Writing & Rhetoric: Books in the CEI Library

The newest edition of this valuable tool offers students easy-to-understand guidance on going beyond Google to find, evaluate, and use quality informational sources that will enable them to write better research papers.

When you have a question while you're writing, this book is designed to offer quick, practical advice in language you can understand and in a format that's easy to use. Here you'll find answers to questions about writing, research, and grammar.

A Writer's Resource helps writers identify the fundamental elements of any writing situation--from academic assignments to blog and social media posts--and teaches innovative, transferable strategies that build confidence for composing across various genres, media, and the academic curriculum. With its numerous examples from a rich cross-section of disciplines, A Writer's Resource foregrounds the transfer of skills learned in the writing course to demonstrate that every major, every field of study, and every potential career path depends on written communication.

Intuitive organization, color-coding, and jargon-free instruction for common kinds of writing make this a reference tool that student writers truly use. This edition includes new advice for conducting research as it's done online today, new student model essays, and a new chapter on writing summary/response essays.

The Mad Scientist's Guide covers the kinds of writing most often required on college campuses, while also addressing important steps and activities frequently overlooked in composition guides, such as revision and peer reviewing. Actual examples of student writing are included throughout, as are helpful reminders and tips to help students polish their skills. First and foremost, the Mad Scientist's Guide seeks to make writing fun.

This book provides a foundation and framework to enhance your understanding of the various processes involved in academic writing. The term, academic writing, here refers to the types of writing used in college level writing courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. However, this book was not written simply to help you pass another English class or to get you through the next writing intensive course (although it will certainly do that). At some point you will be out in the real world. Thus, the purpose of this book is to enable you to be an effective writer and thinker in all contexts including your personal and professional lives.

The main goal of this book is to provide students with a set of robust, integrated critical concepts and processes that will allow them to think through a topic and then write about it, and to do so in a way that is built on, and permeated by, substantive critical thinking.

Taking a unique approach to building your writing skills, Understanding Rhetoric is the one-and-only composition comic book.

The Informed Argument treats argument as a vehicle whose value goes beyond showing students how to win a debate to helping them discover truth and solve problems. This book contains chapters on understanding rhetoric and logical fallacies, composing arguments, doing research and citing sources.

Everyone's an Author builds confidence by showing students they already know how to make good rhetorical choices in their daily lives and by offering writing advice for growing those skills as students, professionals, and citizens. By understanding rhetoric, students bridge the gap between the writing they already do--online, at home, in their communities--and the writing they'll do in college and beyond. And it's a book for all students, providing examples, readings, and advice that everyone will see themselves in. The Fourth Edition extends the book's inclusive, rhetoric-focused message with new chapters on reflection; language, power, and rhetoric; and writing for a public audience--and a new suite of teaching tools that inspire and empower instructors as well.

Grounded in the best practices of effective writing instruction, Joining the Conversation's rhetorical approach teaches students the key critical thinking skills they need to explore and respond thoughtfully to the complex conversations around them. From reflective and informative to analytical and persuasive writing, chapters follow real student writers as they find a conversation, develop, revise, and document their writing. Joining the Conversation empowers students to make informed decisions about every aspect of their writing process.

Writing and revision are two different skills. Many scholar-writers have learned something about how to write, but fewer know how to read and revise their own writing, spot editorial issues, and transform a draft from passable to great. Drawing on before and after examples from more than a decade as a developmental editor of scholarly works, Pamela Haag tackles the most common challenges of scholarly writing. This book is packed with practical, user-friendly advice and is written with warmth, humor, sympathy, and flair.

The ninth edition of the MLA Handbook is a textbook and reference guide that offers student writers and writing instructors guidance on creating works-cited-list entries in MLA style using the template of core elements. It features advice on punctuation, grammar, inclusive language, formatting research papers, and in-text citations. It also includes an appendix of sample works-cited-list entries, illustrations, and an index.

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the official source for APA Style. Known for its authoritative, easy-to-use reference and citation system, the Publication Manual also offers guidance on choosing the headings, tables, figures, language, and tone that will result in powerful, concise, and elegant scholarly communication. It guides users through the scholarly writing process--from the ethics of authorship to reporting research through publication.

This book demystifies academic writing and shows how to engage with the views of others. Extensively revised in response to feedback from its community of adopters, this edition of They Say / I Say is an even more practical companion for students, featuring a new chapter on researching conversations, new exercises, expanded support for reading, and an expanded chapter on revising. By focusing on the rhetorical moves found in all disciplines, They Say helps students master the ins and outs of argumentative writing in accessible language and with examples students can apply throughout their college career.