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Keys to Successful Writing, 3/e

BASIC APPROACH

(Note: This textbook was published by our college division for use by students at post-secondary institutions whose writing skills are below the level needed to succeed in college English. Please review this text carefully to ensure appropriateness of content for your students.)

Keys to Successful Writing is a rhetoric/reader/handbook that helps students become better writers by presenting straightforward, consistently applicable tools and techniques.

The book's organization flows from simple to more complex essays and focuses on five "keys" to successful essay writing—purpose, focus, material, structure, and style. This distinctive heuristic, developed by the author and tested in her classrooms, helps students focus on the skills and ways of thinking that will make them stronger writers. Featuring a student-friendly, highly accessible writing style, the text presents clear, specific strategies for writing. These methods are combined with student and professional models that are engaging, provocative, and contemporary. An editing handbook is also included to establish the text as a complete writing resource. A series of interactive writing exercises and activities and longer writing assignments give the text a predictable organizational structure that's easy to learn from and teach.

FEATURES

• "Using the Computer" sections offer suggestions and activities to teach students how to make the most of computers to write collaboratively, explore various Web sites, and conduct a job search.
• "Options for Writing" provide creative, thoughtful, absorbing prompts for student writing assignments.
• "Journal Writing" segments include advice on working with a journal and journal writing exercises.
• "Responding to Writing" activities ask students to reflect on and react to their own writing and others'.
• "A Writer's Toolkit" in Part III discusses résumés, letters, and writing portfolios to take students through college composition and beyond.
• Service learning writing options offer students the chance to get involved in their communities.
• A section on public speaking and public writing after Parts I and II, helps students link the "keys" of effective writing with those of effective speaking.

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