Using visual resources like graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and annotated readings, Successful College Writing shows you clearly how writing works. Hands-on writing activities and step-by-step drafting and revising guidance combine to help you succeed at the college level.
Because so many first-year writing students lack the basic skills the course demands, reading specialist McWhorter gives them steady guidance through the challenges they face in academic work. Successful College Writing offers extensive instruction in active and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 61 readings that provide strong rhetorical models, as well as an easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition. McWhorter’s unique visual approach to learning uses graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and other visual tools to help students analyze texts and write their own essays. Her unique attention to varieties of learning styles also helps empower students, allowing them to identify their strengths and learning preferences. Read the preface.
All the help students need to succeed Because so many first-year writing students lack the basic skills the course demands, reading specialist McWhorter gives them steady guidance through the challenges they face in academic work. Successful College Writing offers extensive instruction in active and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 61 readings that provide strong rhetorical models, as well as an easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition. McWhorter’s unique visual approach to learning uses graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and other visual tools to help students analyze texts and write their own essays. Her unique attention to varieties of learning styles also helps empower students, allowing them to identify their strengths and learning preferences. "Successful College Writing is not just about the mastery of academic discourse. It’s a leader in its genre because it helps students acquire valuable strategies for creating effective texts that are associated with expert professional communication in general." — Lilia Savova, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Because so many first-year writing students lack the basic skills the course demands, reading specialist McWhorter gives them steady guidance through the challenges they face in academic work. Successful College Writing offers extensive instruction in active and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 61 readings that provide strong rhetorical models, as well as an easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition. McWhorter’s unique visual approach to learning uses graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and other visual tools to help students analyze texts and write their own essays. Her unique attention to varieties of learning styles also helps empower students, allowing them to identify their strengths and learning preferences. Read the preface.
Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Reading specialist Kathleen McWhorter understands that students are often lacking in the skills they need to succeed in the first-year writing course and need a text that doesn’t assume they have mastered all the basics. Successful College Writing meets students where they are, offering extensive instruction in careful and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 64 professional and student readings that provide strong rhetorical models, as well as an easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition. McWhorter’s unique visual approach to learning uses graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and other visual tools to help students analyze texts and write their own essays. Her unique attention to varieties of learning styles also helps empower students, allowing them to identify their strengths and learning preferences.
This innovative modes-based reader by reading expert Kathleen McWhorter supports an integrated approach to reading and writing with unique scaffolded instruction that guides students through comprehension, analysis, evaluation, and written response — skills students will need to be successful in college. Compelling reading selections drawn from widely taught academic disciplines let students practice the work they’re expected to do in other college courses.
Emphasizing critical thinking, College Reading and Study Skills approaches reading and study skills as active learning processes. Students analyze their learning style and then apply what they have learned with new "Learning Experiments" and "Learning Principles" exercises. A new section of thematically organized readings in Part 7 offers practice with both textbook and non-textbook excerpts as well as web reading. A new Chapter 9, "Reading Electronic Sources," presents strategies for reading and evaluating electronic sources. New "SuccessWorkshops" offer practical tips on how to succeed in college.
A learning and reading specialist with over 30 years of experience, Kathleen T. McWhorter applies her knowledge of how students read and understand texts to Seeing the Pattern, a unique new rhetorically arranged reader that offers more help for students than any other reader. Building on proven features from her widely adopted composition text Successful College Writing, McWhorter has developed innovative techniques to strengthen students' reading and writing skills and help them see the rhetorical patterns and then use them in their own writing. The result is a visually oriented rhetorical reader that improves upon the genre by offering underprepared students the extra help they need to achieve success in their college-level writing.
This book presents techniques and guided practice at will enable readers to accomplish reading tasks within an efficient and realistic framework. New chapters on visuals teach students how to read and interpret visuals and graphics (maps, tables, pie charts, diagrams, etc.) and how to use Internet/electronic resources and multimedia study aids. More than 75 new exercises are included.
THIS TITLE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATES! Our editorial team has updated this text based on content from The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN. Kathleen T. McWhorter’s unique visual approach, with support for both reading and writing, helps students at any level of preparedness become successful college writers. The sixth edition of Successful College Writing builds on its beloved, proven visual tools, such as graphic organizers, flowcharts, and new graphic Guided Writing Assignments, with engaging professional, multimedia, and student readings in the most commonly assigned rhetorical modes. In response to instructor and student feedback, the new edition has been thoughtfully streamlined and redesigned.
by Kathleen McWhorter. The first journal for readers, The Longman Reader's Journal offers a place for students to record their reactions to and questions about any reading. Available FREE valuepacked with any Longman Reading text.
