Product Description: Quick Access Brief, from trusted authors Lynn Troyka and Doug Hesse, provides both composition students and instructors with the support they need to be successful, and is designed for easy, economical access to the most important concepts in writing...read more

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Product Description: The Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers, from trusted authors Lynn Troyka and Doug Hesse, provides you with the support you need to be successful. Providing the most balanced coverage of the writing process, grammar, research, and topics, Troyka and Hesse give you practical advice about the writing they you will do in composition courses, in other classes, and in the world beyond...read more

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The authors of Structured Reading have developed an innovative approach to teaching reading at the college level: detailed instruction in the separate skills areas followed by extensive, repeated practice.   Using an FAQ approach, Part One includes instruction in the separate college-level reading skills that students need.  Parts Two through Six contain thirty complete reading selections drawn from books, magazines, newspapers, and textbooks in disciplines across the curriculum.

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This time-honored, comprehensive program for basic writers features a unique instructional format that combines the fundamentals of grammar, mechanics, rhetoric, vocabulary, and spelling, with contemporary topics of interest and participatory exercises that require users to get fully involved by creating, changing, rewriting, or correcting. Flexible in format, the chapters can be used in whatever sequence suits the individual. Vocabulary Building section consists of words clustered around the major topic of the chapter and a variety of exercises to help readers use these words comfortably and correctly. Presents Spelling Lessons that help readers to master useful spelling rules and patterns. Features a special Grammar and Rhetoric Skills section which presents important grammatical or rhetorical steps to writing successful compositions in small easy-to-understand steps. Uses Keypoint Checklist reference charts throughout to help users find the most important points as they write, revise, and edit writing pieces. Includes a new section on Verb Tense Consistency that provides clear explanations and many opportunities to practice the skill. Expands the section on The Essay to include more information and several essays that illustrate Explaining a Process, Constructing a Definition, and Arguing an Opinion

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Product Description: This quick reference handbook offers the same user-friendly approach widely hailed in Troyka's other best-selling handbooks—with additional features that allow writers to access information quickly. Additional content on such topics as critical thinking and grammar basics, makes this an even more complete manual...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Freshman Composition and other writing courses, including courses with an emphasis on writing across the curriculum. Designed to serve as the core text in college composition programs and as a handy reference throughout college, this comprehensive handbook begins with coverage of the writing process, and then treats all aspects of grammar, punctuation, and style. The Simon & Schuster Handbook includes chapters on critical reading and thinking, the research process, writing across the curriculum, and writing argument. Like the second edition, the revision is based on the latest research in composition and takes a thoroughly modern approach to the teaching of writing. The unparalleled supplements package features the Annotated Instructor's Edition of the handbook, a resource that has become indispensable in many composition programs.

Product Description: This text addresses the needs of readers to see themselves and their future in a more meaningful way while reinforcing the most basic learning skills necessary for college and career success. The insights of the authors will help readers better understand themselves, the demands of college, and the challenges and opportunities that await them in the real world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Best selling hardback reference handbook. Revision highlights Lynn Troyka's accessible style and clear explanations. Complete on-line coverage included. New design is color coded with an open layout for quicker, easier access to information...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)