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Academic Acts provides a streamlined approach to academic writing by exploring three crucial acts—summary, analysis, and synthesis—while covering the basic skills that students need to read, write, and research effectively.

Academic Writing introduces core concepts used across a variety of disciplines in order to help students recognize patterns that appear in all academic reading and writing situations.

The Active Reader offers a practical, integrated treatment of academic reading and writing at the post-secondary level. Thirty thought-provoking readings that highlight a variety of disciplines and rhetorical patterns are accompanied by comprehension and analysis exercises that encourage students to apply critical thinking skills to their assignments.

This compact version of Canada's most trusted guide to research, writing, and documentation offers advice that is guaranteed to help writers of all skill levels master the writing process. With streamlined discussions of composition, grammar and style, spelling and punctuation, research practices, and a fully updated documentation section, this is an essential reference for all students.

Learning to write arguments in college Composition classrooms can sometimes seem artificial, pointless, or even contrived, which leads to disengaged students--and disengaged writing. By teaching argument within the context of case studies, instructors can provide greater opportunity for student engagement. Students often respond enthusiastically to a case, which offers them a dynamic environment to work within, rather than simply a static paper t...

This streamlined version of Canada's most trusted guide to research, writing, and documentation delivers invaluable advice on every aspect of the writing process, from composing a sentence to producing a full-length research paper.

Doing Grammar is a practical and lively guide to discovering how the English language works. Using strong visuals and an engaging style, Max Morenberg builds upon traditional frameworks with modern linguistic theories and provides accessible explanations for the composition of sentences. Now in its fifth edition, Doing Grammar includes up-to-date examples and features, while retaining its unique voice.

The English Language is an essential survey of the development of the language from its Indo-European past to the present day. Now in a third edition, this text offers enhanced discussion of the socio-historical and cultural contexts of the English language, new approaches to the history of English, and an anthology of specimen texts from the four major periods of English: Old, Middle, Early Modern, and Modern.

Essay Do's and Don'ts is a concise, practical guide on the fundamentals of essay writing loaded with research tips, writing samples, and practice exercises that will help students build the essential skills they need to produce well-written, highly effective essays.

In today's complex workplace, no one wants to read what you write. The Essentials of Technical Communication, Fifth Edition, was developed with this principle in mind. The respected author team continues to provide students with accessible and comprehensive instructions for planning, drafting, and revising technical documents that are clear and concise.

Connie Snyder Mick's innovative textbook shows how good writing changes the world. Designed for first-year writing courses, Good Writing: An Argument Rhetoric provides a step-by-step approach to help students design scalable, supportable, and significant compositions. The book's rhetorical instruction and diverse readings advance the concept of writing for social change, providing a strong foundation for community-engaged writing

How Scholars Write is an affordable, pocket-sized writing guide that offers a descriptive approach to research and composition. Instead of providing specific formulas or asserting how one "should" write, the authors examine how actual scholars work. Designed to be easy to integrate into existing curricula, How Scholars Write demystifies the scholarly writing process by detailing expert strategies that all writers can use.

College students are expected to master new genres in every course they take. Yet composition instructors can't possibly teach students every genre they will need for their college courses or careers. Instead of telling students how to write a genre, authors Jack and Pryal help students learn how a genre works using a genre toolkit that asks three questions: "What is it?" "Who reads it?" and "What's it for?" By taking this problem-solving approac...

One of the leading texts in technical writing, Reporting Technical Information introduces students to all aspects of effective professional communication, including letters, proposals, progress reports, recommendation reports, research reports, instructions, and oral reports.

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Technical Editing: A Twenty-First-Century Introduction offers a comprehensive and fully current approach to technical and professional editing. With a first part covering core competencies of practicing technical editors and a second part examining the factors inherent in professional culture, Technical Editing's experienced author team makes accessible the most complete and up-to-date instruction in the field of technical and professional editin...

Written for today's college students, Who Says? The Writer's Research addresses contemporary research issues head on, including research in the age of collaborative information sites like Wikipedia. Authors Deborah Holdstein and Danielle Aquiline prompt students to think critically about matters of ownership and authority to show them how to find and incorporate credible sources in their writing. By teaching them how to synthesize their own ideas...

Now in a new edition, Writing Public Policy is a practical, concise guide to writing and communicating in public policy processes. Designed to help students understand and perform common types of communication used in solving public problems, this text explains the standards and functions of communicating in the public sector and teaches the use of selected public policy communication genres. Catherine F. Smith presents a general method for plann...

Writing in Music demystifies music writing conventions and methods by offering strategies for the types of writing that students most often encounter in college courses on music. The book offers guidance through the writing process and, for research assignments, through the research process. Geared for an audience of music majors and other students taking undergraduate music-major courses--as well as for master's students in music desiring more t...