Focus on Writing: What College Students Want to Know Paperback - 2018
by McMillan, Laurie
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- Title Focus on Writing: What College Students Want to Know
- Author McMillan, Laurie
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 382
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Broadview Press Inc
- Date 2018-11-02
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1554813883.G
- ISBN 9781554813889 / 1554813883
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6.5 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 16.51 x 2.29 cm)
From the rear cover
This first-year composition rhetoric-reader uses a Writing about Writing (WAW) approach and a conversational style to help students engage in threshold concepts and transfer what they know about writing to new situations. Each chapter asks a key question such as "Why Write?" or "What Is the Rhetorical Situation and Why Should I Care about It?" Preliminary answers to the chapter question are provided in accessible prose, and these initial ideas are supplemented with a selection of three or four readings and a list of recommended online texts.
Prompts for informal and formal writing projects keep the focus on writing and help students apply writing studies scholarship to their own lives in meaningful ways.
A companion website includes recommended WAW resources, assignment supports, and links to additional readings: sites.broadviewpress.com/focusonwriting