Strategies for Successful Writing: A Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook

by James A. Reinking, Robert von der Osten, Sue Ann Cairns

Informed by current rhetorical theory and an organization that reflects a view of writing as a process, Strategies for Successful Writing provides the necessary strategies to help you produce effective post-secondary writing, regardless of your discipline.
Featuring a reader-friendly layout and tone, Strategies will engage you through a relaxed, conversational style that complements its practical, student-based approach to writing. Lively and appealing professional and student model essays allow you to observe and internalize the strategies of successful writing.
This popular text has been updated with 10 new readings, carefully streamlined content to reduce length, and updated MLA and APA documentation guidelines.

Genres: Reference, Writing, Nonfiction

696 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[BlackbirdFrenzy Meagher · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's fine as a technical overview but nothing special. Reading about writing isn't writing.

[Katy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Here's the thing: this text is bare bones and mostly "just the facts Ma'am"; just the thing for community college or non-English major students. I've found the "Reader" section, which contains real-life essays on topics from immigration to machsimo to defining family, to be a useful supplement for modeling examples of writing topics, strategies, and architecture. Plus, the TOC sports a cross-reference that matches up the categories of the essays in the "Reader" section to the "Rhetoric" section, so I don't have to flog my brain, and, gasp -- do it myself.

[Meltha · Rating 4 out of 5]

While not perfect, this really does work as a good composition textbook. It's clear, provides a workable number of readings from which to select, and succeeds in getting to the point. I admit, though, that I've never used the grammar section.

[Samantha Garlock]

Hey it is a textbook give me a break! ;)

[Lucille · Rating 5 out of 5]

I still refer to this book.

[Kareena]

Read the chapters that were required for my English course. [March 27, 2015]