Psychology is listed as one of the top five most popular majors at universities across the United States. Business is one of the other top five popular majors in colleges and universities. Combining both areas into one succinct, easy to read book gives a vast majority of college students an upper leg at improving their writing….
Basic Academic and Professional Writing with APA Format combines psychology and business and introduces today’s time-starved college students to the world of writing more intelligently and…
First Things First: Foundational Tools for Collegiate Writing teaches students how to write academically. This workbook contains 10 lessons with several exercises and practice tools for students enrolled in a college writing course.
Business and Technical Writing takes a rhetorical approach that emphasizes writing in context and aims to move students through a continuum of writing experiences ranging from less contextualized workplace simulations to more situated, more authentic, client-based projects.
Business and Technical Writing develops multiple literacies, including rhetorical literacy, visual literacy, information literacy, computer literacy, and ethical literacy.
Business and Technical Writing by Jeffrey…
There are so many rules to learn and remember when writing informational essays and term papers in high school and college. Since writing takes practice, here is a manual that can help. Students need to convey their information in a concise, understandable manner. This manual can make that task easier for all students--especially high school seniors and college freshmen. This book provides an easy-to-understand set of guidelines for correct sentence structure and punctuation with basic rules and exercises that will enhance students' informational writing skills.
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Where We Live and Work is a writing book for those with only a basic knowledge of how English works. It is organized by rhetorical mode and covers six: definition and classification, description, comparison and contrast, narration, process analysis, and opinion. Each chapter begins with a Discussion and Activity section followed by a definition and description of the kind of writing done in the targeted rhetorical mode. The next section consists of model paragraphs in that mode. Each model paragraph is followed by in-class discussion questions. Any specific…
The workbook, Art for the Elementary Educator, is an excellent resource for education and art majors at the college level, current art and classroom teachers, and home-schooled students. It encompasses art education concepts and ideas with strategies for writing integrated lessons for grades kindergarten through fifth grade.
This workbook is not the ‘traditional’ academic textbook. It is written as an engaging narrative with a fictitious principal, art teacher and classroom teachers. It chronicles twenty school days with examples of integrated lessons,…
“What I assume, you too shall assume,” Walt Whitman writes in his famous “Song of Myself,” declaring fully what the art of poetry is all about. The writer of poetry invites the reader to join in the process of the poem, invites the reader into the musings of the poet. Poetry, then, is more than just entertainment, but rather a way for the reader to see through someone else’s eyes, to hear with someone else’s ears. It is an experience.
Composing Poetry: A Guide to Writing Poems and Thinking Lyrically is a handbook for novice writers as they learn to…
Learning to write at the college level is a definite need for students in all disciplines. Whether you are a nursing, sociology, mathematics, or history major, at some point in your college career you will have to learn to write and to do so properly.
Drafting: A Guide to Freshman Writing is a comprehensive text which provides students of Freshman Composition I and II explicit directions with examples to develop their first year writing skills. Ms. Geesling and Ms. Rosenquist have a combined 14 years of teaching experience in writing practices for freshman…
Whether you teach a traditional or accelerated developmental writing course Sparks: A Reader to Energize Writing offers a blend of reading strategies, essays, punctuation exercises, basic research documentation, and rhetorical modes—all in one text and written in a tone that speaks directly to students. Each essay is accompanied by cultural and historical references as part of the pre-reading strategy, vocabulary and usage, discussion questions for critical thinking and discussion, style analysis and practice, group activities designed to complement writing assignments…
Speech Writing and Delivery for Public Relations was written to fill a void in advanced public relations public speaking training and experience. It is for the reader who wants to know more about public speaking in a public relations context. What distinguishes this book from traditional college public speaking textbooks is the emphasis on specific public relations examples and exercises designed to give the reader practical knowledge and experience.
Speech Writing and Delivery for Public Relations:
- gives the reader…
Read Write!: An Introduction to Integrated Reading and Writing is designed as workbook; making it easy for students to annotate and highlight, take notes, and complete assignments directly on the pages.
Read Write!: An Introduction to Integrated Reading and Writing features:
- Read Write! Tips throughout. These help students better grasp a concept while also improving your study skills.
