How to Write Anything: A Guide and Reference With Readings

by John J. Ruszkiewicz, Jay T. Dolmage

How to Write Anything supports students wherever they are in their writing process.  Designed to be clear and simple, the Guide lays out focused advice for writing common academic and real-world genres, while the Reference covers the range of writing skills that students needs as they work across genres and disciplines. Genre-based readings €” including narratives, reports, arguments, evaluations, proposals and rhetorical, causal, and literary analyses €” are sure to engage students and inspire ideas.  The result is everything you need to teach composition in a flexible, highly visual guide, reference and reader. This new edition gives students more support for academic writing, more help choosing and working with genres, and more emphasis on multimodal composing.

Genres: Writing, School, Reference, Nonfiction, College

1072 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2008

Reviews

[vi paola · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was for school and it really helped with my writing skills.

[Emily Houvener]

This will stay on my currently-reading shelf through the semester. It's the chosen text for the 101 classes I'm teaching. So far, I'm finding it to be a helpful little text. The Instructor's Manual is dream of book, filled with exciting activities to try to get students out of their academic stupor.

[Kyra Horton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read excerpts for my composition two college course. Was well written and easy to follow!

[Phillip · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've taught out of a decent number of composition/rhetoric books in my time, and this is probably my favorite. The authors do a good job clearly and effectively presenting concepts--at least on a basic level--in such a way that students can easily follow. Their use of images is effective, including both pictures, and graphic guides to help with things like paper structure or setting up MLA citations. Some of the humor is a bit corny and some of the references try too hard to be hip, but one should expect that from a composition textbook, it's part of the charm.

[Rachael · Rating 4 out of 5]

I used this text for a college composition course and HIGHLY recommend it. It is user-friendly, easy-to-read and good for college students, especially those who are not inclined to write. I have an additional copy of the 2nd edition I'm willing to sell. If interested, please email me at given2fly1981@yahoo.com

[Romantic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstanding resource material for anyone interested in enhancing their writing skills and especially useful for writing college level papers.