The Simon & Schuster Guide to Writing

In this book each chapter includes reading selections, assignments, and instruction that reinforce the writing instruction and assignments. These assignments provide students with a wide range of writing and reading opportunities that are personal, public, pragmatic, and aesthetic.

This purpose-based rhetoric with readings emphasizes the interactions between reading and writing. The text provides an innovative five-part organization comprised of a Concepts section that introduces purpose and audience and the reading/writing processes; the main section of the book, Purposes, that explains reading and writing purposes by way of thematically organized reading selections and writing assignments; a Research section that focuses on the resources and strategies required for both library and field research; a Strategies section that explains the strategies, techniques, and concepts writers use to create effective texts; and a Handbook that offers guidelines for diction, usage, punctuation, and mechanics. This five-part arrangement ensures that students have easy access to important concepts without the repetition of most purpose-based rhetorics. The Simon & Schuster Guide to Writing brief edition offers the same organization without the handbook.