Synopsis
This new, concise version of The Longwood Guide to Writing is among the most accessible, up-to-date, and authoritative aims-based short rhetorics on the market. The Longwood Guide to Writing, Concise Edition, introduces the writing and reading processes and then offers six aims-based writing occasions, ranging from personal essays, to informative and evaluative essays, and position, persuasive, and problem/solution essays. A comprehensive chapter on research and writing from sources and a chapter on oral presentations teach students skills essential to success in college and after.
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From the Back Cover
Reflecting Ron Lunsford and Bill Bridges' fifty years of combined teaching experience, The Longwood Guide to Writing is among the most accessible, up-to-date, and authoritative rhetorical guides to writing. A three-chapter sequence at the beginning of the text details strategies for the writing process, from generating ideas to shaping those ideas to rewriting. The invention chapter provides an extraordinary variety of prewriting strategies-some of them unique to this book-while the revision chapter addresses both paragraph-level and global revision. A chapter on responding to readings strengthens reading skills both as a means of generating ideas for writing and as a way to become more critical readers of their own writing and that of their peers. Research and writing with resources, essay writing and writing portfolios are each covered in their own comprehensive chapters. The Second Edition features an expanded emphasis on the Internet, and twelve new professional essays. For those interested in developing their reading, writing and critical thinking skills.
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