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Strategies for successful writing : a rhetoric, research guide, and reader

For Freshman Composition courses. This best-selling text combines three books–a rhetoric, a research guide, and reader–into one convenient and flexible teaching tool while offering students an exceptional value. Also available in an alternate versionwith a Handbook section.
Print Book, English, ©2005
Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., ©2005
handbooks
xx, 618 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
9780131787841, 0131787845
58532489
Writing: a first look
Strategies for successful reading
Planning and drafting your paper
Revising and editing your paper
Narration: relating events
Description: presenting impressions
Process analysis: Explaining how
Illustration: making yourself clear
Classification: grouping into categories
Comparison: showing relationships
Cause and effect: explaining why
Definition: establishing boundaries
Argument: convincing others
Mixing the writing strategies
Paragraphs
Effective sentences
Diction, tone, style
The essay examination
Writing about literature
Business letters and résumés
The research paper
Documenting sources
Additional research strategies: interviews, questionnaires, direct observations