Writing: A College Handbook

Through four successful editions, Writing: A College Handbook’s positive approach has not only empowered students to write effectively, it has challenged students to consider why good writing matters.

The Fifth Edition builds on this emphasis, exemplifying in clear, engaging prose the skills that students need to communicate in a wide variety of rhetorical contexts.  A reliable and easy-to-use reference tool and an up-to-date rhetoric and research guide, Writing: A College Handbook invites students to discover the power of effective writing.

Janet Atwill is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, where she teaches courses in writing, critical theory, and rhetorical history and theory. She is currently working with faculty across the university in developing service learning and cultural studies programs. Her research focuses on rhetoric as an art of intervention and invention. Professor Atwill is the author of Rhetoric Reclaimed: Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition.

James A. W. Heffernan, Professor of English and Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College, has published extensively on English Romantic poetry and on the relation between literature and visual art. His books include Wordsworth’s Theory of Poetry: The Transforming Imagination, The Re-Creation of Landscape: A Study of Wordsworth, Constable, and Turner, Representing the French Revolution: Literature, Historiography, and Art, and Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis.