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This rhetorically arranged reader contains 72 sections (48 essays, 8 stories, 16 paragraphs) representing voices and views from student and professional writers. The Riverside Reader encourages students to view organisational forms not just as techniques for writing, but also as a means of thinking and a way to discover a purpose for writing.
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The visual plays a central role in multimediated, computerized culture. The question is: how can we exploit the intersections between the visual and the verbal to improve learning? This text explores ways to capitalize on visually connected pedagogy.
EFICTIONS is a unique anthology that provides a creative solution for the Introductory Fiction or Introductory Literature course. The text is an engaging collection of the best-loved and most-taught short stories in English. EFICTIONS contains: an introduction that covers the reading, writing, and research process; "Paired Stories," a short anthology of 10 stories that enables students to compare how two authors develop one of the major fictional elements; "A Collection of Stories," a longer anthology of 59 stories arranged alphabetically, but accompanied by a thematic table of contents; and a glossary of critical terms.
Teaching our children to think and reason mathematically is a challenge, not because students can't learn to think mathematically, but because we must change our own often deeply-rooted teaching habits. This is where instructional routines come in. Their predictable design and repeatable nature support both teachers and students to develop new habits. In Teaching for Thinking, Grace Kelemanik and Amy Lucenta pick up where their first book, Routines for Reasoning, left off. They draw on their years of experience in the classroom and as instructional coaches to examine how educators can make use of routines to make three fundamental shifts in teaching practice: Focus on thinking: Shift attenti...
Writing with a Purpose has always been distinguished by its emphasis on the role of purpose in the writing process, its comprehensive coverage for first-year writing, and its effective use of examples and exercises. Designed as a four-in-one (rhetoric, reader, research guide, handbook) for one- and two-semester composition courses, this respected and reliable text has helped train countless students. The Fourteenth Edition includes streamlined coverage to allow for expanded material on such critical topics as research and argumentation. A technology program, Writing with a Purpose Online, allows students to access writing guidance as needed while drafting and revising. Students receive the most up-to-date information on MLA documentation with the enclosed tri-fold card providing NEW 2009 MLA Handbook formats.
Relied on by generations of writers, the MLA Handbook is published by the Modern Language Association and is the only official, authorized book on MLA style. The new, ninth edition builds on the MLA's unique approach to documenting sources using a template of core elements--facts, common to most sources, like author, title, and publication date--that allows writers to cite any type of work, from books, e-books, and journal articles in databases to song lyrics, online images, social media posts, dissertations, and more. With this focus on source evaluation as the cornerstone of citation, MLA style promotes the skills of information and digital literacy so crucial today. The many new and updat...