Short Guide to College Writing

One of the high-quality, low-priced entries in Longmans Penguin Academic Series, A Short Guide to College Writing is a clear, graceful, authoritative brief rhetoric focused on academic writing. Engagingly written by a well-known author team, A Short Guide to College Writing offers practical advice on writing college essays from the beginning of the process to the end. The student can turn to this book for advice about matters large and smallchoosing a topic, writing an analysis, constructing a paragraph, using and documenting sources, punctuating a quotation. Instructors can suggest chapters for students to consult in revising a draft, editing a revision, or preparing a final copy. Although discussion and examples of description and narration are included, the emphasis is on analysis, argument, and research. Students are taught the essential skills for effective college writingskills they will need when writing for a first-year composition course, or for an art history course or cultural studies seminar.Barnet, Sylvan is the author of 'Short Guide to College Writing', published 2004 under ISBN 9780321224699 and ISBN 0321224698.