Reynolds, Ed : Retired-Spokane Falls Community College

Huntington, Marcia : Everett Community College

Confidence in Writing is a paragraph-to-essay developmental writing text that includes both student and professional readings to illustrate basic writing concepts and serve as models for analysis. Student examples show writing through various drafts, and illustrates invention, drafting, and revision concepts. Adopting a writing process approach, the text includes a handbook section that covers grammar and mechanics on the sentence level along with a short section on spelling improvement. The fourth edition of this fundamental textbook provides students with a process for planning, organizing, drafting, and revising paragraphs and essays.

Benefits:

• Students learn to write by writing rather than through grammar exercises.
• This book is written at a level that is accessible to students and provides beginning writers with a strong understanding of essay construction.
• The last section of the text is a basic handbook that offers clear, understandable explanations, and an excellent index.
• Peer review exercises provide material for classroom collaborations.
• NEW! Thirty-five percent of the student and professional models are new.
• NEW! Expanded coverage of revision/editing.
• NEW! Includes "Writing at Work" section to show how basic modes might translate into work-related writing.
• NEW! Includes more coverage on introductions, conclusions, and transitions.

1. Beginning with Paragraphs: Writing about an Object.
2. Continuing with Paragraphs: Writing about People.
3. Continuing with Paragraphs: Writing about a Place.
4. Using Paragraphs as Parts of Longer Pieces: Writing about an Activity.
5. Introducing the Essay: Recalling Events.
6. Developing the Essay: Explaining Ideas.
7. Mastering patterns of Development.
8. Writing the Summary
Major Steps in Summarizing
Practicing on Longer Pieces.
9. Additional readings
Handbook: The Conventions of Writing
Corrected Versions of Editing Exercises
Index
Credits.