Successful College Writing, Brief Edition with 2016 MLA Update / Edition 6

by Kathleen T. McWhorter

Overview

THIS TITLE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATES! Our editorial team has updated this text based on content from The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN.

Kathleen T. McWhorter’s unique visual approach, with support for both reading and writing, helps students at any level of preparedness become successful college writers. The sixth edition of Successful College Writing builds on its beloved, proven visual tools, such as graphic organizers, flowcharts, and new graphic Guided Writing Assignments, with engaging professional, multimedia, and student readings in the most commonly assigned rhetorical modes. In response to instructor and student feedback, the new edition has been thoughtfully streamlined and redesigned.

The new edition is enhanced by LaunchPad for Successful College Writing, an online course space of pre-built units featuring adaptive LearningCurve activities that help students hone their understanding of reading and writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781319087753
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	08/09/2016
Edition description:	Sixth Edition
Pages:	800
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Kathleen T. McWhorter is professor emerita of humanities and former director of the Learning Skills Center at Niagara County Community College. She has also been on the faculty of the State University College at Buffalo. She is the author of a number of books on reading and writing skills for developmental and freshmen-level  students, including Expressways: Writing Scenarios, Paragraphs  and Essays, Second Edition ( 2009); Pathways:  Writing Scenarios, Sentences to Paragraphs, Second Edition ( 2010);  The Writer’s Selections, Fifth Edition (2008); Academic Reading, Seventh Edition (2010); Efficient and Flexible Reading, Ninth  Edition (2011); Active Reading Skills, Second Edition (2008); and Reading Across the Disciplines: College Reading And Beyond, Fourth Edition (2009). She has also authored a composition reader, Seeing the Pattern: Readings for Successful Writing (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006) and coauthored, with Jane Aaron, The Successful Writer’s Handbook (2009).

Table of Contents

Streamlined and more visual than ever. Widely beloved for its success in reaching all student writers, Successful College Writing has been revised for this sixth edition to meet the evolving needs of students and instructors, resulting in a leaner, more visual book that is scannable and easier for all students to use.

• Scannable and direct. In keeping with instructor needs and student practices, Kathleen McWhorter has strategically edited this book to make the instructional content even easier to absorb, with more direct prose, more scannable lists, and more highlighting and annotating to help students glean what’s important at a glance.

• More visual, easier-to-use Guided Writing Assignments. The new Guided Writing Assignments walk students step by step through the writing process, with activities they can use to enrich their writing. Users who already love the graphic organizers and the revision flowcharts will love these graphic Guided Writing Assignments!

More reading and writing, right from the beginning. Chapter 1 now includes "The New Marshmallow Test: Students Can’t Resist Multitasking" (Annie Murphy Paul), a reading selection that addresses a key habit holding students back at all levels. The text also offers even more on synthesis and critical thinking, with a revised Chapter 3 that guides students from reading to writing and new coverage in Part 5 on constructing a synthesis chart.

More engaging and pertinent reading selections—such as "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other" (Sherry Turkle), "The Language of Junk Food Addiction" (Michael Moss), and "How Labels Like ‘Black’ and ‘Working Class’ Shape Your Identity" (Adam Alter)—engage students and challenge them to read critically and thoughtfully. The text also includes 5 new student essays on such topics as a Mexican student’s experience of "being double" and privacy in a surveillance culture.

Get the most out of your course with LaunchPad. LaunchPad combines an interactive e-book with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. Pre-built, curated units are easy to assign or adapt with your own material, such as readings, videos, quizzes, discussion groups, and more. LaunchPad also provides access to a gradebook that provide a clear window on performance for your whole class, for individual students, and for individual assignments. While a streamlined interface helps students focus on what’s due next, social commenting tools let them engage, make connections, and learn from each other. Use LaunchPad on its own or integrate it with your school’s learning management system so your class is always on the same page.　 Contact your rep to make sure you have access.