These resources for teaching NextText provide a variety of background materials on rhetorical situations, stylistic choices, and related genre conventions to help you and your students negotiate the texts they will find in the book. Along with numerous teaching tips, the manual provides: an overview of each reading, its genre, and its rhetoric and style; ideas on how to use the reading questions and writing suggestions; and advice on working with the unique end-of-chapter sections.
With more than 130 readings and 24 pages of visual arguments, Conversations offers an extraordinary variety of authors, genres, voices, and viewpoints on important contemporary civic issues. Touching on issues that affect students both as individuals and as citizens, the readings and visuals invite students to join important civic conversations through their own writing. For each issue addressed, Conversations offers not just one or two selections, but several--reminding students that no issue has just one or two sides, but usually involves a wide range of voices. Frequently, selections comment on and argue with other selections, demonstrating that writing is a social exchange, and that much writing is a response to what we read. The images included in this new edition also remind students that we regularly read--interpret and respond to--not only words, but visual arguments found in photographs, artworks, cartoons, advertisements, and websites.
For courses in first-year Composition and R hetoric. This version of The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers has been updated to reflect the 8th Edition of the MLA Handbook (April 2016)* A scaffolded writing guide with writer's purpose at the core With new forms of delivery and expression changing the expectations of writers and audiences, our expectations of writing continue to evolve -- and so must today's writers. The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Eleventh Edition helps students navigate this territory by fostering rhetorical awareness and asking them to consider purpose, audience, and genre every time they write. Each project chapter guides students with a series of scaffolded assignments, aligned with the WPA Recommended Outcomes for First-year Writing. The rhetorical emphasis, practical step-by-step approach, and predictable structure have made this guide a highly teachable favorite. * The 8th Edition introduces sweeping changes to the philosophy and details of MLA works cited entries. Responding to the "increasing mobility of texts," MLA now encourages writers to focus on the process of crafting the citation, beginning with the same questions for any source. These changes, then, align with current best practices in the teaching of writing which privilege inquiry and critical thinking over rote recall and rule-following.
NOTE: This edition features the same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf version. Books a la Carte also offer a great value; this format costs significantly less than a new textbook. Before purchasing, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. In addition, you may need a Course ID, provided by your instructor. This package for The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Books a la Carte Edition also includes REVEL(tm), an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience. Used books, rentals, and purchases made outside of Pearson If purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson, the access codes for Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products may not be included, may be incorrect, or may be previously redeemed. Check with the seller before completing your purchase. For courses in first-year Composition and Rhetoric. A practical, step-by-step approach with writer's purpose at the core With new forms of delivery and expression changing the expectations of writers and audiences, the definition of "writing" continues to evolve -- and so must today's writers. The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Eleventh Edition helps students navigate this territory by asking them to consider purpose, audience, and genre every time they write. Each project chapter guides students with a series of assignments, aligned with WPA Recommended Outcomes for First-year Writing. 013449508X / 9780134495088 The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Books a la Carte Plus REVEL - Access Card Package Package consists of: 0134122046 / 9780134122045 The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Books a la Carte Edition 0134309456 / 9780134309453 REVEL for The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers - Access Card
Conversations: Readings for Writing provides students an entry point to an extraordinary variety of authors, genres, voices, and viewpoints on important contemporary civic issues. Touching on issues that affect students both as individuals and as citizens, the readings and visuals invite students to join important civic "conversations" through their own writing. For each issue addressed, Conversations offers not just one or two selections, but several--reminding students that no issue has just one or two sides, but usually involves a wide range of voices. Frequently, selections comment on and argue with other selections, demonstrating that writing is a social exchange, and that writing is often prompted as a response to that which we read. The images included also remind students that we regularly "read"--that is interpret and respond to--not only words, but visual arguments found in photographs, artworks, cartoons, and advertisements.
With more than 130 readings and 24 pages of visual arguments, Conversations offers an extraordinary variety of authors, genres, voices, and viewpoints on important contemporary civic issues. Touching on issues that affect students both as individuals and as citizens, the readings and visuals invite students to join important civic conversations through their own writing. For each issue addressed, Conversations offers not just one or two selections, but several--reminding students that no issue has just one or two sides, but usually involves a wide range of voices. Frequently, selections comment on and argue with other selections, demonstrating that writing is a social exchange, and that much writing is a response to what we read. The images included in this new edition also remind students that we regularly read--interpret and respond to--not only words, but visual arguments found in photographs, artworks, cartoons, advertisements, and websites.
Issues in the Disciplines is a thematically organized, cross-disciplinary reader. Multiple perspectives from the natural and social sciences and the humanities are presented on topics like war, politics and citizenship, and literacy both to engage readers with academic texts and to the range of disciplinary approaches.
Composing a Life¿s Work will motivate readers to use reading and writing to look at their strengths and interests and ultimately to choose a career. The book uses the concept of Occupational Inquiry help readers produce richer, more informed writing.
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