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Steps for Writers: Composing Essays, Volume 2 (Penguin Academics Series), 1/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.)

Concise and affordable, Steps for College Writers, Volume 2, teaches students the basics of composing solid paragraphs and essays in preparation for freshman composition.

Steps for College Writers is organized around three phases of college writing—finding one's own writing process, writing essays based on one's own experience and perceptions, and writing essays involving texts and research. Grammar and usage, peer review, and student and professional models are incorporated throughout the text to effectively teach the writing process to today's developing writers.

FEATURES

• Affordable quality—As part of the Penguin Academic Series, Steps for College Writers offers a compact, trade-format size and streamlined narrative to make this book both easy to handle and easy to read. Its brevity and low cost allows instructors to easily supplement the basic text with other books.
• Graduated approach to grammar and composition—Because every developing writer is different and has specific needs, Phil Egger's has organized Steps for College Writers around three phases of college writing to provide the needed flexibility to developing writers. The three levels of grammar and writing exercises—"Basic," "Intermediate," Challenge"—enable students to evolve through the process, be efficient by not working below level, and get plenty of rehearsal.
• Confidence-building with student models and professional essays—The student models in each chapter offer examples of the kinds of writing students actually do; the professional examples provide texts for interpretation, analysis, and discussion, and are meant to inspire students to write better by witnessing how some of the best writers work. Additionally, students are exposed to a mix of genres such as fiction and poetry.
• Writing Tips boxes—Included in every chapter and meant to highlight core content from the chapters, these important reminders discuss tactics and the application of the material.
• Proofreading Practice—The importance of grammar is played out in the extensiveness of proofreading exercises that run throughout the text. Exercises in every chapter provide students with multiple opportunities to hone their grammar skills in various contexts, and are offered at the basic, intermediate, and challenge levels.
• Both critical and creative thinking are presents to pique interest in both forms and employ the imaginative faculties conjointly.

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