Product Description: READINGS FOR WRITERS is the preeminent rhetorical reader for the freshman composition course. This bestseller continues its tradition of providing comprehensive coverage of the writing and research process, while also offering a wide variety of appealing readings...read more

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Product Description: For Developmental writing courses   There are many different ways in which developing writers learn. Winkler and McCuen-Matherall have created a writing series that takes into account many of the known difficulties that developing writing students have with English language skills and strategies...read more

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Product Description: READINGS FOR WRITERS is the preeminent rhetorical reader for the freshman composition course. This bestseller continues its tradition of providing comprehensive coverage of the writing and research process, while also offering a wide variety of appealing readings...read more

Product Description: READINGS FOR WRITERS is the preeminent rhetorical reader for the freshman composition course. This bestseller continues its tradition of providing comprehensive coverage of the writing and research process, while also offering a wide variety of appealing readings...read more

Product Description: READINGS FOR WRITERS is the preeminent rhetorical reader for the freshman composition course. This bestseller continues its tradition of providing comprehensive coverage of the writing and research process, while also offering a wide variety of appealing readings...read more

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Product Description: For Developmental writing courses   There are many different ways in which developing writers learn. Winkler and McCuen-Matherall have created a writing series that takes into account many of the known difficulties that developing writing students have with English language skills and strategies...read more

Product Description: For Developmental writing courses   There are many different ways in which developing writers learn. Winkler and McCuen-Matherall have created a writing series that takes into account many of the known difficulties that developing writing students have with English language skills and strategies...read more

Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more

Product Description: Grammar Matters examines the answers to the questions “what exactly is grammar and why is it necessary to understand and use it correctly?” by demonstrating the practical realities of acceptable usage.

Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more

Grammar Matters examines the answers to the questions “what exactly is grammar and why is it necessary to understand and use it correctly?” by demonstrating the practical realities of acceptable usage.

Product Description: Get simple, specific guidance on writing a research paper with WRITING THE RESEARCH PAPER: A HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition. With its easy-to-digest steps that demystify the writing process, this accessible handbook gives you the tools you need to work independently to create well-constructed research papers-throughout your college career and beyond...read more

Provides advice on choosing a subject, doing research, and writing the paper, according to two widely accepted style manuals.

Product Description: FROM IDEA TO ESSAY is a rhetorically arranged rhetoric/reader/research paper guide/handbook that systematically leads students through the complex process of writing an essay. Part I covers the fundamentals of essay writing. The heart of the book, Part II, teaches the nine rhetorical modes in nine identically structured chapters...read more

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Product Description: Get simple, specific guidance on writing a research paper with WRITING THE RESEARCH PAPER: A HANDBOOK, 7E. With its easy-to-digest steps that demystify the writing process, this accessible handbook gives you the tools you need to work independently to create well-constructed research papers--throughout your college career and beyond...read more

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Authors Winkler and McCuen-Matherell have created a two-book writing series that takes into account many of the known difficulties that developing writing students have with English language skills and strategies. The authors have successfully reached more students by providing the most varied practice exercises of any writing text: Every unit contains Practice Exercises, Unit Tests, Unit Talk-Write Exercises, Unit Collaborative Assignments, Unit Writing Assignments, and Photo Writing Assignments.  These diverse exercises will help students of all types—visual, auditory, and collaborative learners—learn and retain the material.