The best-selling Models for Writers continues to offer thought-provoking readings organized to demonstrate not only the rhetorical patterns that students will use in their own essays but also the elements and language that will make those essays effective—important coverage you won’t find in other readers. Also unique to Models is its versatility and flexibility: it works in a wide range of courses and at various levels. This edition offers a number of new classroom activities that address professional and academic writing—getting students examining and practicing with the kinds of writing they will be doing in college and beyond. The new edition also includes helpful new strategies for developing a strong thesis statement, expanded coverage of logical fallacies, entirely new coverage of APA documentation, and online multimodal readings and tutorials on critical reading and other essential topics.
This ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021). Models for Writers provides brief, compelling readings similar in length to the essays you’ll be assigned to write in college. Step-by-step advice for writing includes definition, compare and contrast, and more, with additional coverage of the elements of the essay, using sources, and research papers.
With Subject and Strategy, you get interesting readings, writing strategies that you can apply to any course, and confirmation of yourself as a writer.
An immediately and universally relevant subject, language is the ideal theme to explore in a composition course. Language Awareness collects contemporary and classic readings about language that not only make students more aware of its uses and more capable of analyzing its effects, but also help them to deploy language more effectively in their own writing.
For the first time, Models for Writers is available with Achieve, Macmillan's new online course space, which includes the complete e-book, auto-scored reading comprehension quizzes, adaptive quizzing, and fully customizable pre-built writing assignments. The short, accessible readings in Models for Writers reflect the length of essays that students write in college and the topics that matter most. This beloved reader is versatile and flexible: it works in a wide range of courses and at various levels. The text is organized to spotlight the rhetorical strategies that students will use in their own essays, as well as the elements and language that will make those essays effective. The Fourteenth Edition includes both classic and new selections on relevant themes such as language and race, smartphones and social media, automation, the rising cost of education, and pronouns and gender. This edition also features an extensively revised Chapter 2 on reading actively and critically and a new Chapter 11 on voice as the writer's personality as expressed on the page.
- A comprehensive four-chapter introduction. This extensive introduction provides detailed guidelines and instruction on reading critically, writing essays, combining rhetorical strategies, and researching and documenting sources in print and online. The new edition includes easy-to-find writing tips addressing common problems; sample annotations of a professional essay in the chapter on reading; and a sample Internet search, with screen shots, in the chapter on writing documented essays.- 73 timely and teachable readings. Sixty-one professional readings (28 new) by some of the best classic and contemporary writers and 12 student essays offer a broad spectrum of subject matter, style, and cultural points of view, and show students the versatility and strengths of the different rhetorical strategies for effective college writing. The argument chapter has been expanded in this edition to include four classic argument essays; two argument pairs on current topics; and a new five-essay case study.Visual activities now accompany 20 professional essays to show students how subjects and strategies work in visual and written formats.- Extensive rhetorical apparatus. Each rhetorical chapter provides an introduction that shows students how to use a particular strategy to make their writing more effective and how to establish purpose, context, point of view, and organizational structure. Each rhetorical chapter also includes revision checklists in each introduction, Internet assignments (including updated URLs), and writing suggestions that focus both on the dominant strategy and on combinating strategies.
Guides students in selecting, practicing, and mastering writing strategies that suit their subject and purpose. More than 90 readings usefully model how the rhetorical patterns work alone and together in successful writing.
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