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This essential writing tool demonstrates how "elements of style" function in the composition and editing process of writing. It's useful for any student from middle school through college as a quick-reference writing tool. This guide includes: word choice & diction, exactness & conciseness, audience,...

A student’s avatar navigates a virtual world and communicates the desires, emotions, and fears of its creator. Yet, how can her writing instructor interpret this form of meaningmaking? Today, multiple modes of communication and information technology are challenging pedagogies in composition...

The global environment demands English writing skill. QEC (Quick English Compositions) helps learners understand and practice English composition skills. Focusing on one essay type at a time, QEC can help you write better quickly, with many example patterns, focusing on the sentence level. QEC includes...

In English composition, a writer should make a careful selection of words and style to use to convey his message more effectively.  Although the same message can be said in different ways, what is consistent is the need to convey the messages in a manner that is clear. Grab The Easy Study Guide now!

There are so many rules of grammar that to keep track of all can be very challenging for students. This guide breaks down sentences into corresponding grammar rules, meaning and examples in an effort to give you practical lessons in English. By the time you finish this guide, you should have a better understanding of English composition and style. Grab a copy today.

What current theoretical frameworks inform academic and professional writing? What does research tell us about the effectiveness of academic and professional writing programs? What do we know about existing best practices? What are the current guidelines and procedures in evaluating a program’s...

Traditional principles. Contemporary methods. Unparalleled results. This groundbreaking new writing series combines time-tested classical techniques—the imitation and analysis of great writers—with original composition exercises in history, science, biography, and literature. Skills...

Traditional principles. Contemporary methods. Unparalleled results. This groundbreaking new writing series combines time-tested classical techniques—the imitation and analysis of great writers—with original composition exercises in history, science, biography, and literature. Skills...

Time-tested classical techniques--the imitation and analysis of great writers--combined with original composition exercises in history, science, biography, and literature. The Student Workbook encourages independent composition, while the Instructor Text contains easy-to-use supporting information...

The third volume of the groundbreaking writing series that prepares students for high-level work in rhetoric and composition. Full support for parents and teachers, including rubrics, model compositions, teaching tips, and suggested dialogue. Building on the first two levels of Writing With...

Writing against the Curriculum responds to the growing popularity of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) programs in universities and colleges across the United States. Many of these schools employ both an "Introduction to Writing" course and a subsequent...

Community Writing: Researching Social Issues Through Composition employs a series of assignments that guide students to research and write about issues confronting their individual communities. Students start by identifying a community to which they belong and focusing on problems in it, and then...

In Dialectical Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey argues that the historical conflict between rhetoric and dialectic can be overcome in ways useful to both composition theory and the composition classroom. Historically, dialectic has taken two forms in relation to rhetoric. First, it has been the logical...

As the title suggests, this sixchapter book responds to a question which, in Western culture, goes back to Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian, namely, What should rhetoric teachers ask their students to read? Primarily historical, the first two chapters trace conflicting answers to the question...