Writing Matters: A Handbook for Writing and Research (Comprehensive Edition with Exercises)

About this book

This Comprehensive version of Writing Matters unites research reasoning documentation grammar and style into a cohesive whole helping students see the conventions of writing as a network of responsibilities writers have to other writers. Writing Matters emphasizes the responsibility writers share whether collaborating online in peer review or conducting research with digital and print sources to treat information fairly and accurately and to craft writing that is unique and originaltheir own! to the audience. Writing Matters emphasizes the need to use conventions appropriate to the readership to write clearly and to provide readers with the information and interpretation they need to make sense of a topic. to the topic. Writing Matters encourages writers to explore a topic thoroughly and creatively to assess sources carefully and to provide reliable information at a depth that does the topic justice. to themselves. Writing Matters encourages writers to take their writing seriously and to approach writing tasks as an opportunity to learn about a topic and to expand their scope as writers. Students are more likely to write well when they think of themselves as writers rather than as error-makers.