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Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, Brief, The, 8/E
Stephen P Reid

ISBN-10: 0136017142
ISBN-13:  9780136017141

Publisher:  Longman
Copyright:  2008
Format:  Paper; 792 pp
Published:  11/20/2007


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For undergraduate Composition I and II courses.

 

From the first edition, The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers has focused on writing for a variety of purposes in a rhetorical situation.  Although audience, context, and writing situation are important, a writer’s purpose should be and has always been the focal point of the sequence of assignments.  The Prentice Hall Guide begins with observing and remembering, which are personally important to the writer.  It then turns to more reader-based, academic purposes, including critical reading, expository writing, and argumentative writing.  Each chapter in this sequence is self-contained, with introductions, guidelines, professional and student models, writing process advice, research tips, revising guidelines, peer review questions, and postscript reflections on the assignment.

 

This compact, efficient guide touches on all the critical aspects of college writing - both personal and academic - within rich, self-contained chapters - no more flipping back and forth between sections to find appropriate guidelines, models, and writing process information.


Features

Comprehensive, self-contained chapters.

  • Each chapter in The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers is self-contained, covering: 
    • Introductions
    • Rhetorical guidelines
    • Professional and student models
    • Writing process advice
    • Research tips
    • Revising guidelines
    • Peer review questions
    • Postscript reflections on the assignment
  • All the writing process materials necessary for a particular assignment are contained within each chapter so instructors don’t have to assign readings from a variety of chapters.
  • An emphasis on the Rhetorical Situation in every chapter.  This emphasis meets the goals as outlined by the Council of Writing Program Administrators. 
    • Chapter 2, Situations, Purposes, and Processes for Writing, illustrates this rhetorical emphasis which continues throughout the text.
  • Critical thinking and critical reading are key goals of the PHG. 
    • Chapter 5, Reading, best illustrates these strategies for critical reading.
    • Chapter 11, Arguing, best illustrates strategies for critical thinking.

Balanced approach between both personal and academic writing.

  • The chapters in The Prentice Hall Guide are carefully sequenced, to move the student from personal writing to more reader-based, academic purposes.
  • The Prentice Hall Guide begins with purposes that are important for the writer personally — observing and remembering — and then turns to critical reading, expository writing, and argumentative writing.   
  • The Prentice Hall Guide has a sequence of writing assignments that build on the skills practiced in previous chapters. 
    • Writing an effective arguing essay, for example, builds on the skills of observation and personal writing, on analytic and critical reading, and on expository writing. 
  • Teachers may select the chapters most appropriate for their own syllabus without losing the benefits of the sequenced assignments.

Instructor and student friendly.

  • The Prentice Hall Guide appeals to both students and teachers. 
  • The PHG appeals to students through clear explanations, an accessible voice, and student writing in every chapter.  Students want concise, clear explanations, and student models representing interesting topics and style levels that they can achieve.  
  • In its Annotated Instructor’s Edition, the PHG gives teachers tips in the margin about teaching strategies, critical reading activities, peer response ideas, ESL notes, and Write-to-Learn activities.  The annotations, combined with the clear sequence of chapters, gives teaching assistants, adjunct teachers, and experienced teachers ample guidance throughout the text.


New To This Edition

  • New! Chapter 6:  Analyzing and Designing Visuals. 
    • The field of composition now emphasizes visual communication as complementary to text-only presentations.
    • The focus of this chapter is not just on adding visual elements, but putting these elements in a rhetorical context. 
  • New! Increased emphasis on writing for a variety of genres for both academic and public audiences.
    • Students now have more models and more guidelines for writing public documents such as editorials, letters, blogs, and proposals – in addition to having guidelines for document preparation for academic and public audiences, including writing and designing brochures, pamphlets, and flyers.
  • New! Introduction of a multi-genre casebook on Immigration Reform in the Arguing chapter.
    • This chapter gives teachers and students a wider variety of kinds of argument and argumentative appeals by presenting the full range of genres represented in the current public debate about immigration.  
    • This short casebook of readings contains examples of the essay, article, opinion piece, letters to the editor, blog entries, web pages, photographs, and cartoons.
  • New! Research chapter has been revised to add more information about research, MLA and APA citation, as well as clearer illustration through visual presentations of research features.
  • New! Over thirty new selections on contemporary topics to update the eighth edition with current topics such as immigration reform, global warming, food and diet, credit-card management, evaluating websites, and living with Facebook. Featured authors include Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, Wendell Berry, Suze Orman, Adris Scharf, Jonathan Alter, Robert J. Samuelson, Ellen Goodman, and Susan Bordo.

