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College Writing: A Personal Approach to Academic Writing
Author:Toby Fulwiler
Language:English
Edition:3
Product Description
Writingis a varied critical and imaginative process, not a rigid adherence toa set of conventions. Based on that premise, the third edition ofCollege Writing, like its previous editions, continually exhortsstudents to find and celebrate their own voices. In fact, it is thisaffirmation of individual creativity that sets College Writing apartfrom other process-oriented rhetorics.Lively and conversational intone, the third edition boasts a writer-to-writer perspective that willput students at ease. College Writing walks students through the mainelements of writing, from discovery and research to revising andediting. At the same time, author Toby Fulwiler allows for many detoursin his step-by-step approach, with frequent reminders that everyone'sprocesses are unique and that establishing and maintaining a personalvoice can be achieved while meeting conventional academicexpectations.Fulwiler examines the different, yet overlapping stages ofwriting. He addresses rhetorical issues of audience, purpose, andvoice, as well as the details of field, library, and Internet research,with particular attention to evaluating sources. He also offers thesenew features to keep students and teachers up to date:
new Web-based research information the most recent MLA guidelines increased coverage of visual elements of texts more on approaches to writing "alternative" pieces a look at the role of creative nonfiction in an academicsettingWith frequent examples of the best of undergraduate writing forinspiration, the inclusion of student statements about their writingproblems for reassurance, and appended guides to portfolios,punctuation, and publishing for reference, College Writing, ThirdEdition, is a student's best companion for starting the writing processright. Since 1983, Toby Fulwiler has directed the writing program atthe University of Vermont, where he teaches writing and literaturecourses. Author of Teaching with Writing (1987) and coauthor of TheLetter Book (2000), both published by Boynton/Cook, he has alsocoedited numerous publications, including When Writing Teachers TeachLiterature: Bringing Writing to Reading (1996), Programs That Work:Models and Methods for Writing Across the Curriculum (1990), and TheJournal Book (1987), all published by Boynton/Cook.
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