NOTE This edition features the same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf version. Books a la Carte also offer a great value; this format costs significantly less than a new textbook. Effective writing skills for students of all majors and interests One of the best-selling interdisciplinary composition texts for over twenty-five years, "Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum" " Books a la Carte, MLA Update Edition,13/e " guides students through the essential college-level writing skills of summary, critique, synthesis, and analysis. The book is divided into three parts. Part one, Structures and Strategies, takes students step-by-step through the process of writing papers based on source material, explaining and demonstrating how summaries, critiques, syntheses, and analyses can be generated from the kinds of readings students will encounter later in the book and throughout their academic careers. Part two, Brief Takes, bridges the gap between writing instruction and readings with a series of step-by-step exercises. The anthology in part three provides a wide range of carefully selected, cross-disciplinary readings, including two new chapters on rumor and advertising. Topics are both engaging and teachable, and students will appreciate how these topics correspond to their courses in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences."
Writing and Reading Across Curriculum
Intended for use by college and university educators, this book contains theoretical ideas and practical activities designed to enhance and promote writing across the curriculum programs. Topics discussed in the...
New features in this second edition include: - internet websites that can be used to teach writing (e.g., wiki's, weblogs, and digital storytelling) - examples from grades 4-8 classrooms that show how science, social studies, health, and ...
Highly acclaimed author Heidi Hayes Jacobs shows teachers – at very grade level and in every subject area -- how to integrate the teaching of literacy skills into their daily curriculum.
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Remaining one of the best-selling interdisciplinary composition texts for over twenty-five years, "Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum" helps readers of all majors and interests learn to write effectively for college.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Everything's an argument with readings ( 5th ed . ) . Boston , MA : Bedford / St . Martin's . Lutzker , M. ( 1995 ) . What writing - across - the - curriculum instructors can learn from librarians . In J. Sheridan ( Ed . ) , Writing ...
"In this book you'll find strategic advice for planning thematic, content-driven units that use reading aloud to scaffold understanding and increase engagement.
The 13th Edition is divided into three parts.