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Andrew Roberts' Thinking Student's Guide to College helps students take charge of their university experience by providing a blueprint they can follow to achieve their educational goals.

This book gives students an answer to the question, “What does my professor want from this essay?” In lively, direct language, it explains the process of creating “a clearly-written argument, based on evidence, about the meaning, power, or structure of a literary work.”

Exploring Options is designed to help student writers develop their knowledge and use of academic language to meet the demands of college- and university-level writing assignments.

This book provides a foundation and framework to enhance your understanding of the various processes involved in academic writing.

This book breaks through formalistic traditions to propose a new generic structure analytical framework for academic writing.

Takes a conversational, "how to" approach to show you how writing connects to your academic and career goals.

Featuring clear and comprehensive guidance on the nuts and bolts of grammar, this concise volume will help students to break their bad habits and tackle written assignments with confidence.

Real Reading and Writing puts both reading skills and writing skills in a real-world context, showing students that good writing, reading, and thinking skills are both achievable and essential to their success in college and beyond.

Offers a new methodology for teaching academic writing informed by discourse analysis and genre theory and by recent research in text analysis.

Combining streamlined, nuts-and-bolts writing instruction with accessibility and visual appeal, The College Writer helps visual learners and less-prepared students master the writing process.

Pinpointing key processes of thinking, writing, and reading, Academic Writer provides you with the skills you need to write successfully in college no matter the discipline.

The Bedford Guide for College Writers gives students the tools they need to succeed as writers -- all in one book. Each of the book's four main components has been carefully developed to provide an engaging, well-coordinated guide for student writers.

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The Everyday Writer shows novice writers how to navigate rhetorical situations and make effective choices everywhere they write.

A brief rhetoric that empowers students as writers by giving them the tools they need to create a precise and well-focused thesis.

This text unites instruction in critical reading and analysis, argument, and research strategies with a rich collection of readings that provide both practice for these skills and new ideas and insights for readers.

Writing Papers in College provides clear, concise guidance on a comprehensive range of composition topics - writing, research, and grammar.

Combines carefully crafted instruction, high-interest readings and student models, and plentiful practice exercises, to provide the most effective paragraph-to-essay-level Developmental Writing text.

Axelrod and Cooper have bridged the gap between reader and rhetoric to create a book that provides both structure for students and flexibility for instructors.

This rhetoric/anthology instructs college students in how to read academic texts with understanding and how to use them as sources for papers in a variety of disciplines.

Combines an introductory anthology with detailed instruction in the writing process.

Provides outstanding instruction on how to read and write critically about the culture that surrounds us.

Focusing on argument as dialogue in search of solutions instead of a pro-con debate with winners and losers, it is consistently praised for teaching the critical-thinking skills needed for writing arguments.

A highly visual, thematically-organized reader intended for use in introductory composition courses. 

This practical text is a guide to three skills: 1) the critical thinking needed to reach a sound conclusion, 2) the imagination to generate the elements of an argument that would support that conclusion, and 3) the ability to plan, draft, and revise a written argument that readers judge to be persuasive.

Doing Honest Work in College stands on three principles: do the work you say you do, give others credit, and present your research fairly.