Write It: A Process Approach to College Essays with Readings

About this book

Recently Revised Seventh Edition Now Available! Write It: A Process Approach to College Essays with Readings focuses on the academic essay and its conventions. It contains activities that directly involve students in reading critically generating ideas on a topic developing a thesis statement finding and using evidence to support that thesis and revising their work for coherence and clarity. Each chapter works to give students a solid foundation for understanding and using the writing process effectively. A series of interactive writing exercises engage students at every stage of the process and give the text a predictable structure that allows students to measure progress. Each unit presents a reading selection that puts forward an argument on a particular topic followed by a writing topic that requires students to respond with their own position. Each unit also includes a group of reading selections on the units topic. These supplemental reading selections offer students multiple points of view and foster in-depth thinking that in turn lead to more complex interesting student essays.