 Detailed list of NEW Readings. 

  • Chapter Four:  Remembering 
    • Daniel Alejandrez, “Cesar Chavez Saved My Life,”  Sojourners, August 2006, pp. 28-31 
  • Chapter Five:  Reading 
    • “Global Warming:  Can It be Stopped?”  The Week, February 16, 2007,  p. 6.
    • Four Responses to the United Nation’s Report on Climate Change:
      • “Heating Up,” The Economist, February 10, 2007, p. 86.
      • “Planet Gore,  The National Review, March 5, 2007, pp. 15-16.
      • William K. Stevens, “On the Climate Change Beat,” The New York Times, February 6, 2007
      • Robert J. Samuelson, “Global Warming and Hot Air,” The Washington Post, February 7, 2007, A17.
  • Chapter Six:  Analyzing and Designing Visuals  [Listed in order of appearance in chapter]
    • Jonathan Alter,  “Progress or Not,” Newsweek, October 25, 2006.
    • Joe Rosenthal,  “Flag Raising on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945.
    • Tania Ralli, “Who’s a Looter?”  New York Times, September 5, 2005.
    • “Causes of Death,” [sidebar with chart] Time, Dec. 4, 2006, p. 68.
    • James Twitchell,  “Miss Clairol’s “Does She . . . Or Doesn’t She?”:  How to Advertise a Dangerous Product.”
    • Susan Bordo,  “Never Just Pictures,” Twilight Zones:  The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J.  (1997)
    • Ellen Goodman, “Out of the Picture on the Abortion Ban” Permission granted for PHG 7/e
    • Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner, “Triple Self Portrait”  Permission granted for PHG, 7/e
    • Ellen Goodman, “Out of the Picture on the Abortion Ban,” Boston Globe  [Permission granted in PHG, 7/e]
    • Carolyn Kleiner Butler, “Coming Home,” Smithsonian, January 2005, pp. 22-23.
  • Chapter Seven:  Investigating 
    • Debra Bruno, “A Mother and her Daughter Face up to Facebook,  Christian Science Monitor, January 18, 2007.  
    • Adria Scharf.  “Scripted Talk,”  from Dollars and Sense, (2002) 
  • Chapter Eight :  Explaining 
    • Suze Orman, “How to Take Control of Your Credit Cards,” Money Matters Column, Yahoo Finance, Posted Thursday, September 22, 2005.  
    • William Falk, “Carbon Neutral” in The Week, Feb. 16, 2007, p. 5. 
  • Chapter Nine:  Evaluating
    • Manohla Dargis,  “To Ms. With Love:  A Teacher’s Heart Fords a Social Divide,”  The New York Times, January 5, 2007.
    • Robin Williams and John Tollett, “Evaluating a Website”  Written by the authors for this text.  Permission granted.
    • Image by Jamie Trueblood/Paramound Pictures.  Caption to picture:  “Ms. Swank plays Erin Gruwell in the film, which recounts Ms. Gruwell’s experience teaching at a high school in Long Beach, Calif.”
  • Chapter Ten:  Problem-Solving
    • Eric Schlosser, Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Wendell Berry, Winona LaDuke, Peter Singer, Vandana Shiva, and Jim Hightower,  from “One thing to Do About Food, a forum edited by Alice Waters, in The Nation, September 11. 2006. 
  • Chapter Eleven:  Arguing 
    • Dudley Devlin, “Immigration Reform in America”  [Permission not needed–I am the ghost author]
