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Backpack Writing: Reflecting, Arguing, Informing, Analyzing, Evaluating
For college courses in Composition and Rhetoric. Thisversionof Backpack Writing has been updated to reflect the 8th Edition of the MLA Handbook(April 2016)*
Revealing the writing process through interactive learning
Backpack Writing, 4th Edition presents writing, reading, and research processes dynamically, using a variety of visuals to illustrate how readers interact with texts and how writers compose. One of the first textbook authors to focus on multimedia composing, Lester Faigley employs his own advice to engage individuals in every step of the writing process--for everyday life--and pulls back the curtain on how writers work. Backpack Writing gives individuals the support they need to succeed in their careers.
* The 8th Editionintroduces sweeping changes to thephilosophy and details of MLA works cited entries. Responding to the increasing mobility of texts, MLA now encourages writers to focus on the process of crafting the citation, beginning with the same questions for any source. These changes, then, align with current best practices in the teaching of writing which privilege inquiry and critical thinking over rote recall and rule-following."
Revealing the writing process through interactive learning
Backpack Writing, 4th Edition presents writing, reading, and research processes dynamically, using a variety of visuals to illustrate how readers interact with texts and how writers compose. One of the first textbook authors to focus on multimedia composing, Lester Faigley employs his own advice to engage individuals in every step of the writing process--for everyday life--and pulls back the curtain on how writers work. Backpack Writing gives individuals the support they need to succeed in their careers.
* The 8th Editionintroduces sweeping changes to thephilosophy and details of MLA works cited entries. Responding to the increasing mobility of texts, MLA now encourages writers to focus on the process of crafting the citation, beginning with the same questions for any source. These changes, then, align with current best practices in the teaching of writing which privilege inquiry and critical thinking over rote recall and rule-following."
432 pages, Paperback
Published July 13, 2016
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December 20, 2007
Not as good as its predecessor: "The Visual Guide to Writing," the Faigley book is nonetheless one of the best writing texts for developmental college writers, this year. It is affordable, well organized and uses student essays to good effect. I'm very picky about my rhetorics, and I'll be using this one in the Spring. It's not a perfect book: the readings leave a lot to be desired and the examples and exercises are often not visual enough for my tastes, but it's among the best of the crop, this year.
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