The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers - Couverture rigide

Reid, Stephen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0137219865 ISBN 13 : 9780137219865

Editeur : Pearson, 1992

Synopsis

The chapters in this comprehensive work are organized around a framework of writing purposes, including research and writing about literature. The author offers the reader advice on choosing a subject, collecting data, drafting and rewriting essays. The publication includes a reference handbook.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

This best-selling writing guide—used at hundreds of colleges and universities—offers the clearest explanation of college writing. Every chapter contains advice on choosing a subject, collecting data, drafting, and revising for a specific purpose, while also integrating the appropriate rhetorical strategies. Effective student examples, professional essays, and journal exercises further illustrate how the writing process changes with each different purpose.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

For one/two-semester Freshman Composition courses.

This best-selling writing guide integrates purpose, process, and rhetorical strategies into every chapter, offering students—as well as new instructors—the clearest explanation of writing. In addition to emphasizing critical reading, every major chapter contains professional and student samples, rhetorical techniques, journal exercises, reading and writing activities, collaborative activities, peer-response guidelines, revision suggestions, and a student essay in each chapter contains writing process materials (outlines, audience analysis, interview notes, drafts, revision plans, etc.).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0137219865
• ISBN 13: 9780137219865
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 1025
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie