Description For college courses in Composition and Rhetoric. This version of 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 students in every step of the writing process--for both college composition and everyday life--and pulls back the curtain on how writers work.

Fools Manga. NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyWritingLab™ does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyWritingLab, search for: / 506 Backpack Writing Plus MyWritingLab with Pearson eText — Access Card Package, 4/e. Solah Singar Serial Song. Interstate Printers and Publishers. Danville, IL. Representations of the writing process and highly graphic layouts make the instruction accessible to developing writers. Faigley, Lester, Backpack Writing:Reflecting, Arguing, Informing, Analyzing. Evaluating (2008).

Aligned with the learning goals for a first-year college writing course identified in the 2014 Outcomes Statement from the Council of Writing Program Administrators, Backpack Writing gives students the support they need to succeed in first-year composition, in their other courses, and in their careers. * The 8th Edition introduces sweeping changes to the philosophy 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. How To Install Igo On Blaupunkt Radios. 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. A focus on academic writing • NEW! More attention to academic writing. Part 1, “The Academic Writer,” includes new content on academic reading and writing.

Chapter 1, “Thinking as an Academic Writer,” invites students to think about medium, genre, audience, and purpose at the outset; and Chapter 2, “Reading as an Academic Writer,” instructs students on how to read academic writing. The remaining chapters prepare students for planning, drafting, and revising academic writing. More examples of academic writing. Each chapter in Part 2, “The Persuasive Writer,” includes an extended example of a written, research-based academic project.

More support for research. The emphasis on academic writing in Part 1 now includes new sections on writing a summary, writing a paraphrase, starting an annotated bibliography, and synthesizing readings and visuals.