Best-selling rhetorically-organized reader on the market. Separate chapters on the reading and writing process. Extensive pedagogy, including detailed introductions to each rhetorical pattern, more exercises and assignments than other readers, "before" and "after" student essays illustrating each mode. Extensive treatment on blending the rhetorical patterns. New: 1/5 of the selections; revised argumentation - persuasion chapter; more on blending patterns; more activities to help with prewriting and revising; more "paired" writing assignments, updated documentation chapter.

The Macmillan Reader

Reference

Nadell, Judith

McMeniman, Linda

Langan,John

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

PRENTICE/HALL

Successful, and widely praised for its superior instructional apparatus and thought-provoking readings, The Macmillan Reader offers fresh examples of professional essays, separate chapters on reading and writing, detailed introductions to the patterns of development, and "before" and "after" essays for each pattern. This edition now contains 58 readings, a blend of classics and fresh new selections, chosen for their engaging and inspiring qualities. Two detailed introductory chapters discuss the reading and writing processes and illustrate the integration of these processes. Annotated essays, "before and after" versions, and commentaries illustrate the writing and revising process and highlight the kind of thinking necessary for revision. Detailed introductions to the rhetorical patterns, and uniquely thorough coverage of argumentation-persuasion includes sections on logic, refutation strategies, audience analysis, Toulmin logic, Rogerian argument, detecting bias, maintaining objectivity, and establishing common ground. Also new in this edition is coverage of computers in composition, and a documentation guide for online research.

The Macmillan reader

Comodromos, Eliza A.

Words, Language & Grammar

Macmillan Publishing Co.

One of the most successful writing texts of recent years, this "all-in-one" rhetoric, reader, and handbook contains everything students need for courses in freshman composition. Created by the authors of the best-selling The Macmillan Reader, the text draws on more than 60 years of combined teaching experience to integrate the best of the "product" and "process" approaches to writing. Its particular strengths include an emphasis on the reading-writing connection, a focus on invention and revision, more attention to the fact that patterns blend in actual writing, and an abundance of class-tested activities and assignments - over 300 in all.

The MacMillan Writer: Rhetoric, Reader, Handbook

Macmillan Coll Div

Essay Writing Skills with Readings

Winstanley, Sharon

Wood, Fred

Rishor, Nancy

McGraw-Hill/Ryerson

This combined rhetoric/worktext is designed for basic skills writing courses that focus on the paragraph.  English Skills features John Langan's clear explanations and his wide range of motivating activities and assignments that reinforce the Four Bases of Effective Writing: Unity, Support, Coherence, and Sentence Skills.

English skills

Foreign Language Study & Reference

McGraw=Hill

This best-selling sentence-level worktext by John Langan continues to help students master the essential grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and usage skills needed for clear, thoughtful writing. The eighth edition of Sentence Skills, Form B features a new 4-color design that adds visual appeal and highlights key concepts to students.

Sentence Skills: A Workbook for Writers

McGraw-Hill Companies

Designed to help students to develop and apply reading and study skills, this book stresses the need to adapt reading style to purpose. It shows how to study closely, read rapidly and skim. The book includes essays on a wide range of topical issues on which techniques may be tested. An instructor's manual and software are available.

Reading and study skills

This text covers the essential reading and study skills needed for success in college courses and teaches students how to closely study, skim and read rapidly, depending on study goals and the nature of the material. Intended for use on undergraduate English courses. Sixth revised edition.

Reading and Study Skills

This is a compact,self-contained survey of basic skills that incorporates extensive activities to show readers how to transfer these skills to their own work. Covers essential basic skills (reading,writing,studying) comprehensively in self-contained chapters that allow the reader to focus on specific problem areas. Cross-references show how these skills relate to and reinforce one another.

Doing Well in College: A Concise Guide to Reading, Writing, and Study Skills

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Mcgraw-Hill College

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The Macmillan Reader

The Macmillan reader

The MacMillan Writer: Rhetoric, Reader, Handbook

Essay Writing Skills with Readings

English skills

Sentence Skills: A Workbook for Writers

Reading and study skills

Reading and Study Skills

Doing Well in College: A Concise Guide to Reading, Writing, and Study Skills

Reading and Study Skills