How to Write Anything with 2016 MLA Update: A Guide and Reference

by John J. Ruszkiewicz, Jay T. Dolmage

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Instructors at hundreds of colleges and universities have turned to How to Write Anything for clear, focused writing advice that gives students just what they need, when they need it. And students love it—because John Ruszkiewicz’s tone makes writing in any genre approachable, with a flexible, rhetorical framework for a range of common academic and real-world genres, and a reference with extra support for writing, research, design, style, and grammar. The new edition is accompanied and enhanced by LaunchPad for How to Write Anything, an online course space of pre-built units featuring the full e-text, multimodal readings, and adaptive LearningCurve activities to help students hone their understanding of reading and writing. The new edition also gives students more support for writing portfolios, more help working with the concept of genre, and more emphasis on critical reading and writing—all essential to academic success. And you’ll find more teaching ideas and syllabi from the community of teachers led by coauthor Jay Dolmage. The result is everything you need to teach composition in a flexible and highly visual guide, reference, and reader.

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Genres: Writing, School, Reference, Nonfiction, College

672 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2008

Reviews

[vi paola · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was for school and it really helped with my writing skills.

[Emily Houvener]

This will stay on my currently-reading shelf through the semester. It's the chosen text for the 101 classes I'm teaching. So far, I'm finding it to be a helpful little text. The Instructor's Manual is dream of book, filled with exciting activities to try to get students out of their academic stupor.

[Kyra Horton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read excerpts for my composition two college course. Was well written and easy to follow!

[Phillip · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've taught out of a decent number of composition/rhetoric books in my time, and this is probably my favorite. The authors do a good job clearly and effectively presenting concepts--at least on a basic level--in such a way that students can easily follow. Their use of images is effective, including both pictures, and graphic guides to help with things like paper structure or setting up MLA citations. Some of the humor is a bit corny and some of the references try too hard to be hip, but one should expect that from a composition textbook, it's part of the charm.

[Rachael · Rating 4 out of 5]

I used this text for a college composition course and HIGHLY recommend it. It is user-friendly, easy-to-read and good for college students, especially those who are not inclined to write. I have an additional copy of the 2nd edition I'm willing to sell. If interested, please email me at given2fly1981@yahoo.com

[Romantic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstanding resource material for anyone interested in enhancing their writing skills and especially useful for writing college level papers.