Models for Writers: Short Essays for Composition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312153104 ISBN 13: 9780312153106

Publisher: Bedford/st Martins, 1997

Synopsis

It’s a simple, best-selling combination that has worked for thousands of students — short, accessible essays and helpful, thorough writing instruction. Models for Writers continues to offer thought-provoking selections organized to demonstrate not only the rhetorical patterns that students will use in their own essays but also the elements and language that will make those essays effective. This edition offers more coverage of the key elements of academic writing, including new strategies for writing a research paper and a section on writing a reflective essay. Read the preface.

About this title

About the Author:

ALFRED ROSA and PAUL ESCHHOLZ are professors emeriti of English at the University of Vermont. They have directed statewide writing programs and conducted numerous workshops throughout the country on writing and the teaching of writing. Rosa and Eschholz have collaborated on a number of best-selling texts for Bedford/St. Martin's, including Subjects/Strategies, Tenth Edition (2005); Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers, Fourth Edition (1995); with Virginia Clark, Language Awareness, Ninth Edition (2005); and, with Virginia Clark and Beth Simon, Language: Readings in Language and Culture, Seventh Edition (2007).

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0312153104
• ISBN 13: 9780312153106
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 556
• Editor: Rosa Alfred, Eschholz Paul A.