rhetoric

Presents over five hundred writing prompts designed to provide practice and build skills for the essay question portions of high school exit exams, college placement exams, and other important tests, grouped in the areas of persuasive, expository, and narrative writing, and literary response.

Explains how to write a personal essay, covering prewriting, writing styles, the rough draft, revision, proofreading, editing, and presenting.

Explains how to write an informative paper, covering prewriting, research and organization, the rough draft, revision, proofreading, editing, and presenting.

A spiral-bound reference guide for writers, examining topics including composition and style, correctness, and basic grammar; as well as a detailed menu, a list of revision symbols, an ESL menu, a list of online resources for writers, and an index.

A guide to teaching students to write persuasively.

Young-adult novelist Judith Ortiz Cofer discusses her personal development from her childhood in Puerto Rico to her role as an American writer and teacher, describing the tools she uses to generate ideas and improve the effectiveness of her writing.

Presents step-by-step guidance for writing several kinds of letters, including personal, career and employment, general business, customer service, sales and marketing, internal, vendor, and credit, collection, and billing correspondence as well as E-mails and faxes, and includes over three hundred sample letters.

Presents writing techniques useful for getting words on paper, for revising, for dealing with an audience, and for getting feedback.