Simon & Schuster Guide to Writing: Second Edition

By Donald H. Cunningham and Jeanette G. Harris

Each chapter includes reading selections, assignments, and instruction that reinforce the writing instruction and assignments. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0134565835
• ISBN13: 9780134565835
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 694 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Great learning tool

From the dust jacket: Open this book and discover a clear, new light on the reading and writing connection. This illuminating text features thematically grouped readings by both students and experienced writers, as well as the humane discourse of its teacher-theoretician authors, to help students understand and successfully accomplish the purposes and processes of reading and writing. The book is divided into four parts: ? Concepts-This section introduces purpose, audience, and the reading and writing processes. It includes a student's writing in progressive drafts to illustrate the process of creating a written text. ? Purposes-Each chapter includes readings and assignments for a common purpose and on a common theme, presenting reading and writing as closely related, meaning-constructing processes. ? Strategies-Because a given rehetorical term or strategy applies to a variety of purposes, an alphabetically arranged reference section defines and illustrates the terms, concepts, and strategies effective readers and writers need to know and use. ? Handbook-A concluding section offers guidelines for diction, usage, punctuation, and mechanics. Great thought has been put into the book's instruction in the assignments such that the students MUST read.