Because so many first-year writing students lack the basic skills the course demands, reading specialist McWhorter gives them steady guidance through the challenges they face in academic work. Successful College Writing offers extensive instruction in active and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 61 readings that provide strong rhetorical models, as well as an easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition. McWhorter’s unique visual approach to learning uses graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and other visual tools to help students analyze texts and write their own essays. Her unique attention to varieties of learning styles also helps empower students, allowing them to identify their strengths and learning preferences. Read the preface.
Because so many first-year writing students lack the basic skills the course demands, reading specialist Kathleen T. McWhorter gives them steady guidance through the challenges they face in academic work. McWhorter’s unique visual approach to learning uses graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and other visual tools to help students analyze texts and write their own essays. Successful College Writing offers extensive instruction in active and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 65 readings that provide strong rhetorical models. McWhorter’s unique attention to varieties of learning styles also helps empower students, allowing them to identify their strengths and learning preferences.
Kathleen T. McWhorters unique visual approach, with support for both reading and writing, helps students at any level of preparedness become successful college writers. The sixth edition of Successful College Writing builds on its beloved, proven visual tools, such as graphic organizers, flowcharts, and new graphic Guided Writing Assignments, with engaging professional, multimedia, and student readings in the most commonly assigned rhetorical modes. In response to instructor and student feedback, the new edition has been thoughtfully streamlined and redesigned.
Kathleen T. McWhorter’s unique visual approach, with support for both reading and writing, helps students at any level of preparedness become successful college writers. The sixth edition of Successful College Writing builds on its beloved, proven visual tools, such as graphic organizers, flowcharts, and new graphic Guided Writing Assignments, with engaging professional, multimedia, and student readings in the most commonly assigned rhetorical modes. In response to instructor and student feedback, the new edition has been thoughtfully streamlined and redesigned.
This best-selling paragraph-to-essay text is known for its fully integrated reading-writing approach, supportive tone, and step-by-step instruction. The Writer' s Express enables instructors to move from paragraph to essay writing with great flexibility. A section of 12 brief, high-interest readings prompts critical thinking and motivates student writing.
Designed to support students who are learning to navigate college and first-year composition at the same time, A Student’s Companion for Successful College Writing includes: College success materials that help students build confidence, manage time effectively, and write ethically and responsibly Additional activities designed to help students develop, draft, and revise writing projects for each chapter in Parts 3 and 4 of Successful College Writing Sentence guides for academic writing that give students a jumping-off point as they learn to present and respond to the ideas of others Editing activities for students who need extra practice in correcting common writing problems, such as comma splices and fragments A Student’s Companion is the perfect text for students taking a co-requisite (or ALP) writing course.
NOTE: This “Books a la Carte” 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. Several versions of the MyLab™ platform exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a Course ID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use MyLab. For anyone interested in improving his/her reading and thinking skills. Improve reading and thinking abilities through targeted skill instruction and extensive guided practice across many academic disciplines. Reading Across the Disciplines teaches essential college reading skills and guides their application in each of 10 academic disciplines and career fields. Kathleen McWhorter helps readers expand their vocabulary and comprehension, practice methods for reading and thinking critically, and enhance their ability to make inferences. The 7th Edition also introduces discipline-specific reading strategies and features more than 20 new readings — selected from college textbooks as well as from books, periodicals, popular magazines, newspapers, and Internet sources — to motivate readers and demonstrate the relevance to their daily lives. Available to package with Reading Across the Disciplines, 7th Edition (Books a la Carte loose-leaf edition), MyLab™ Reading is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work in tandem with the text to engage students and improve results. MyLab Reading is ideal for courses requiring additional reading skills practice and assessment. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing both the Books a la Carte loose-leaf edition of the text and MyLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the Books a la Carte loose-leaf edition and MyLab, search for: 0134768280 / 9780134768281 Reading Across the Disciplines plus MyLab Reading with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package, 7/e Package consists of: 0134397290 / 9780134397290 Reading Across the Disciplines, Books a la Carte Edition 0134766342 / 9780134766348 NEW MyLab Reading with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Reading Across the Disciplines College Reading and Beyond Reading Across the Disciplines, 7th Edition is also available via Revel™ , an interactive digital learning environment that replaces the print textbook, enabling students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience. Revel is ideal for courses where student engagement and mobile access are important. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; this is not the Revel version. Students, if interested in purchasing the Revel version, ask your instructor for the correct ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase the Revel version, search for: 0134424441 / 9780134424446 Revel Reading Across the Disciplines -- Access Card, 7/e You can also purchase a loose-leaf print reference to complement Revel Reading Across the Disciplines . This is optional.
