The College Writer: A Guide to Thinking, Writing, and Researching, MLA Update Book

Combining streamlined, nuts-and-bolts writing instruction with outstanding accessibility and visual appeal, The College Writer breaks new ground in brief rhetorics. From dynamic visuals to engaging essays and examples, the authors have made both content and presentation optimally exciting and useful for the student. While many first-year writing texts fail to appeal to visual learners, this book targets the needs of less-prepared students, with four-color line drawings, color-coded headings, easy-to-grasp graphic organizers, and other guiding design elements on nearly every two-page spread. These hallmark features have led to very successful Write Source titles, published by Houghton Mifflin's Great Source Division and on the College Division's College Survival list.Streamlined presentation. Avoiding the discursive, detailed presentation that often confuses or burdens students using other rhetorics, The College Writer opens each chapter with concise writing instruction followed by engaging examples and writing assignments. Diagrams, charts, and graphic organizers efficiently demonstrate ideas and principles, reducing the number of pages of text pages required for explanation.Engaging four-color design. Color-coded headings, humorous line drawings, and other four-color design elements guide students through the book and ensure better retention of material.Quick-reference features. Step-indexing and color-coding allow students to thumb directly into the topic they're looking for. Checklists and summary boxes make it easy to refer back to material covered earlier.Handbook. A built-in handbook adds to the easy reference features for student writers.Friendly, coaching tone. The authors' accessible presentation is exceptionally encouraging to students.Superior technology coverage. In addition to offering fully integrated material on writing-process related topics such as researching online and using an online writing lab, the text covers such issues as creating a web site and publishing online.Text-enhancing CD. A CD-ROM provides the entire text in searchable format. It takes students through one student writer's experience in writing a research paper and engages them with instructional video and audio clips, animated graphic organizers, and appealing interactive exercises.Read More