Steps in Composition

By Lynn Quitman Troyka, Jerrold Nudelman, John Edgar Wideman

Book Overview

This time-honored, comprehensive program for basic writers features a unique instructional format that combines the fundamentals of grammar, mechanics, rhetoric, vocabulary, and spelling, with contemporary topics of interest and participatory exercises that require readers to get fully involved by creating, changing, rewriting, or correcting. Using an integrated "whole language" approach and continual reinforcement of skills, this book caters to users intelligence and interests. KEY TOPICS It features instructional material on all nine modes of discourse--description, narration, exemplification, process, comparison and contrast, definition, cause and effect, classification, and argumentation. MARKET: For the development of writing skills and the creation of effective writing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131100696
• ISBN13: 9780131100695
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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I have taught comp. for several years, and -- through happy and not-so-happy experiences with textbooks -- have come to select this as my all-time favorite. Its 6th edition is familiar to me, and now I'm going on with the 7th. The only thing lacking in this book is a truly thorough introduction to the ins and outs of the persuasive essay.