This text addresses the needs of readers to see themselves and their future in a more meaningful way while reinforcing the most basic learning skills necessary for college and career success. The insights of the authors will help readers better understand themselves, the demands of college, and the challenges and opportunities that await them in the real world. Conceptual thinking. Chapter-ending essays and readings. Reading and writing connections. Emphasis on skills needed for the 21st century. Viewpoints. Profiles. For anyone with an interest in student orientation and career opportunity.

Majoring in the Rest of Your Life: College and Career Secrets for Students

Business & Money

TROYKA, Lynn Quitman

Carter, Carol

Job Hunting & Careers

Pearson College Div

This brief spiral-bound reference handbook takes a user-friendly, reader-oriented approach—with additional features that give readersaccess to information quickly. The author covers grammar, punctuation, thinking and reading critically, writing argument essays, writing research papers and documenting them, writing for the Web, designing documents, writing about literature, writing for business, and creating oral presentations.  Offers a Premium Companion Website at www.prenhall.com/troyka that facilitates the research process and offers three exclusive databases full of relevant and reliable source material. Expands discussion of the research process from five to seven chapters. Offers a new chapter on writing arguments. Features a new chapter on Oral Presentation that explains how to plan, create, and present. Features a striking new four color design that highlights each key concept. Provides URL addresses throughout that helps readers access useful websites.  The ideal reference for professionals of all kinds who want to improve their writing in both business and personal contexts.

Simon and Schuster Quick Access Reference for Writers

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Explains the purposes of writing, aids in the understanding of grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, gives the processes of research writing, and provides a section for ESL students.

Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers, 5th Edition

Best selling hardback reference handbook. Revision highlights Lynn Troyka's accessible style and clear explanations. Complete on-line coverage included. New design is color coded with an open layout for quicker, easier access to information. Comes with a dual-platform CD-ROM that includes Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus. _

Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers: Interactive Edition

For courses in Fundamentals of Reading and College Reading. The highly regarded, exceptionally effective approach of Structured Reading is grounded in psycholinguistic theory and based on the principle that readers improve their skills not by reading about reading, but rather by guided, hands-on experience with reading. Throughout the text readers encounter essays from books, magazines, and texts. They use this material to develop their critical thinking, reading, and vocabulary skills.

Structured Reading

Prentice Hall College Div.

Prentice Hall's exclusive Companion Website offers unique tools and support for every concept in the Quick Access text. Every part of the book references additional online information, including: thousands of self-graded questions for every key concept; pre-and post-tests to gauge comprehension on all grammar/punctuation topics; a complete online text reference keyed to every exercise; tips and exercises for various stages of the writing process; and writing help for different audiences and different academic/professional papers.

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The Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers

Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers

PRENTICE/HALL

This time-honored, comprehensive program for basic writers features a unique instructional format that combines the fundamentals of grammar, mechanics, rhetoric, vocabulary, and spelling, with contemporary topics of interest and participatory exercises that require readers to get fully involved by creating, changing, rewriting, or correcting. Using an integrated âwhole languageâ approach and continual reinforcement of skills, this book caters to usersÂ¿ intelligence and interests. KEY TOPICS It features instructional material on all nine modes of discourseâdescription, narration, exemplification, process, comparison and contrast, definition, cause and effect, classification, and argumentation. For the development of writing skills and the creation of effective writing.

Steps in Composition (6th)

Allyn&Bacon

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Majoring in the Rest of Your Life: College and Career Secrets for Students

Simon and Schuster Quick Access Reference for Writers

Simon and Schuster Quick Access Reference for Writers

Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers, 5th Edition

Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers: Interactive Edition

Structured Reading

Simon & Schuster Quick Access with E-book Access Package

The Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers

Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers

Steps in Composition (6th)