The Writer's Selections: Shaping Our Lives can be used for low-level developmental course or a low-level bridge course. The text is thematically organised focusing on the influences and decisions that shape our lives including events, work, culture, media, and technology. All of the readings are characterised by being short, readable, engaging, and representative of a wide range of sources. Each reading is accompanied by strong pedagogy including pre-reading activities, post-reading activities, and paragraph and essay writing assignments. Highlights of the new third edition include: - Completely restructured and expanded opening chapter of instruction (additional information on prewriting, developing a thesis, developing paragraphs, and writing introductions and conclusions) - Contains over a third brand new reading material
Seeing the Pattern doesn’t just tell students about writing, it uniquely shows them the connection between critical reading and writing using the classic rhetorical patterns. McWhorter, a learning and reading specialist with over 30 years of experience, has developed a visually oriented text that offers students the extra help they need to achieve success in the formal academic writing that they are expected to use for the SAT, on college applications, and in the classroom.
The third edition of Reading and Writing About Contemporary Issues offers an integrated approach to reading and writing, using a handbook for reference and instruction followed by readings for analysis and writing. The nonfiction readings are organized into units that focus on contemporary issues. Chosen to interest and motivate students, they are drawn from books, textbooks, periodicals, popular magazines, newspapers, Web sites, and Internet sources with the objective of providing stimulating and challenging readings that enable students to apply reading and critical-thinking skills and respond to text through writing. The book also offers a casebook of readings on the topic of artificial intelligence and a brief skill refresher review of grammar and correctness"--
Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Reading specialist Kathleen McWhorter understands that students are often lacking in the skills they need to succeed in the first-year writing course and need a text that doesn’t assume they have mastered all the basics. Successful College Writing meets students where they are, offering extensive instruction in careful and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 64 professional and student readings that provide strong rhetorical models, as well as an easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition. McWhorter’s unique visual approach to learning uses graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and other visual tools to help students analyze texts and write their own essays. Her unique attention to varieties of learning styles also helps empower students, allowing them to identify their strengths and learning preferences.
Because so many first-year writing students lack the basic skills the course demands, reading specialist McWhorter gives them steady guidance through the challenges they face in academic work. Successful College Writing offers extensive instruction in active and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 61 readings that provide strong rhetorical models, as well as an easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition. McWhorter’s unique visual approach to learning uses graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and other visual tools to help students analyze texts and write their own essays. Her unique attention to varieties of learning styles also helps empower students, allowing them to identify their strengths and learning preferences. Read the preface.
Additional Exercises for Successful College Writing, Fifth Edition These additional exercises are designed to give you extra practice with the writing skills covered in Successful College Writing by Kathleen T. McWhorter. Check your responses against the answers provided at the end of the book. More help 24/7: bedfordstmartins.com/successfulcollege If you want more help with improving your writing, visit the companion site for Successful College Writing, which offers lots of free and open resources that you can use anywhere, anytime. Complete the online learning styles inventory to find your learning style. Outline your essay's main points using online graphic organizers. Take quizzes on the readings. Find checklists for better writing. Try exercises and create a study plan for grammar and writing. Book jacket.
For courses in Integrated Reading and Writing at the paragraph/essay level. Integrated thematic instruction at the paragraph and essay level In Concert: An Integrated Approach to Reading and Writing engages readers by presenting each chapter in the context of a resonant theme, such as overcoming adversity, Internet dating, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Student and professional essays start each chapter and serve as the basis for instruction, illustration, and practice. Author Kathleen McWhorter emphasizes critical thinking throughout, which helps to prepare learners for their future courses or careers. In Concert, Third Edition, is the second book in a two�-part series that shows reading and writing as a single process of understanding and expressing ideas - and how they really do work together in concert. This volume explores paragraphs and essays; In Harmony concentrates on sentences and paragraphs. The loose-leaf version of this text is also available with MyLab Reading & Writing Skills MyLab(tm) is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. When students enter your course with varying skill levels, MyLab can help you identify which students need extra support and provide them targeted practice and instruction outside of class. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab Reading & Writing Skills does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab Reading & Writing Skills, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text (loose-leaf version) and MyLab Reading & Writing Skills, search for: 0134995945 / 9780134995946 MyLab Reading & Writing Skills for In Concert: An Integrated Approach to Reading and Writing, Books a la Carte Edition Plus - Access Card Package Package consists of: 0134746546 / 9780134746548 In Concert: An Integrated Approach to Reading and Writing, 3rd Edition, Books a la Carte Edition 0134985141 / 9780134985145 MyLab Reading & Writing Skills with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for In Concert: An Integrated Approach to Reading and Writing
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