Successful college writing, Eighth edition - Kathleen T. McWhorter 2020

Successful college writing, Eighth edition - Kathleen T. McWhorter 2020

Preface for teachers

Acknowledgments

An introduction to reading, writing, and learning in college

Reading and writing for college success

Active reading and responding

Thinking, reading, and writing critically

Strategies for writing essays

Prewriting

Developing and supporting a thesis

Writing effective paragraphs

Drafting an essay

Revising content and organization

Editing sentences and words

Patterns of development

An introduction to patterns of development

Narration

Description

Illustration

Process analysis

Comparison and contrast

Classification and division

Definition

Cause and effect

Reading and writing arguments

Reading arguments

Writing arguments

Writing with sources

Planning a research project and evaluating sources

Finding sources, taking notes, and synthesizing ideas

Drafting, revising, and formatting a research project

Academic and business applications

Reading and writing about literature

Essay examinations and portfolios

Multimedia presentations and business writing

Handbook: writing problems and how to correct them

Answers to even-numbered exercises in the handbook

Acknowledgments