- Several short stories, novels, essays and newspaper articles.
- 26 total readings.
- Colored…
Bite the Writenausauros! A Small Guide to Big Writing challenges the historically prevalent approach to language that assumes an overwhelming emphasis on mechanics. Instead, students approach language through the vision of Dr. Gertrude Buck (1900) – that language evolves through the human desire to communicate “organically” and “botanically.” Students encounter writing beyond product-oriented “correctness” – learning, instead, to “nourish” their ideas and “grow” their writing through Cicero’s steps of Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, and Delivery…
Writing for Results: An Introduction to Writing in the Real World of Science and Technology is a student-friendly text breaking down scientific, professional, and technical writing in two parts: Preparing to Write and Reasons for Writing.
Writing for Results: An Introduction to Writing in the Real World of Science and Technology:
- features access to an online ancillary website complete with test bank.
- assists informational writers to provide the information objectively and…
My first goal is to get students and teachers to think differently about writing, to change their perspective. But the perspectives I offer may not be easy to accept, whereas some of you may see these perspectives as a given. Certainly, there is nothing new about what I have gathered here, except for the perspectives that evolve from how I order this information to help us understand how we use language and how we communicate. I believe we will understand each other as a result.
Sometimes, thinking differently about something we think we already know promotes growth.
You may…
Designed to serve as a kind of primer for the college student entering college, Writing and Research for College: The Structures of Imaginative Literacy engages the student and demonstrates why first-year writing courses are such an important experience for students.
Writing and Research for College: The Structures of Imaginative Literacy describes how the reader should have a personal engagement with words before they apply words to any specific writing assignment that they are given. Furthermore, the student’s reading experience…
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Writing Insights: Discovering the Keys to Structure and Content is a unique writing textbook that offers a clearer…
Building Blocks: Skill Sets for Live–Fire Writing, Editing, and Grammar offers a unique approach to learning grammar, bridging the gap between traditional grammar books and using tools based on intuitive concepts. When students learn grammar as a series of building blocks, they learn to write proper sentences in any writing scenario.
As with most educational texts, English Express was designed to fill a void in classroom materials. For many ESL students, developing cultural literacy is as much a need as developing their language skills. While there are many ESL books that include readings on American culture, these tend to be on more broad-based socio-historical topics of Americana. It can, of course, be useful for English language learners to develop an awareness of various places and important events in American history, but knowledge of the local culture(s) is necessary for them to thrive…
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Building Bridges: A Thematic Approach to College Reading & Writing provides a complete process of research-based instruction that fully integrates reading and writing. This volume follows the prereading, during-reading, and postreading strategies that many scholars and practitioners have advocated and proven to be an effective reading/teaching tool. This book also offers comprehensive exercises for vocabulary words, which is essential for improving reading comprehension. Articles are drawn from local newspapers and magazines which build the connection from the…
The Anatomy of Narrative: Analyzing Fiction and Creative Nonfiction is an anthology wherein each narrative is followed by the author’s close analysis which focuses on shape and technique. Each analysis assists new writers in “seeing” form. Modeling exercises follow each piece while advice for writing follows each chapter in the fiction section. This book was written to teach students how to observe and “see” that which makes writing an art.
The goal of The Anatomy of Narrative is to enable students to become a better observer of the artistry in…
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Many outsiders might view New York City as inscrutable - a place too vast and complex to understand - never mind to live in. But residents of New York know the city as a place that has both limits and great possibilities.
The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing about New York City encourages the reader to explore the city in all of its complexity. Students taking their first or second composition class might approach writing and critical thinking as overwhelming, much like New York…
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The field of journalism has changed dramatically over the past decade - the Middle East experienced the “Arab Spring” of reform, Twitter and Facebook have gained social media users at an explosive rate, and newspapers, magazines and TV news programs continue to change and restructure.
One thing remains the same: the need for compelling and concise news stories. Now, more than ever, journalists need to be able to get the stories right. And they need to write and report faster than ever.
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In these on-going difficult financial times students need to find an edge on the competition. Effective business writing is crucial in order to succeed in their endeavors.
