Models for Writers: Short Essays for Composition - Softcover

Rosa, Alfred; Eschholz, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312552017 ISBN 13: 9780312552015

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012

Synopsis

It s a simple, best-selling combination that has worked for thousands of students short, accessible essays and helpful, thorough writing instruction. Models for Writers continues to offer thought-provoking selections organized to demonstrate not only the rhetorical patterns that students will use in their own essays but also the elements and language that will make those essays effective. This edition offers more coverage of the key elements of academic writing, including new strategies for writing a research paper and a section on writing a reflective essay.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa are professors emeriti of English at the University of Vermont. They have directed statewide writing programs and conducted numerous workshops throughout the country on writing and the teaching of writing. Eschholz and Rosa have collaborated on a number of best-selling texts for Bedford/St. Martin's, including Subject & Strategy, Twelfth Edition; with Virginia Clark, Language Awareness, Tenth Edition; with Virginia Clark and Beth Simon, Language: Readings in Language and Culture, Seventh Edition; and Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers, Fourth Edition. Eschholz and Rosa have one of the longest-running writing partnerships in college textbook publishing, extending back to 1971.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312552017
• ISBN 13: 9780312552015
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 752