WRT 1020: College Composition II: Books

Exploring College Writing: Reading, Writing and Researching across the Curriculum is a rhetoric for first-year and sophomore composition courses that uses a constructivist, ethnographic approach to introducing students to academic reading, writing, and researching. This text is especially useful to composition instructors who wish to provide students with both a general overview of academic discourse and an introduction to the purposes, audiences, and genres of writing across disciplines

Write Great Essays! remains the book of choice for students with essays to write, how to read selectively, how to take notes effectively, how to understand the 'academic speak' in essay questions, how to structure your work, and how to use and cite your sources accurately. The book clarifies all the key issues that students cite as blocks to the development of their writing skills and will help improve the grades of any student who takes the time to adopt the techniques offered.

The Psychologist's Companion is intended for students as well as young professionals and writers at all stages of their careers seeking inspiration and guidelines for better scientific writing.

Intended primarily for the research paper writing course in freshman composition, but also used extensively for research-based courses in other disciplines such as sociology, history, and political science.

This practical, research-informed text will provide students across all disciplines with models, tasks and activities to enable them to plan, action, write and present quality research. It will help develop ideas, creative thinking and systematic research practices to enable students to produce high quality dissertations and reports.

The definitive research paper guide, Writing Research Papers combines a traditional and practical approach to the research process with the latest information on electronic research and presentation. It takes the reader from the selection and narrowing of a topic, through research, note taking, planning, drafting, revising, to preparation of the finished document.

The staff of the Yale Daily News has created a practical and effective guide to writing better college papers. With step-by-step advice from professors, writing experts, and successful students, this powerful tool guides you through every aspect of the writing process. From blank page to final draft, the Yale Daily News Guide to Writing College Papers will help you write distinctive and creative papers that get you noticed.