Writing Intensive - Softcover

Maimon, Elaine; Peritz, Janice; Blake Yancey, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073384054 ISBN 13: 9780073384054

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2012

Synopsis

Writing Intensive includes grammar basics and sourcing information in an ultra brief format. The Maimon handbooks support student and instructor success by consistently presenting and using the writing situation as a framework for beginning, analyzing and navigating any type of writing. Start Smart offers an easy, step-by-step process map to navigate three common types of writing assignments. Other new features support critical thinking and deeper understandings of common assignments.

About this title

About the Author:

Elaine P. Maimon is President of Governors State University in the south suburbs of Chicago, where she is also Professor of English. Previously she was Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage, Provost (Chief Campus Officer) at Arizona State University West, and Vice President of Arizona State University as a whole. In the 1970s, she initiated and then directed the Beaver College writing-across-the-curriculum program, one of the first WAC programs in the nation. A founding Executive Board member of the National Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA), she has directed national institutes to improve the teaching of writing and to disseminate the principles of writing across the curriculum. With a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania, where she later helped to create the Writing Across the University (WATU) program, she has also taught and served as an academic administrator at Haverford College, Brown University, and Queens College.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0073384054
• ISBN 13: 9780073384054
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 464