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Real Essays with Readings: Writing Projects for College, Work, and Everyday Life

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This is the best developmental composition textbook I've seen or used. It opens with chapters exploring each step of the writing process, including exercises for students to do on their own or in class. Next are several chapters covering different genres of essay-writing. Each chapter includes three examples of the genre, one each from school, work, and everyday life contexts. 9 or 10 genres are included (including several types of arguement) so that the instructor can pick and choose which ones to focus on. Another section briefly introduces the research process. The final section, which takes up half of the book, covers grammar topics. It's organized according to frequency and severity of error, beginning with "The four most serious errors," (fragments, run-one, subject-verb agreement, and other verb problems). Each chapter includes a real-life example showing why it's important, in the real world, to understand these grammar concepts. Everything is explained in clear, simple language, with as little specialized terminology as possible. This is a terrific textbook, particularly for a community-college developmental writing class.

As opposed to the reviewer who found Real Essays "horrid," I would like to share with potential buyers that I have used the text for several years now and found it highly useful for teaching developmental writing and reading. This is not a text for traditional college freshman use ; it is intended to assist those who arrive at college with less than adequate English skills, which includes about 60% of all community college students. I would heartily recommend this textbook.

fast shipment great book for college!! received it in great condition. I am glad I purchased this book from this seller.

I sort of brought the wrong editon (teacher) because I asked for the isbn for the book but didn't think about the student/teacher editon >.< anyway it a very helpful book. It really do have real essays like the book say it would from and even stories and helpful tips/

This is a textbook aimed at developmental writing classes. As such, it is practical and easy to understand. Some of the reading selection could and example essays could be better selected, but Anker's book one of the better textbooks available for beginning college writers.

We never received the book, sad to say. It was for a young man for his college class. After waiting for three weeks, he was dropped from the class. The price of a new book was very expensive and out of his price range, so his grandfather was purchasing a used copy for him. I order frequently from Amazon books and have never had this problem.

I didn't sort of buy the wrong BOOK this is NOT WHAT I wanted or needed for my class! It's a Free Instructors Editition, NOT FOR RESALE, Oddly being sold here. If you don't click to enlarge you don't see the yellow line with that info.

NOT HAPPY :-( will return it!

The book is in really good shape, however, about 15 pages were torn out between ch 5 and 8. Luckily my professor let me take his book home.

This is a horrible text book, if you got all the way to college you will already know all this. there is no real useful information here for college students.

college text book, my daughter used it. No comment from me, I didn't read it.