There's really no escaping the fact that students will be writing or talking to people on an ongoing basis in all facets of the business and work environment. Contexts & Choices: A Guide to Practical Writing…
Foundations for Writing: Building Paragraphs and Essays provides the reader the keys needed to succeed in academic writing and beyond! The book is structured similar to an effective writing process. It begins with pre-writing strategies, followed by sentence and paragraph structure, and concludes with different types of essays typical at two and four year institutions. The comprehensive publication includes student-friendly pedagogical features such as Editing Tips vignettes, end of chapter exercises, checklists, and sample student essays.
Why use examples from the world of law to learn how to write a college essay? By the power of language, rights are given or taken away, people are sent to jail, millions of dollars are awarded, families are altered, and the rules by which we live are determined.
There is no one that the law does not touch. By considering what goes on within the courtroom, Making the Best Case: Lessons in Writing from the World of Law observes principles that create effective writing and applies them to the task of writing the college essay.
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Writing in a business environment truly is a survival skill. Unfortunately, it also is a skill many fail to develop because of fear of failure. As managers, or as writers to or for managers, you should take the time to nourish the communication skills of others. Not only can you increase their self-confidence and productivity, but you also will strengthen communication in the workplace and between the workplace and the outside world.
Writing for Managers is a survival skills guide for a reader who can already write and now needs to…
Keep it Simple: A Guide to Business Writing is about writing all kinds of business documents clearly and concisely.
Keep it Simple: A Guide to Business Writing features:
- At least one “tip” in each chapter.
- Perforated writing assignments.
- A variety of business writing topics including memos, cover letters, email, and more.
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Writing Expository Paragraphs helps low-intermediate ESL students recognize the format and building blocks of an English paragraph. This text helps students generate ideas, construct sentences, and compose and edit paragraphs of various rhetorical styles. For each type of paragraph development, there are tasks that enable students to go through the writing process while learning rhetoric-specific format, sentence structures, and punctuation.
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Thoughtful Writing, through its advice and through its muscle-memory-developing exercises, teaches students how to succeed at any kind of investigative or argumentative writing. Its training in how to find and use telling details solves the mystifying problem of how to write enough words to fill your required number of pages.
This text demonstrates how to move from facts to inferences to a thesis and helps you write thesis statements that are genuinely thoughtful. It helps give warmth and life to your writing by making you conscious that you are writing…
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The Basics Book: Seven Keys to Good Writing tells you how to deliver on the basics, from a clear main point to a clean style. You’ll learn seven keys to good writing:
Key 1: The Basics of Organization
Key 2: The Basics of Paragraphs and Transitions
Key 3: The Basics of Sentences
Key 4: The Basics of Word Use
Key 5: The Basics of Grammar
Key 6: The Basics of Punctuation
Key 7: The Basics of Revision
Suitable for freshman English, adult workshops, and writers working on their own, The Basics Book…
Guiding Reading and Writing in the Content Areas: Practical Strategies is an instructional methods texts presenting literacy strategies for use by teachers in all subject areas. It is also a resource for administrators, teacher educators and literacy coaches.
This user-friendly text includes comprehension, vocabulary study skills, literature, writing, discussion, assessment and real world literacy strategies designed for immediate use. Throughout the book are reproducible student worksheets, student examples and lesson plans for designing and delivering content.…
News Writing in a Multimedia World addresses the new reality of today's journalists: reporters who excel in their profession can no longer consider themselves simply print reporters, broadcasters, or Internet-content providers -- they have to be
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What are your students' goals?
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Writing: Step by Step encourages your students to:
- Focus on the act of writing
- Learn the entire writing process
- Read and analyze student-authored examples of all stages in the writing process
- Develop skills using current trends, such as…
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Strategies for Reading and Writing, ed. William R. Epperson, Linda C. Gray, and Mark R. Hall, anthologizes essays, stories, and poems for students writing academic essays in the liberal arts. The book focuses on basic skills such as active reading, summarizing, and paraphrasing and suggests writing assignments that provide practice in the classic modes of development (e.g., description, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect) Exemplary essays of these modes are provided by such writers as Henry David Thoreau, C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, Jonathan…
