A Student Guide to College Composition - Softcover

Murdick, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0875730507 ISBN 13: 9780875730509

Publisher: Jain Pub Co, 2011

Synopsis

This book helps students succeed in composition by showing them: How to be effective students How to handle the most difficult challenges of academic writing How to approach the most common writing assignments. How to pass a timed writing test William Murdick has a Ph. D. in rhetoric and is the author of three other writing textbooks, The Portable Business Writer (Houghton Mifflin, 1999), and The Portable Technical Writer (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), and College Writing: A First Course - Writing and Reasoning (Jain, 2006).Note on the Second Edition: This expanded Second Edition includes full-chapter treatments of the five-paragraph theme and the cause-effect essay.

About this title

From the Publisher

A Student Guide to College Composition is meant to serve as a conventional textbook, though it can also be used by students independently to help them do well in composition.

Part I: Succeeding in Composition describes teacher expectations in various models of the composition course. It then elaborates on nineteen do's and don'ts (attend class; understand assignments, turn in neat copy, etc.). The premise is that most student failure in composition results from ineffective behavior, not hopelessly poor writing ability.

Part II: Meeting the Challenges of Academic Writing looks in detail at three of the most difficult and important challenges of academic writing: full development of points, educated adult reasoning, and the incorporation of outside sources.

Part III: Handling the Major Assignments shows students how to create a well-developed first draft of the five most common writing assignments: the personal narrative, the informative article, the argument on a controversial issue, the literary criticism paper, and the long research paper.

About the Author

William Murdick has a Ph.D. in rhetoric and over thirty years experience teaching composition at the university level. He has published articles on the teaching of writing, as well as textbooks on business and technical writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jain Pub Co
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875730507
• ISBN 13: 9780875730509
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 227