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An immediately and universally relevant subject, language is the ideal theme to explore in a composition course. Language Awareness collects contemporary and classic readings about language that not only make students more aware of its uses and more capable of analyzing its effects, but also help them to deploy language more effectively in their own writing.

This ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021). Models for Writers provides brief, compelling readings similar in length to the essays you’ll be assigned to write in college. Step-by-step advice for writing includes definition, compare and contrast, and more, with additional coverage of the elements of the essay, using sources, and research papers.

With Subject and Strategy, you get interesting readings, writing strategies that you can apply to any course, and confirmation of yourself as a writer.

The best-selling Models for Writers continues to offer thought-provoking readings organized to demonstrate not only the rhetorical patterns that students will use in their own essays but also the elements and language that will make those essays effective—important coverage you won’t find in other readers. Also unique to Models is its versatility and flexibility: it works in a wide range of courses and at various levels. This edition offers a number of new classroom activities that address professional and academic writing—getting students examining and practicing with the kinds of writing they will be doing in college and beyond. The new edition also includes helpful new strategies for developing a strong thesis statement, expanded coverage of logical fallacies, entirely new coverage of APA documentation, and online multimodal readings and tutorials on critical reading and other essential topics.

A compact, easy-to-use guide, The Writer's Brief Handbook offers clear definitions, helpful explanations, and up-to-the-minute research and reference tools--altogether the best concise yet comprehensive reference available for today's student writers. The Writer's Brief Handbook reflects the authors' 35-year collaboration in teaching and writing about writing. Using clear, non-technical language, The Writer's Brief Handbook has gained a reputation for being student-friendly, and the easy-to-use multiple access system provides four different ways for students to diagnose a problem and find an answer, making the text ideal as a stand-alone reference. At a time when both students and instructors are demanding more from their handbooks, The Writer's Brief Handbook delivers!