The college writer. /
Randall VanderMey et al.
- 5th ed.
- London: Cengage Learning, 2015.
- xxxii, 735 p.: ill,;
Contents: A Rhetoric: College students guide to writing: Critical thinking through reading, viewing and writing -- Beginning the writing process -- Planning -- Drafting -- Revising -- Editing and proofreading -- Submitting writing and creating portfolios-- One writers process -- Reader: Strategies and models --Forms of college writing -- Narration, description and reflection -- Analytical writing: Cause and effect -- Comparison and contrast -- Classification -- Process -- Definition -- Reading literature: a case study in analysis -- Persuasive writing: Strategies for argumentation and persuasion -- Taking a position -- Persuading readers to act -- Proposing a solution -- Taking essay tests -- Writing for the workplace -- Preparing oral presentations -- Getting started from planning research to evaluating sources -- Conducting research primary, library, web -- Building credibility avoiding plagiarism -- rafting papers with documented research -- MLA style -- APA style -- Marketing punctuation -- Checking mechanics -- Using the right word -- Understanding grammar -- Constructing sentences -- Avoiding sentence errors -- Multilingual and ESL guidelines --