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This book provides students with the kind of extra help they will need to meet the demands of their first-year writing course as well as their other courses. Through its highly visual, student-centered approach, the book teaches basic skills and engages students immediately in the thinking-writing process, guiding them through the writing strategies and activities that form the core of composition instruction. It is divided into six parts: Academic Quick Start; Strategies for Writing Essays; Patterns of Development; Reading and Writing Arguments; Academic Applications; and Handbook: Writing Problems and How To Correct Them. Chapters in the book are: (1) Starting with an Advantage; (2) Working with Text: Active Reading Strategies; (3) Writing about Readings; (4) Prewriting: How To Find and Focus Ideas; (5) Developing and Supporting a Thesis; (6) Drafting an Essay; (7) Revising Content and Organization; (8) Editing Sentences and Words; (9) Narration: Recounting Events; (10) Description: Portraying People, Places, and Things; (11) Illustration: Explaining with Examples; (12) Process Analysis: Explaining How Something Works or Is Done; (13) Comparison and Contrast: Showing Similaritie

Author

McWhorter, Kathleen T.

Publisher

Bedford/St. Martin's, 75 Arlington St., Boston, MA 02116 ($47.60). Tel: 617-426-7440; Web site: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312243678

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities