Writing Today
- ISBN-10
- 0134017366
- ISBN-13
- 9780134017365
- Series
- Writing Today
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 672
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-07-24
- Publisher
- Longman Publishing Group
- Authors
- Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Charles Paine
Description
With a clear and easy-to-read presentation, visual instruction and pedagogical support, Writing Today is a practical and useful guide to writing for college and beyond. This text teaches how to transfer their writing skills to careers. By teaching kinds of writing (analyses, reports, proposals, etc.), strategies for writing (narration, comparison, argumentation, etc.), and processes for writing (planning, drafting, revising, etc.), Writing Today provides the writer with tools they can mix and match as needed to respond effectively to many writing situations.
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- 2005
- 856 pages
- Paperback
- McGraw-Hill Companies
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