Focus on Writing by Laurie Mcmillan

Focus on Writing by Laurie Mcmillan

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Focus on Writing by Laurie Mcmillan

This first-year composition rhetoric-reader uses a Writing about Writing (WAW) approach and a conversational style to help students engage in threshold concepts and transfer what they know about writing to new situations. Each chapter asks a key question such as "Why Write?" or "What Is the Rhetorical Situation and Why Should I Care about It?" Preliminary answers to the chapter question are provided in accessible prose, and these initial ideas are supplemented with a selection of three or four readings and a list of recommended online texts.

Prompts for informal and formal writing projects keep the focus on writing and help students apply writing studies scholarship to their own lives in meaningful ways.

A companion website includes recommended WAW resources, assignment supports, and links to additional readings: sites.broadviewpress.com/focusonwriting

Laurie McMillan is a wife, a mom, a Yaya, inventor, and lifelong meditator. Laurie started developing The Sleep Switch when her children were young and needed help drifting off to sleep.
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ISBN 13 9781554813889
ISBN 10 1554813883
Title Focus on Writing
Author Laurie Mcmillan
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Broadview Press Ltd
Year published 2018-11-30
Number of pages 382
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.