Joining The Conversation A Student S Companion To Joining The Conversation

This new supplement supports students taking a co-requisite or ALP course alongside first-year composition. Authored by Elizabeth Catanese (Community College of Philadelphia), this supplement offers thorough support for students in ALP/co-requisite courses. The text includes coverage of college success strategies; activities to help students develop thoughtful, college-level essays; and additional practice in correcting writing problems, from revising topic sentences and developing paragraphs to correcting fragments.

A Student’s Companion to In Conversation helps writers make the most of their handbook and their composition course. Its practical workbook format and attention to key topics taught in the course make it a useful tool for boosting student performance. Part 1 includes common college success strategies such as time management. Part 2 covers topics common to first-year composition such as essay development, active reading, audience awareness, peer review, revision, and working with sources. Part 3 includes 16 graphic organizers that help more visually-oriented students plan and organize different types of writing. And Part 4 includes exercises in sentence-level topics including parallelism, subject-verb agreement, fragments, using commas and quotation marks, and more. Offering more than 60 exercises and dozens of activities to engage students in the work of the course, A Student’s Companion to In Conversation helps new academic writers get and stay on-level.

With the success of The Bedford Researcher, Mike Palmquist has earned a devoted following of teachers and students who appreciate his accessible approach to the process of inquiry-based writing. Now he brings his proven methodology and friendly tone to Joining the Conversation. While students may know how to send text messages, search for images, and read the news online all at the same time, they don’t necessarily know how to juggle the skills they need to engage readers and compose a meaningful contribution to an academic conversation. Meeting students where they are — working online and collaboratively — Joining the Conversation embraces the new realities of writing, without sacrificing the support that students need as they write for college and beyond.

Grounded in the best practices of effective writing instruction, Joining the Conversation's rhetorical approach builds an awareness of writing purposes and genres as it teaches students to read critically, research effectively, and respond thoughtfully to the conversations around them. Comprehensive assignment chapters span reflective, informative, analytical and persuasive writing, following real students throughout their writing processes.Supportive apparatus guides writers from finding a conversation to join all the way through documenting their essays. Throughout the text, with techno-literate practice at the fore, multimodality is always an option and the conversation metaphor empowers students to make their voices heard--with their peers, in academic communities, and in the world. Based on reviewer feedback, the third edition of Joining the Conversation offers a new opening chapter on understanding yourself as a writer, more substantial academic readings on compelling subjects that matter to students, and an expanded digital option in Launchpad for Joining the Conversation. With theory put into practice, Joining the Conversation exemplifies the best of what writing instruction should be.

THE STUDENT’S COMPANION TO THE THEOLOGIANS

This ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021). Grounded in the best practices of effective writing instruction, Joining the Conversation’s rhetorical approach teaches students the key critical thinking skills they will draw on as they begin 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. Thoroughly revised, the fourth edition includes new student projects and more support for academic reading, critical thinking, and assessing credibility and bias.

Joining the conversation provides key critical thinking skills to navigate today’s complex conversations. Supportive apparatus illuminates each stage of the writing process and empowers writers to make their voices heard—with peers, in academic communities, and throughout the world. -- back cover