Focus on Writing: Paragraphs and Essays - Softcover

Kirszner, Laurie G.; Mandell, Stephen R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031260341X ISBN 13: 9780312603410

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010

Synopsis

Focus on Writing: Paragraphs and Essays is a clear, inviting text that engages students visually, demonstrates concepts with color and highlighting, and offers students the support and coverage they need to write well in college. Focus on Writing offers the unique self-assessment tool TEST (Topic sentence, Evidence, Summary statement, and Transitions), which works clearly and simply to motivate students and empowers them to become capable writers and self-editors. In this revision, best-selling authors Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell provide more support for moving from paragraph to essay, more step-by-step coverage of the writing process, and more diverse examples, exercises, and models, making the text both student-friendly and thorough.

About this title

About the Author:

During their more than 25-year collaboration, LAURIE KIRSZNER and STEPHEN MANDELL have produced a number of best-selling college texts for Bedford/St. Martin's, including Foundations First: Sentences and Paragraphs (2008), Writing First: Practice in Context (2009), Patterns for College Writing (2010), and Practical Argument (2011). Laurie Kirszner teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Stephen Mandell is the founder and former director of the basic writing program at Drexel University, where he teaches composition, literature, and technical and business writing. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 031260341X
• ISBN 13: 9780312603410
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 816