The McGraw-Hill Guide: Writing for College, Writing for Life

by Duane Roen, Gregory R. Glau, Barry M. Maid

The McGraw-Hill Guide to Writing is designed to help students learn to write more effectively not only in their college courses but also in their professional, civic, and personal lives. Combining a flexible reader, rhetoric, research guide, and handbook, The McGraw-Hill Guide shows students how to set goals for their writing, to use effective composing strategies to reach those goals, and to assess their progress toward achieving them. Based on the idea that effective writers are strong communicators in any context, The McGraw-Hill Guide to Writing emphasizes the skills established by the Writing Program Administrator's Outcomes Statement that form the foundation of assessment practices at writing programs throughout the country -- rhetorical knowledge, critical thinking, writing processes, and conventions. These skills form the basis of the instruction in each assignment chapter and throughout the text.

Genres: Reference, Writing, Textbooks

1152 pages, Hardcover

First published January 8, 2008

Reviews

[Steph · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is yet another book that was necessary for college (they always make you purchase so many!). I will say that it did help me to hone my writing skills that were necessary to receive high marks in all of my classes going forward. Showing proper documentation was always my weakest point, and this book showed me how to do so properly in a way that was easy for me to understand.

[damagedways · Rating 1 out of 5]

Literally the most boring text book I’ve ever read.