Writing Worth Reading: The Critical Process

by Nancy Huddleston Packer and John Timpane

An unusually practical rhetoric and handbook, Writing Worth Reading helps students develop the critical thinking, reading, and writing skills necessary for college-level work while it emphasizes the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312061013
• ISBN13: 9780312061012
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Bedford Books
• Length: 594 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

highly recommended to improve your critical sense of reading and writing.

This book is highly recommended for those interested to improve their critical thinking, reading, and writing. The book will guide you step by step to improve your sense of critical reading and writing. However, the book is not for the beginners or to those who just started to learn how to write.

The Perfect Writing Book

Whether you earn your living from your writing or you are a new writer seeking to improve, "Writing Worth Reading" is an ever-present help. It helps the writer manage the writing process better than any resource I've ever read.It starts with the premise that good reading and thinking are companions to good expository writing and builds from there. It offers everything: from preparing to write to how to think critically to making effective arguments to grammar and punctuation. Loaded with detailed examples and case studies. Original advice and direction for every writing situation. It's compact, easy to read and, for a college textbook, written with refreshing style."Writing Worth Reading" lives up to its title. It's the best investment in a writing resource I ever made.