This volume teaches the processes and skills common to all good academic writing by focusing on the important purposes for writing and by integrating reading, writing, revising, and editing throughout. It incorporates both professional and student models of writing as well as a multitude of exercises and activities designed to help users apply the techniques and skills introduced to their own writing, and to analyze ideas and think critically. This volume examines all aspects of the essay writing process including writing effective essays, essays in context and moving from reading to writing, with related grammar, syntax and mechanics covered in detail. For those interested in an exhaustive review of the essay writing process.

Mosaics: Focusing on Essays (2nd Edition)

Reference

Flachmann, Kim

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

PRENTICE/HALL

Part of a three-level developmental writing series that integrates critical thinking, reading, writing, revising, and editing. This volume teaches the processes and skills common to all good academic writing. It includes both professional and student models as well as a multitude of exercises and activities which help users apply the techniques and skills to their own writing. This handbook focuses on paragraphs in the context of essays, with related grammar, syntax, and mechanics covered in detail in the Revising and Editing sections. The rhetorically based instruction is repeated at more sophisticated levels in each of the three books. For individuals interested in an exhaustive review of the academic writing process.

Mosaics: Focusing on Paragraphs in Context (2nd Edition)

Words, Language & Grammar

KEY BENFIT: Part of a three-level developmental writing series that integrates critical thinking, reading, writing, revising, and editing, this book teaches the processes and skills common to all good academic writing. It includes both professional and student writings as well as a multitude of exercises and activities which help users apply the techniques and skills to their own writing. This book focuses on sentences in the context of essays, with related grammar, syntax, and mechanics covered in detail in the Revising and Editing sections. The rhetorically based instruction is repeated at more sophisticated levels in each of the three books. For those interested in a thorough examination of the academic writing.

Mosaics: Focusing on Sentences in Context (2nd Edition)

Based on the assumption that lucid thinking, reading, and writing are so closely interwoven as to be one process, this rhetorical reader helps users improve their abilities to think, read, and write on progressively more sophisticated levels by providing a collection of 60 provocative, interesting, rhetorically organized essays. The essays are accompanied by apparatus that includes clear, well-developed rhetorical introductions, sample student essays, prewriting questions, and flexible writing assignments. The essays cover a broad range of contemporary topics and portray the universality of human experience as expressed through the viewpoints of men and women, many different ethnic and racial groups, and a variety of ages and social classes. The reader explores all elements of reading, writing and thinking including description, narration, illustrating ideas, process analysis, division/classification, comparison/contrast, limiting the frame of reference, cause/effect and argument and persuasion. For individuals interested in exploring and expanding their abilities to think, read, and write.

The Prose Reader: Essays for Thinking, Reading, and Writing (6th Edition)

Prentice Hall Health

Designed for courses essay writing (college level).This text challenges students to think, read, and write on a literal, interpretive, and critical level by discussing various rhetorical strategies through the use of both student and professional essays. Each chapter discusses in detail a single rhetorical technique, and includes a selection of professional readings in order to demonstrate the use of that particular technique. The questions following each reading are designed to move students through a literal understanding of the piece, to interpretation, and finally to analysis.

Reader's Choice Fourth Canadian Edition

Flachmann, Michael

MacLennan, Alexandra

Pearson\Prentice Hall

Designed for Developmental Writing courses (Essay level). An appealing alternative to the popular Reader's Choice, now in its third Canadian edition, Reader's Choice: Essays and Stories adds fiction to provide a broader range of models of writing. The book's primary purpose continues to be helping students improve their ability to think, read, and write on progressively more sophisticated levels.

Reader's Choice: Essays and Stories, Canadian Edition

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Pearson Education Canada

This brief reader helps users improve their ability to write on progressively more sophisticated levels by integrating learning tools that develop critical thinking and reading skills into every chapter. The selections are accompanied by clear, well-developed rhetorical introductions, sample essays, prewriting questions, and flexible writing assignments. Diversity is strongly emphasized through essays covering a broad range of contemporary topics portraying the universality of human experience as expressed through the viewpoints of men and women, many different ethnic and racial groups, and a variety of ages and social classes. For writers trying to compose professional pieces that express their feelings, thoughts, observations, and opinions.

The Brief Prose Reader: Essays for Thinking, Reading, and Writing

Smith, Cheryl

Benander, Kathryn

Pearson

Mosaics- Focusing on Paragraphs in Context: Second Edition- Annotated Instructor's Edition

Mosaics, Focusing on Sentences in Context (Mosaics (Upper Saddle River, N.J.).)

This rhetorical reader is designed to help individuals improve their abilities to think, read, and write on progressively more sophisticated levels. It features a collection of 56 provocative, interesting, rhetorically organized essays accompanied by clear, well-developed rhetorical introductions, sample essays, and carefully sequenced prereading and prewriting questions, comprehension questions, and writing projects. Contains essays representing the four main purposes of writing — description, narration, exposition, persuasion. Organizes essays to reflect progressively more sophisticated levels of thinking, reading, and writing. The essays cover a broad range of contemporary topics and portray the universality of human experience as expressed through the viewpoints of men and women, many different ethnic and racial groups, and a variety of ages and social classes. Presents biographical information about the authors — explaining the real experiences from which the essay emerged poses provocative prereading questions that help readers focus on the purpose, audience, and subject of the essay. Provides complete sample essays illustrating each rhetorical pattern, accompanied by the writer's own thorough analysis of the writing experience — explaining the most enjoyable, exasperating, or noteworthy aspects of writing that particular essay. For anyone interested in refining their basic composition skills.

The Prose Reader: Essays for Thinking, Reading, and Writing

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