Writing Today, Brief Edition (3rd Edition) - Softcover

Johnson-Sheehan, Richard; Paine, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321984749 ISBN 13: 9780321984746

Publisher: Pearson, 2015

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For courses in English Composition.

Organized by genre – practical for college and career

Accessible to students and flexible for instructors, Writing Today, Brief Edition, 3/e introduces students to the conventions of writing memoirs, profiles, literary analyses, arguments, research papers, and more. Each chapter features a step-by-step process for composing within a given genre, as well as exemplary student and professional readings to promote rhetorical knowledge and critical analysis. The 32 short chapters, the chunked writing style, and visual instruction work to ensure that students will transfer the skills and strategies practiced in your class to their other classes, their lives, and their careers. From its graphic “Quick Start Guides” to its “Write This” prompts, Writing Today, Brief Edition challenges students to extend the boundaries of their writing abilities as they practice composing for the real world.

 

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About the Author

Richard Johnson-Sheehan is a Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University, where he has directed the Introductory Composition program and mentored new teachers of composition for many years. He teaches a variety of courses in composition, professional writing, and writing program administration, as well as classical rhetoric and the rhetoric of science. He has published widely in these areas. His books on writing include  Writing Today,  now in its second edition and co-authored with Charles Paine;  Technical Communication Today , now in its fourth edition; and  Technical Communication Strategies for Today  and  Writing Proposals,  now in their second editions. Professor Johnson-Sheehan was awarded 2008 Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing and has been an officer in the Council for Writing Program Administrators.

Charles Paine is a Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches undergraduate courses in first-year, intermediate, and professional writing as well as graduate courses in writing pedagogy, the history of rhetoric and composition, and other areas. At UNM, he directed the Rhetoric and Writing Program and the First-Year Writing Program. He is an active member of the Council of Writing Program Administrators and currently serves on its Executive Board. He cofounded and coordinates the Consortium for the Study of Writing in College, a joint effort of the National Survey of Student Engagement and the Council of Writing Program Administrators. The Consortium conducts general research into the ways that undergraduate writing can lead to enhanced learning, engagement, and other gains related to student success. He is a co-author with Richard Johnson-Sheehan of  Writing Today.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0321984749
• ISBN 13: 9780321984746
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 656