Wordsmith

Description

For courses in developmental writing.

Inspire students to craft clear, concise, and engaging writing

Briefer and more accessible than full-length texts, Wordsmith: A Guide to Paragraphs and Short Essays is the antidote to dry, overwrought, and overly expansive writing guides. It engages students, serves multiple skill levels, and teaches enduring writing techniques in a way that’s actionable, contemporary, hands-on, and fun.

 

The 7th Edition is a powerful tool for students and teachers alike. With appealing, topical readings and expanded writing exercises, the updated text empowers instructors to meet students where they are and engage their collective interests. A three-part layout allows the freedom to mix and match the writing chapters, grammar chapters, and readings. Pam Arlov’s structured, yet flexible, approach to writing encourages clarity and creativity. Her direct, conversational, student-friendly tone is used throughout, with light-hearted chapter openers that promote a positive and playful way of learning.

 

The loose-leaf version of the text is also available with MyLab Writing

MyLab™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. When students enter your developmental writing course with varying skill levels, MyLab can help you identify which students need extra support and provide them targeted practice and instruction outside of class. Learn more about MyLab Writing.

 

 

 

Hallmark features of this title

• Integrates real-world examples and delivers concepts in a direct, conversational way that engages students in learning.
• Helps students become quicker, more fluid writers building confidence through “Small Scrawls” writing practice in each of the modes chapters (accompanied by visual cues in Ch. 7-9).
• Presents material in a flexible 3-part layout that enables mixing and matching the writing chapters, grammar chapters, and readings.
• Groups rhetorical modes together based on actual usage, mirroring realistic writing strategies.
• Argument coverage includes discussion of ethos, pathos, logos (and identifying flawed arguments).
• A Word Choice chapter covers more informal writing for the Internet and texting and updated MLA/APA style guidelines are included.
• Free download: The Pearson Guide to the 2021 MLA Handbook.

New and updated features of this title

Brief, readable and actionable content

• UPDATED: Content has been enhanced (exercises, images, assignments, model essays, Grammar Alert! boxes, and chapter openers) to keep material current and engaging.
• NEW: Streamlined explanations and examples throughout (particularly in the subject-verb agreement chapter and 2 pronoun chapters), enhance clarity without sacrificing coverage.
• NEW: Includes 5 new essays: “Surrender at Appomattox” by Ulysses S. Grant; Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Warning: This Is a Rights-Free Workplace”; “Crossing Invisible Lines” by Eugenia Vela; Mark Twain’s “Two Ways of Seeing a River”; and “Simplicity,” an essay on ridding writing of clutter by William Zinsser.

Thoughtfully organized for structure and flexibility

• NEW: Additional paragraph-style editing exercises have been added where students are most likely to need extra practice (e.g., subject-verb agreement; coordination and subordination; run-on sentences; sentence fragments; pronoun agreement, reference, and point of view).

Handy, in-text, up-to-date information

• NEW: Writing Summary Reports (Ch. 11) contains all of this edition’s coverage on incorporating quotes into college essays. This reorganization is based on college writing’s focus on quotations in the context of research (rather than as dialogue).

For courses in developmental writing.

 

Inspire students to craft clear, concise, and engaging writing

Briefer and more accessible than full-length texts, Wordsmith: A Guide to Paragraphs and Short Essays is the antidote to dry, overwrought, and overly expansive writing guides. It engages students, serves multiple skill levels, and teaches enduring writing techniques in a way that’s actionable, contemporary, hands-on, and fun.

 

The 7th Edition is a powerful tool for students and teachers alike. With appealing, topical readings and expanded writing exercises, the updated text empowers instructors to meet students where they are and engage their collective interests. A three-part layout allows the freedom to mix and match the writing chapters, grammar chapters, and readings. Pam Arlov’s structured, yet flexible, approach to writing encourages clarity and creativity. Her direct, conversational, student-friendly tone is used throughout, with light-hearted chapter openers that promote a positive and playful way of learning.

 

The loose-leaf version of the text is also available with MyLab Writing

MyLab™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. When students enter your developmental writing course with varying skill levels, MyLab can help you identify which students need extra support and provide them targeted practice and instruction outside of class.

Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab Writing does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab Writing, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

 

If you would like to purchase both the loose-leaf version of the text and MyLab Writing, search for:

0134984420 / 9780134984421 Wordsmith: A Guide to Paragraphs & Short Essays, Books a la Carte Plus MyLab Writing — Access Card Package, 7/E

 

Package consists of:

• 0134771524 / 9780134771526 Wordsmith: A Guide to Paragraphs & Short Essays, Books a la Carte Edition
• 0134807979 / 9780134807973 MyLab Writing with Pearson eText — Access Card — for Wordsmith: A Guide to Paragraphs and Short Essays