Composing with Confidence: Writing Effective Paragraphs and Essays (5th Edition) - Softcover

Meyers, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321038029 ISBN 13: 9780321038029

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1999

Synopsis

Bringing together an outstanding group of thinkers, Worlds in Collision is the essential book for understanding the debate about the future of global order in the wake of international terrorism and the war in Afghanistan. It not only addresses the first phase of the war against international terrorism, but also looks at the wider regional and global ramifications.

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This reader-friendly sixth edition of Composing with Confidence focuses on the writing of paragraphs and essays within the composing process. Readers are guided step by step through the process, but are provided with options in prewriting, discovery, outlining, and predicting. Each chapter in the unit on the rhetorical modes offers academic and professional model paragraphs and essays, along with a well-wrought paragraph assignment, an optional essay writing assignment, and at least five alternative assignments. A new chapter, Writing on the Job, offers instruction in and models of a job application letter, a risumi, and two memos. A repeated feature offers practice in summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, and arranging material from outside sources. And two new features, Blueprints for Writing and Unit Summaries, offer quick visual summaries of the most important points of the chapter or unit. A full unit on sentence-level issues of grammar and mechanics offers instruction in only those skills that are needed to make writing clear and grammatically correct. Each chapter in the unit ends with two "Editing for Mastery" exercises. "Tips" boxes and "If Your First Language Is Not English" boxes also provide short, specific, and practical advice. The book retains its most popular feature: fast-paced, high-interest, continuous discourse materials that makes it fun to read and work with. For those interested in developing their writing skills at the paragraph to essay level.

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0321038029
• ISBN 13: 9780321038029
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 542