Readings for Writers (with 2016 MLA Update Card) - Softcover

McCuen-Metherell, Jo Ray; Winkler, Anthony C.

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9781337286879: Readings for Writers (with 2016 MLA Update Card)

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ISBN 10: 1337286877 ISBN 13: 9781337286879

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2016

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From helping you find your voice to guiding you on the latest MLA and APA documentation guidelines, READINGS FOR WRITERS is designed to help you become a more successful writer. Throughout the text, the authors offer helpful commentary, practical tips and suggestions, real student essays, and other writing tools that you can use for any assignment. But even more importantly, they present over 70 readings from a variety of genres and authors that will inspire and inform your writing as you learn what good writing is, and how to create it on your own. Each student text is packaged with a free Cengage Essential Reference Card to the MLA HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition.

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About the Author:

Born in Belgium, the daughter of an American minister, Jo Ray McCuen-Metherell had moved from Brussels to Paris to Bern, Switzerland, by the time she was seven years old. In Bern, she attended the Freies Gymnasium and spoke not only fluent French and German but also English, which was the language spoken to her by her American parents. After enduring World War II, Jo Ray's parents sent her and her brother to Pacific Union College (in the Napa Valley), where Jo Ray received a B. A. in English. After teaching English and French in high school for several years, Jo Ray started to take night classes at the University of Southern California in order to earn an M.A. and Ph.D., which would allow her to teach in college. While working on her doctorate, she was first hired to teach English at Glendale Community College and later to serve as Dean of the Evening College. A chance meeting in 1973 with Anthony C. Winkler, a successful novelist, led to a literary partnership that has produced 15 coauthored textbooks used at colleges and universities across the United States.

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"You cover the modes extremely well, first by explaining the occasion for each, but you also include the challenges students might face in each mode. These specifics are so much more helpful than the usual generalities."

"I like the organization of the whole book - how the chapters include a "road map to narration," "examples," and "issues." "

"I like the Issues for Critical Thinking and Debate included in each Part 2 chapter as a way to encourage student response and writing. No other text has included an "Issues" section like this. As I reviewed I began to realize I could use these in every assigned essay rather than have them write one research paper at the end of the semester."

"Love, love, love the images. Our world is a visual world and the topics are very appropriate for our students."

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