Patterns for College Writing, Brief Edition: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide - Softcover

Kirszner, Laurie G.; Mandell, Stephen R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1457683784 ISBN 13: 9781457683787

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2015

Synopsis

Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell, authors with thirty years of experience teaching college writing, know what works in the classroom and have a knack for picking just the right readings. In Patterns for College Writing , Brief Edition, they provide students with exemplary rhetorical models and instructors with class-tested selections that balance classic and contemporary essays. Along with more examples of student writing than any other reader, Patterns has the most comprehensive coverage of active reading, research, and the writing process, with a five-chapter mini-rhetoric; the clearest explanations of the patterns of development; the most thorough apparatus of any brief rhetorical reader; and the most comprehensive coverage of argumentative writing. And this new brief edition includes exciting new readings, images, and debate and casebook topics.

About this title

About the Author

During their long collaboration, Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell have written a number of best-selling college texts for Bedford/St. Martin's, including Patterns for College Writing, Foundations First, Writing First, Focus on Writing, and, most recently, Practical Argument. Laurie Kirszner is a Professor of English, Emeritus at the University of the Sciences, where she has taught composition, literature, creative writing, and scientific writing, and served as coordinator of the first-year writing program. Stephen Mandell is a Professor of English at Drexel University, where he founded and directed the basic writing program and has taught composition, literature, speech, and technical and business writing."

Edition details

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1457683784
• ISBN 13: 9781457683787
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640