Creating compositions - Hardcover

Harvey S. Wiener

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070701466 ISBN 13: 9780070701465

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1973

Synopsis

Condensed and reorganized to increase manageability and flexibility, this successful developmental writing worktext offers a wide variety of writing topics in a new rhetorical organization. Reading selections and writing assignments are designed to emphasize critical thinking and analytical writing.

About this title

About the Author:

Harvey S. Wiener is currently affiliated with Marymount Manhattan College after serving as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Adelphi University. Previously University Dean for Academic Affairs, the City University of New York, he was founding president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. Dr. Wiener is the author of many books on reading and writing for college students and their teachers, including The Writing Room (Oxford, 1981). He is co-author of The McGraw-Hill College Handbook, a reference grammar and rhetoric text. Dr. Wiener has chaired the Teaching of Writing Division of the Modern Language Association (1987). He has taught writing at every level of education from elementary school to graduate school. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brooklyn College, he holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance literature. Dr. Wiener has won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, and the Exxon Education Foundation.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0070701466
• ISBN 13: 9780070701465
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 494