    • Ruben Navarrette, Jr., “Do Americans Really Want Jobs?”  The San Diego Union-Tribune, reprinted in The Denver Post, Feb 6, 2007.
    • Barry Newman, Employers Have a Lot to Lose, The Wall Street Journal, April 11, 2006
    • Khalil Bendib, “The Problem with Immigrants”  [Cartoon]
    • Bruce Finley, “Raid Leave Families Fractured, The Denver Post, December 14, 2006.
    • BBC News, “Viewpoints:  US Illegal Immigration”  23 May, 2006.
    • Tom Briscoe, Small World, “Who to Blame for Illegals”  [Cartoon]
    • SpeakOut.com,  “Immigration Forum, comments posted April, 2006.
    • Web Page Shot:  IllegalAliens.US
    • Web Page Shot:  United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
    • Photographs of Demonstrations 
Detailed list of NEW Visuals.
  • Chapter One:  Myths and Rituals 
    • Sipress, Cartoon  “Thank goodness you’re here”  New Yorker  Dec. 20, 2004 [Writing Myths]
  • Chapter Two:  Situations, Purposes, and Processes
    • Chapter Opening Art:  Mona Lisa Barn, Cornell Wisconsin, Layne Kennedy, Photographer, Corbis images.
  • Chapter Three:  Observing 
  • Chapter Four:  Remembering 
    • Images of Cesar Chavez, to go with “Cesar Chavez Saved my Life”:
  • Chapter Six:  Analyzing and Designing Visuals 
    • Chapter Opening Art, Analyzing Visuals.  Guillaume de Machaut, Le Remede de Fortune, “The Lover Sings as his Lady Dances, Plate 24, in Francois Avril, Manuscript Painting at the Court of France,  George Braziller, Inc.,  New York, 1978., p. 87. 
    • Dorothea Lange images, “Migrant Workers”
    • Join American Red Cross, Corbis images  
    • Jim Goldberg, USA, San Francisco, 1982.  “My Dream is to become a school teacher” 
    • Image of Michael J. Fox,  “congress”  www.sfgate.com/blogs  
    • Joe Rosenthal, “Marines Raising the Flag, Iwo Jima, 1945” 
    • World War II Posters:  Rosie the Riveter, She’s a WPW, Join the WAC Now
    • “Young man walks through water”  Associated Press, Aug 30, 2005; “Two Residents wade”  AFP/Getty Images, August 30, 2005. 
    • Col. Debrza Lewis Image. 
    • “Patriotism Means Silence,  Brad Roberts@ www.lowdiameter.com  
    • Thomas McKay and Jonathan Moreno, The Denver Post.  “Storing the power of the wind” 
    • Ralph Lauren Image
    • “Absolute End,” Adbusters.
    • “Big Mac Attack!” Adbusters.
    • Mankoff Cartoon, The New Yorker,  “This Week’s Contest”  December, 2006 -  Winning Caption, “Well, then, it’s unanimous.” 
    • Gordon Parks,  “American Gothic”
    • Alfred Eisenstaadt,  Soldier Kissing Woman, New York, 1945, Time Life Image 
    • Mueller, Cartoon, “I was Distracted for a moment.  Go on.”  The New Yorker.
    • Global Warming Images–see individual sources.
    • Cesar Chavez Images
    • Polykoff images. 
    • Bordo’s Images.
    • “Triple Self Portrait” 
    • “Out of the Picture”
    • “A hero’s Welcome”
  • Chapter Eleven:  Arguing 
    • Leo Cullum, Cartoon, “No one is making you do anything you don’t want.”  The New Yorker, May 9, 2005.  [Arguing]
    • Ziegler, cartoon, “You might want to save that for your blog.”  The New Yorker,  October 16, 2006

