Kurzbeschreibung
From Self to Sources focuses on helping students progress from writing essays to research papers--a critical step in both higher-level developmental and freshman composition courses.
Synopsis
From Self to Source is a comprehensive, developmental writing text that teaches writing in a concise, flexible, and systematic manner. Through working with practical exercises, students will reinforce and augment what they have previously learned about source-based writing. The book includes reading-related topics, professional topics and general topics for the students to write about. Students follow one or more examples from start to finish in each chapter so they can really see the progression of writing from idea to final product. As such Brandon is confident it will move students seamlessly from essays to the research paper. Features of this brand new text include: - Comprehensive coverage: The text offers writing instruction, reading selections by both student and professional writers, a handbook, and a research paper unit - Concise presentation: Clear, systematic textbook instruction. All stages of writing appear throughout the book demonstrating how more sophisticated assignments are conceived, developed, and written, from the essay to the research paper. - Includes a Self-evaluation chart, which will help identify and remedy fundamental problems in writing.
- Contains 43 professional essays, and 23 student essays - Offers an alternate thematic table of contents providing flexibility for instructors
