Focus on Writing: Paragraphs and Essays - Softcover

Kirszner, Laurie G.; Mandell, Stephen R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1457633272 ISBN 13: 9781457633270

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013

Synopsis

Focus on Writing offers students thorough coverage of writing college paragraphs and essays in a visually inviting format and with a unique tool for assessing and revising writing: the easy-to-grasp, easy-to-remember TEST method. Standing for Topic sentence or Thesis statement, Evidence, Summary statement, and Transitions, this practical tool helps students self-edit their writing for unity, support, and coherence. In this edition, best-selling authors Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell expand on their detailed, step-by-step guidance for developing paragraphs; offer more coverage of critical reading and thinking, a new chapter on college success, research; and provide new student models that reflect realistic student work.

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 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1457633272
• ISBN 13: 9781457633270
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 832