The Composition of Everyday Life (with 2016 MLA Update Card) (The Composition of Everyday Life Series) - Softcover

Mauk, John; Metz, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1337287253 ISBN 13: 9781337287258

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2016

Synopsis

Encouraging you to be an inventive thinker and writer, THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE illustrates how the act of writing is connected to your daily life as it helps you rediscover concepts, uncover meaning, and rethink the world around you. The fifth edition offers 13 chapters to help you invent ideas, more than any other text on the market. With more than 35 reading selections by both professional and student writers-many responding to the chapter prompts-this book fully engages you in writing academic essays. This text delivers pedagogy for making meaning and generating writing at the intersection of academic and nonacademic life. It is an excellent preparation for the reading and writing activities you will encounter throughout your college experience and well beyond. Each student text is packaged with a free Cengage Essential Reference Card to the MLA HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition.

About this title

About the Author:

John Mauk has a Ph.D. in rhetoric and writing from Bowling Green State University and a Masters in language and literature from the University of Toledo. Scholarship includes an article on critical geography and composition (COLLEGE ENGLISH, March 2003). Mauk now teaches composition and rhetoric courses at Northwestern Michigan College. In 2007, he served on the NCTE Nominating Committee.

John Metz has a B.A. in English from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (1983) and an M.A. in English from the University of Toledo (1985). He has taught first-year writing for over 20 years and currently teaches at Kent State University at Geauga in Twinsburg, Ohio.

Review:

"I love the concept that they are gathering inspiration for their writing all the time. So many students think writing is about sitting at a computer. This introduces them to the concept that they can be critically thinking, engaging in interesting conversations and paying attention to current events all day long, and then their brainstorming takes on a whole new dimension. "

"What immediately attracted me to the text was its clean design. . . . In a world of distraction, I think students might find this book to be easy to read. "

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1337287253
• ISBN 13: 9781337287258
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 832