Real Essays Interactive: A Brief Guide to Writing Essays

by Susan Anker

Real Essays Interactive　offers practical coverage of essay writing skills in a brief, interactive, and affordable format. The print component offers the essentials of Anker’s accessible writing instruction along with select exercises; additional exercises are available online in LearningCurve, adaptive, game-like quizzing that helps students focus on the material they most need help with. As with all books in the Anker series, Real Essays Interactive motivates students with its message that writing is an essential and achievable skill and encourages students to connect what they learn with their own goals and with the needs and expectations of the larger world.

320 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 2013

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 1 out of 5]

While I appreciate the compact nature, this book did not remotely meet my needs in the college composition classroom. It is far too thin on most content students require. The suggested paper topics are truly awful. For example, "types of stress" is suggested as a topic for an argumentative research paper. The grammar explanations might be a valuable content, if only for the extremely simplified breakdown of the biggest grammar errors. It's also outdated; I'm sure they'll fix the MLA style soon enough, but it was another error to have to waste time explaining away to students. It might work well for a developmental classes or transitional studies, but it won't get students where they need to be for college-level academic writing.