 


Table of Contents

Thematic Contents       

Preface          

Credits         

 

Chapter One: Writing Myths and Rituals                       

Writing Fitness:  Rituals and Practice                      

Place, Time, and Tools                 

Energy and Attitude                    

Keeping a Journal                      

Warming Up:  Journal Exercises                

“On Keeping a Journal” by Roy Hoffman               

 

Chapter Two: Situations, Purposes, and Processes for Writing   

Rhetorical Situations                                

Writer, Occasion, Purpose, Audience, Genre, Context           

Purposes for Writing                                

Writer-Based Purposes                           

Subject- and Audience-Based Purposes                

Combinations of Purposes                       

Subject, Purpose, and Thesis                   

Purpose and Audience                             

Audience Analysis                     

Purpose, Audience, and Genre                   

The Rhetorical Situation                           

Purpose, Audience, and Context in Two Essays                   

“The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl” by Elizabeth Wong              

“I’m OK, but You’re Not” by Robert Zoellner         

Dimensions of the Writing Process                         

Collecting, Shaping, Drafting, Revising                      

The Whole Process                    

Writing with a Computer                          

Warming Up:  Journal Exercises                

A Writing Process at Work:  Collecting and Shaping              

“Athletes and Education” by Neil H. Petrie             

“On Writing “Athletes and Education” by Neil H. Petrie          

A Writing Process at Work:  Drafting and Revising              

From “The Declaration of Independence”               

 

 

Chapter Three: Observing                   

Techniques for Writing About Observations            

Observing People                      

Observing Places                       

From “Sierra” by John Muir                     

Observing Objects                     

Warming Up: Journal Exercises                    

“Take This Fish and Look at It” by Samuel H. Scudder          

“Observing Wolves” by Farley Mowat                     

Observing: The Writing Process                

Choosing a Subject                     

Collecting, Shaping, Drafting, Revising                      

Peer Response                         

Postscript on the Writing Process                           

“Permanent Tracings” by Jennifer Macke               

“Empty Windows” by Stephen White                       

 

Chapter Four: Remembering                

Techniques for Writing About Memories                

Remembering People                               

Remembering Places                                

Remembering Events                               

Warming Up:  Journal Exercises                

“Lives on the Boundary” by Mike Rose                    

“Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” by Alice Walker              

“César Chávez Saved My Life” by Daniel “Nene” Alejandrez               

Remembering: The Writing Process                        

Choosing a Subject                     

Collecting, Shaping, Drafting, Revising                      

Peer Response                          

Postscript on the Writing Process                           

“The Wind Catcher” by Todd Petry                       

“The Red Chevy” by Juli Bovard                            

 

Chapter Five: Reading                         

Techniques for Writing about Reading                      

Critical Reading Strategies                       

Guidelines for Class Discussion                  

Summarizing and Responding to an Essay               

“Teach Diversity–with a Smile” by Barbara Ehrenreich        

Summarizing                              

Responding                               

Warming Up: Journal Exercises                  

“Letter to America” by Margaret Atwood              

“Vows” by Christopher Caldwell                           

“Responses to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change”         

Reading and Writing Processes                  

Choosing a Subject                     

“Teaching Tolerance in America” by Dudley Erskine Devlin     

Collecting, Shaping, Drafting, Revising                      

Avoiding Plagiarism                    

Peer Response                          

Postscript on the Writing Process                           

“Letter to Margaret Atwood” by Dean C. Swift                   

“Two Responses to Deborah Tannen”

     by Jennifer Koester and Sonja H. Browe                        

 

Chapter Six: Analyzing & Designing Visuals                  

Techniques for Analyzing Visuals                            

Analyzing Visuals with Text                      

Analyzing Visuals in Context                    

“Progress or Not” by Jonathan Alter                      

“Flag Raising on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945” by Joe Rosenthal       

“Who’s a Looter?” by Tania Ralli                           

Analyzing the Genre of the Visual                           

Rhetorical Appeals to the Audience                        

Designing Visuals                       

Techniques for Designing Visuals                            

Warming Up:  Journal Exercises                

“Miss Clairol’s ‘Does She . . . Or Doesn’t She?’: 

    How to Advertise a Dangerous Product” by James B. Twitchell      

“Never Just Pictures,” by Susan Bordo                    

Processes for Analyzing and Designing Visuals         

Choosing a Subject                     

Collecting, Shaping, Drafting, Revising                      

Analysis Focused on the Visual                  

“Triple Self-Portrait” by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner                   

Analysis Focused on the Social Context                 

“Out of the Picture on the Abortion Ban” by Ellen Goodman   

Analysis Focused on the Story                   

“Coming Home” by Carolyn Kleiner Butler             

Peer Response                          

Writing Process Postscript                          

“Some Don’t Like Their Blues at All” by Karyn M. Lewis                  

“Weight Loss 101 for the Adult Fitness Program” by Lawrence Fletcher           

 

