The Curious Writer

by Bruce Ballenger

The Curious Writer by Bruce Ballenger is an assignment-oriented, all-in-one rhetoric-reader-handbook that stresses the connections between personal and academic writing.

Hardcover

First published June 30, 2008

Reviews

[Erin McDonnell-Jones]

Used this title in Composition I and II for undergraduates, and it's a good introduction to collegiate writing. It gradually builds to the formal research essay and the type of writing that will be expected of them at this level. It also pairs with Pearson Online "My Writing Lab" which creates weekly exercises for the students. Good for using with lower skill sets, but students with higher skill sets will find the work a bit mundane.

[Thomas]

I love the essay structures taught in this book, from the profile to the proposal to my favorite of all, the ethnography. Still, the essays Ballenger includes in his superior The Curious Researcher have greater depth and interest for students, so I ended up heavily supplementing this text last semester in freshman composition.