English Language Reference, Writing

The Confident Writer

Name: The Confident Writer
Author: Carol C. Kanar
ISBN: 9780618131143

by Carol C. Kanar

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Overview

The Confident Writer functions simultaneously as a rhetoric with readings, a research guide, and a handbook. Students receive extensive writing practice throughout the text in order to become confident writers capable of making effective choices during the writing process.

Unit I, The Writing Process, covers the essay, audience and purpose, the thesis statement, supporting details, the research paper, and strategies for every writing stage. In Unit II, Patterns as Options, Kanar introduces rhetorical patterns as organizational choices made to suit the intended purpose, audience, and thesis of a writing selection. Unit III, More Choices: A Collection of Readings, offers timely and culturally diverse essays. Unit IV, The Selective Writer, comprises a grammar handbook.

Computer and Internet-based writing activities appear throughout the text to strengthen students' writing and research skills.
Expanded coverage on patterns of development include updated guidance and new readings that emphasize the difference between division and classification.
Revised instructions and the inclusion of more advanced activities promote students' critical-thinking skills.