students than the typical composition text…. Although Beidler's book is simple, direct, and sometimes humorous, it does not condescend. --Professor Kathleen Mayberry, Lehigh Carbon Community College, Schnecksville, PA. Although he wrote this book for college writing classes, the simple, direct advice it contains would help anyone in the business world. Writing Matters should be in the desk drawer of every manager and executive. --Charlie Liekweg, recently retired President & CEO of AAA Washington and former Vice President, Operations, GTE Corporation. inventory #46798. Seller Inventory # z46798

Bibliographic Details

Title: Writing Matters: Second Edition

Publisher: Coffeetown Press

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: paperback

Condition: Very Good in Wrappers

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

Many students dread writing essays because no one has bothered to break down the process in a clear, down-to-earth fashion. Writing Matters is the remedy. This revised second edition improves on the first by presenting actual student essays for classroom discussion and by expanding the section on editing. Award-winning English Professor Peter G. Beidler offers solid advice that includes, in part: how to find a topic, what constitutes a bold thesis, how to select and organize evidence, what to include in an introduction, how to develop a voice, and how to doctor a sickly paragraph. Although originally written for first-year university students learning composition, Writing Matters has also been invaluable to ESL students and those in high school preparing for the SATs.

About the Author:

PETER G. BEIDLER is the Lucy G. Moses Distinguished Professor of English, emeritus, at Lehigh University. In a his long career, he has published more often in the Chaucer Review than any other scholar. He is the author of The Wife of Bath in the Bedford Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series, Masculinities in Chaucer, and some twenty other books on various literary and pedagogical subjects. He was a Fulbright professor at Sichuan University in mainland China and as the Robert Foster Cherry Professor at Baylor University in Texas. The winner of several teaching awards, he was named national Professor of the Year in 1983 by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation. He now lives in Seattle, Washington.