Essay Essentials With Readings

Known for its straightforward and practical approach, Essay Essentials with Readings, Sixth Edition, continues to provide students with the guidance they need to become better writers. While the book focuses on essay writing techniques and different patterns of essay development, the authors recognize that the inclusion of readings, information on research papers, and a review of the basics provides students with a complete overview of the writing process. Available to be bundled with the new edition is our online program, ?Nelson A la Carte for Essay Essentials.? Tailored to match the textbook, this online program provides support and remediation for grammar and English mechanics in a self-paced environment.

Known for its straightforward and practical approach, Essay Essentials with Readings, Enhanced Sixth Edition, continues to provide students with the guidance they need to become better writers. While the book focuses on essay writing techniques and different patterns of essay development, the authors recognize that the inclusion of readings, information on research papers, and a review of the basics provides students with a complete overview of the writing process. New to this enhanced edition is MindTap, a fully online learning solution. Offering personalized paths of dynamic assignments and applications, MindTap is a digital learning solution that turns cookie-cutter into cutting-edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers. MindTap enables students to analyze and apply chapter concepts within relevant assignments, and allows instructors to measure skills and promote better outcomes with ease. Instructors personalize the experience by customizing the presentation of these learning tools to their students, even seamlessly introducing their own content into the Learning Path.

Full of tips, examples, and exercises, Essay Essentials with Readings 4e takes a straightforward, practical approach to writing by emphasizing the key writing steps (planning, drafting, revising, editing) and how to apply them to essay composition. Interspersed readings appeal to students while illustrating the various rhetorical modes. While the focus of this text is on essay writing skills and techniques, the fourth edition also contains a review of sentence-level composition.