Cengage Guide to Research


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Help students develop the research skills they need for success in academic, career, and everyday situations with THE CENGAGE GUIDE TO RESEARCH, 3rd Edition. Recognizing that technology is a part of daily life, the authors show students how to apply the research skills they use every day (buying a car or choosing a cell phone plan, for example) to academic and professional settings. Annotated student samples, research scenarios, and Techno Tips illustrate the how and why of researching and engage students with key research technologies important to success. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.




The Writer's Way


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Leading students step by step through the writing process, from pre-writing to the final draft, this text is based upon the theory that people learn best by doing the whole thing to be learned and doing it often, surrounded by examples and in a context that offers immediate personal rewards. It focuses on personal motivation, interaction with other writers, and revision, and includes 47 student papers which serve as models for skills such as abstracting, revising and peer editing.




The Writer's Way


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Based on a whole language approach, THE WRITER'S WAY is a dynamic, process-centered paperback rhetoric with readings. This text recognizes that students learn best by doing, and writers learn best when inspired by compelling reasons to write, aided by strong examples, and reinforced by immediate personal rewards. With frank advice offered in a supportive, encouraging tone, Rawlins and Metzger lead students step by step through the writing process, from pre-writing to polishing the final draft. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.




Compact Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing (with 2021 MLA Update Card)


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Learn how to write about literature the convenient, affordable way! COMPACT LITERATURE: READING, REACTING, WRITING,9E helps you succeed in class and make literature a part of your life. Combining a broad selection of literature with time-proven writing instruction, this reader-friendly text walks you step-by-step through the entire research and writing process, helping you learn to craft literary analyses and arguments. Demonstrating that writing about literature is a process of discovery, examination, and debate, the text includes a comprehensive guide to writing about literature with full coverage of critical thinking and argument. Sampler chapters on fiction, poetry, and drama involve you in the variety and diversity of literature through brief, accessible works that showcase representative selections from four popular contemporary literary subgenres. This edition has been updated to reflect guidelines from the 2016 MLA HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition.




Steps to Writing Well with Additional Readings with (MLA 2021 Update Card)


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Combining detailed coverage of the writing process with a wealth of professional readings, Wyrick's STEPS TO WRITING WELL WITH ADDITIONAL READINGS has helped thousands of students learn to write effective academic essays. Extremely student-friendly, it presents rhetorical strategies for composing essays in an easy-to-follow progression of useful lessons and activities. With over 70 student and professional readings and a variety of hands-on activities, it gives you the models and practice you need to write well-constructed essays with confidence. The 11th edition features useful visual learning aids, student writing samples on timely topics, assignments that promote using sources and multiple rhetorical strategies, and updated discussions of multimodal texts and online databases. It also reflects guidelines from the APA's 2020 Publication Manual. Now available: MindTap digital learning solution.




The College Writer


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[This text] provide[s] coverage of the writing process for today's visually oriented students. The text also included a wealth of rhetorical strategies that instructors and students found accessible and helpful. [It] reinforces these strengths with enhanced coverage of many important topics such as analyzing the rhetorical situation, evaluating sources, avoiding plagiarism, and developing visual literacy.-Pref.




The New Harbrace Guide: Genres for Composing (with 2021 MLA Update Card)


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Every time you have to write in a college course or on the job, the situation is going to be different from the one before -- and at times, dramatically different. How can you approach the unique requirements of each situation with finesse and flair? This book will teach you a core set of strategies you can use to investigate any rhetorical situation and to decide on the best way to achieve your purpose for writing to a particular audience at a particular time. Renowned expert Cheryl Glenn shares these strategies and gives you detailed, step-by-step guides to different forms of writing.




The New Harbrace Guide: Genres for Composing


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Discover the rhetorically based writing guide designed for you, the digital native, with THE NEW HARBRACE GUIDE: GENRES FOR COMPOSING, 4E. This reader-friendly presentation, written by award-winning author Cheryl Glenn, is known for its trademark emphasis on writing in multiple media. This edition combines coverage of genres and persuasion with a thematic reader, research manual, and a new, rhetorically-oriented handbook section that offers step-by-step guidance in editing. Thirty-six new readings jumpstart your writing with interesting topics ranging from veganism and apolitical food to how young people are changing today's climate conversation. Updated content guides you in analyzing rhetorical choices, creating effective thesis statements, and applying the latest MLA or APA styles. With this edition and MindTap online tools, you can sharpen your digital, print, and multimodal composing skills as well as strengthen critical thinking that is invaluable in future courses and your career.




Sociology in Our Times


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This cutting-edge, applied book highlights the relevance of sociology by including a diverse collection of theories, research, and "lived experiences" that accurately mirror the diversity in society itself. The author's vivid, applied, personal writing style engages students, and activates compelling everyday examples that make sociology particularly relevant to diverse students. A social issue or application opens each chapter and provides various topics for boxes, features, and examples that are carried throughout the entire chapter. Kendall's text is acclaimed in the field for being the first textbook to integrate race, class, and gender issues; as well as for its thorough presentation of sociological theory, which includes diverse theoretical viewpoints such as feminist and postmodernist theory. Kendall shows students that sociology involves important questions and issues that they confront both personally and vicariously.




Introduction to Criminal Justice


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Introduction to Criminal Justice is the perfect text for students who are interested in pursuing a career in criminal justice and for those who simply want to learn more about the criminal justice system. The authors' combined experience of more than 50 years in teaching introduction to criminal justice as well as working in the field -- Bohm as a correctional officer and Haley as a police officer -- come through in their accessible yet comprehensive presentation. They make it easy for readers to understand that much of what the public "knows" about criminal justice in the United States is myth, and help students learn the truth about the U.S. criminal justice system.