A Writer's Resource (comb) with Student Access to Catalyst 2.0 [Plastic Comb]

Elaine Maimon (Author), Janice Peritz (Author), Kathleen Yancey (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 007325892X | ISBN-13: 978-0073258928 | Publication Date: December 22, 2005 | Edition: 2

The second edition of A Writer's Resource draws on its authors' 20 years of research into writing in college and provides the most extensive technological support available, forming an indispensable resource for learning, writing, researching, and editing. The second edition features a stonger focus on visual rhetoric, new documentation flowcharts, a new chapter on multimedia assignments, enhanced coverage of note-taking and plagiarism, new online peer review utilities (as well as course management utilities for instructors), and more!

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About the Author

KATHLEEN BLAKE YANCEY, Professor and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at FSU, Ph.D, Purdue University (1984), where she held a David Ross Summer Fellowship as well as a David Ross Dissertation Fellowship. The Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English, she has edited, co-edited or authored eight books as well as over 60 articles and book chapters. A ninth volume, the edited collection The Fifth Canon: Delivering College Composition, is in press; and another, Electronic Portfolios in the English Classroom, is in preparation. She co-founded the journal Assessing Writing and co-edited it for seven years; with Barbara Cambridge, she co-founded and co-directs the National Research Coalition on Electronic Portfolios. She is a consultant for the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, and she is the lead researcher for the national study "Portraits of Composition: How Writing Gets Taught in the 21st Century."

Contact Information:
Kathleen Blake Yancey
The Florida State University
Department of English
224 Williams Building
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1580
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Product Details

• Plastic Comb: 635 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 2 edition (December 22, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007325892X
• ISBN-13: 978-0073258928
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #252,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Elaine P. Maimon is the first author of several widely used texts--"A Writer's Resource", "The McGraw-Hill Handbook", "The Brief McGraw-Hill Handbook", and "Writing Intensive"--all published by McGraw-Hill, with the intention of helping students become independent writers. In the 1970's, she initiated and then directed the Beaver College writing-across-the-curriculum program, one of the first WAC programs in the nation. With a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, where she later helped to create the Writing Across the University (WATU) program, she has taught and served as an academic administrator at Haverford College, Brown University, Queens College, and Arizona State University. She was Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage, and is now President of Governors State University, the only public university in the south suburbs of Chicago.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is best!! For Eng 101, January 10, 2007

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The product came pretty quickly but the packaging wasn't very good and the corners of the book were bent. I would recommend that they put some cardboard or something a little sturdier in the packaging when they ship it.

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