Chapter Seven:  Investigating                         

Investigative Writing Techniques                      

Summary of a Book or Article                   

A Brief Report with Graphics                   

“Gimme An A (I Insist!)” by Abigail Sullivan Moore

Investigation Using Multiple Sources                      

“That Parent-Child Conversation Is Becoming Instant, and Online"

     by John Schwartz                               

Profile of a Person                     

“Rick Steves’s Not-So-Lonely Planet” by Sara Corbett        

Extended Interview                     

“Reading Statistical Tea Leaves” by Karen Arenson             

Warming Up: Journal Exercises                  

“Surfin’ the Louvre” by Elizabeth Larsen                

“Plotting a Net Gain” by Connie Koenenn              

“The End of Cheap Oil” by Tim Appenzeller            

“The Homeless and Their Children” by Jonathan Kozol          

Investigating:  The Writing Process                         

Choosing a Subject                     

Collecting, Shaping, Drafting, Revising                      

Community Service Learning                    

Research Tips                            

Doing Field Research                               

Peer Response                          

Postscript on the Writing Process                           

“The Hollywood Indian “ by Lauren Strain             

“My Friend, Michelle, An Alcoholic” by Bridgid Stone           

 

Chapter Eight:  Explaining                   

Techniques for Explaining                         

Explaining What                        

Explaining How                         

Explaining Why                            

Warming Up:  Journal Exercises                

“Multiracialness” by LaMer Stepptoe                       

“How to Take Control of Your Credit Cards” by Suze Orman             

“How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently”

     by Deborah Tannen                 

Explaining:  The Writing Process                            

Choosing a Subject                     

Collecting, Shaping, Drafting, Revising                      

Tips for Integrating Images                       

Peer Response                          

Postscript on the Writing Process                           

“English Only” by Christine Bishop                         

“Anorexia Nervosa” by Nancie Brosseau               

 

Chapter Nine: Evaluating                     

Techniques for Writing Evaluations                         

Evaluating Commercial Products or Services                        

“The Hybrid Grows Up,” Consumer Reports          

Evaluating Works of Art                          

Evaluating Performances                          

“Peter Jackson’s Sorcery” by Richard Alleva           

Warming Up: Journal Exercises                  

“Evaluating a Website” by Robin Williams and John Tollett     

“All’s Not Well in Land of  ‘The Lion King’” by Margaret Lazarus     

“Today’s Special” by David Sedaris                       

“Prime Time Art” by Kathyrn Hughes and Ben Rogers           

“Watching the Eyewitless News” by Elayne Rapping              

Evaluating:  The Writing Process                            

Choosing a Subject                     

Collecting, Shaping, Drafting, Revising                      

Peer Response                          

Postscript on the Writing Process                           

“Borrowers Can be Choosy” by Linda Meininger                 

“The Big Chill” by Kent Y’Blood                           

 

Chapter Ten: Problem Solving                           

Problem Solving Techniques                            

Demonstrating That a Problem Exists                       

Proposing a Solution and Convincing Your Readers             

Warming Up: Journal Exercises                  

“How to End Grade Inflation: 

     A Modest Proposal” by Michael Bérubé            

“Solving for Pattern” by Wendell Berry                    

“One Thing to Do About Food” by Eric Schlosser, Marion Nestle,

Michael Pollan, Troy Duster and Elizabeth Ransom, Peter Singer,

and Jim Hightower, edited by Alice Waters             

“The Argument Culture” by Deborah Tannen            

Problem Solving: The Writing Process                      

Choosing a Subject                     

Collecting, Shaping, Drafting, Revising                      

Peer Response                          

Postscript on the Writing Process                           

“No Parking” by Kristy Busch, Steve Krause, and Keith Wright         

“New Regulations and You” by Jessica Cook          

 

Chapter Eleven: Arguing                      

Techniques for Writing Argument                           

Claims for Written Argument                    

Appeals for Written Argument                   

Rogerian Argument                     

The Toulmin Method of Argument                          

Analyzing Statistics                     

Warming Up:  Journal Exercises                

“The Internet:  A Clear and Present Danger?” by Cathleen A. Cleaver  

“The Damnation of a Canyon” by Edward Abbey                 

“Death and Justice” by Edward I. Koch                 

Multi-Genre Casebook on Immigration Reform:

“Immigration Reform in America” by Dudley Erskine Devlin     

“Employers Have a Lot to Lose” by Barry Newman             

“Do Americans Really Want Jobs?” by Ruben Navarrette, Jr.               

