Transitions: From Reading to Writing - Softcover

Clouse, Barbara Fine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070114277 ISBN 13: 9780070114272

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College, 1994

Synopsis

A collection of 62 readings, arranged thematically, and support for student writers. The work includes three introductory chapters which provide clear instruction with a variety of student examples, showing how to be an active reader, how to write in response to reading and how to make the best use of writing-process principles. Chapters 4-12 offer a varied collection of essays, many by women and people from minority and ethnic backgrounds. Each essay is accompanied by extensive teaching apparatus, which provide a wide range of pre- and post-reading activities, including collaborative ones. The work also relates reading to writing by helping students apply features evident in the readings to their own writing. Writing opportunities provide a variety of length, difficulty and purpose. They also include both private and public writing, analytical and experimental writing, academic and non-academic topics. Each reading is followed by "workshops", "workshop activities" and idea generation, drafting, revising and editing activities. These focus on some aspect of rhetoric, grammar, usage or style evident in the reading and help students apply them in their own writing.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Clouse has taught all levels of college composition, first at Youngstown State University in northeastern Ohio and then at Slippery Rock University in western Pennsylvania. She has also written a number of composition texts. In addition to A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers, her books include The Student Writer: Editor and Critic, Jumpstart: A Workbook for Writers, Patterns for a Purpose: A Rhetorical Reader, and Transitions: From Reading to Writing, all written for McGraw-Hill. She has also developed Cornerstones: Readings for Writers, which is a short prose reader that is part of Primis, McGraw-Hill's custom publishing database. Barbara has also written Progressions with Readings and Conventions and Expectations: A Brief Handbook and Guide to Writing for Longman Publishers. A frequent presenter at national and regional conferences, Barbara often conducts workshops for writing teachers. McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0070114277
• ISBN 13: 9780070114272
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 461