“Raid Leaves Families Fractured” by Bruce Finley                

“Viewpoints:  US Illegal Immigration” from BBC News          

“Immigration Forum” in SpeakOut.com                    

Arguing:  The Writing Process                    

Choosing a Subject                     

Collecting, Shaping, Drafting, Revising                      

Peer Response                          

Revising Fallacies in Logic                        

Writing Process Postscript                          

“Welfare is Still Necessary for Women and

     Children in the U.S.” by Crystal Sabatke            

“Standardized Tests:  Shouldn’t We Be

     Helping Our Students?” by Eric Boese              

 

Chapter Twelve:  Responding to Literature                   

Responding to a Short Story                    

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin                 

Responding to a Poem                 

“Musée des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden             

Techniques for Responding to Literature                 

Warming Up: Journal Exercises                  

Purposes for Responding to Literature                      

Responding to Short Fiction                     

“A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty                           

“The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara                      

Responding to Poetry                              

Five Contemporary Poems                      

Responding to Literature: The Writing Process         

Collecting, Shaping, Drafting, Revising                      

Postscript on the Writing Process

“On ‘A Worn Path’” by Julia MacMillan and Brett MacFadden            

“Death:  The Final Freedom” by Pat Russell            

 

Chapter Thirteen: Writing a Research Paper                 

Techniques for Writing a Research Paper               

Using Purpose, Audience, and Genre as Guides                   

Finding the Best Sources                          

Critically Evaluating Your Sources                          

Using Sources to Make Your Point                        

Documenting Your Sources                     

Preparing Yourself for the Research Process                        

Warming Up: Journal Exercises                  

Research Notebook                                

Research Timetable                    

Documentation Format: MLA and APA Styles         

Research Paper: The Writing Process                     

Choosing a Subject                     

Collecting                                  

Internet Browsers and Search Engines                      

Evaluating Internet and Library Sources                    

Avoiding Plagiarism                    

Shaping                        

Drafting                        

Using Graphics                            

Revising                        

Documenting Sources:  MLA and APA                    

Postscript on the Writing Process                           

“Foreign Language Study:

     An American Necessity” by Kate McNerny         

 

Appendix:  Writing Under Pressure

Know Your Audience                              

Analyze Key Terms                    

Make a Sketch Outline                 

Know the Material                     

Practice Writing                         

Proofread and Edit                     

Sample Essay Questions and Responses                

 


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“I really like the way the writing process is explained, how everything the writer needs is there in every chapter.”

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“The Reid text strikes the right balance, and this is so helpful to beginning teachers. There is inspiration aplenty, but not so much to leave one feeling overwhelmed.”

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Stephen Reid is currently the Writing Program Administrator at Colorado State University, where he has taught for over 30 years. He regularly teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in writing, and he continues to teach contemporary fiction, 19th century British fiction, and non-fiction workshops. Current interests in composition include argument, visual literacy, teaching in online environments, testing and placement, and curriculum design. When he's not in the classroom, he's likely to be traveling, skiing, cycling, or flyfishing. He can be reached at his email address: Stephen.Reid@colostate.edu


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Stephen Reid is Composition Program Director at Colorado State University where he is responsible both for the curriculum and for training the many graduate teaching assistants. Based on his experiences with students and beginning instructors alike, Reid authored The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers. Since its first publication in 1989, this writing guide has stood out in the market because each chapter centers on a specific writing purpose and integrates techniques, writing process, and patterns of development within the context of the chapter. This innovative organization ends flipping back and forth within the text. Complemented by an annotated instructor’s edition, The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers is the perfect writing guide for learning–and learning to teach–purpose and process.

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