Stanly Community College Library: English 111 Writing & Inquiry: Books

Writing Type Books (Selected)

Essentials of Argument
This efficient and easily readable book presents thinking and writing about argumentative issues in a clear format, enabling them to participate productively in all forms of argument, including those they encounter in school, at home, and on the job.
Everyday Arguments
Everyday Arguments combines a highly practical, student-oriented argument rhetoric with an anthology of illustrative readings drawn from everyday life.
Teaching Arguments
In Teaching Arguments: Rhetorical Comprehension, Critique, and Response , Jennifer Fletcher provides teachers with engaging classroom activities, writing prompts, graphic organizers, and student samples to help students at all levels read, write, listen, speak, and think rhetorically.
Teaching for Critical Thinking
He outlines a basic protocol of critical thinking as a learning process that focuses on uncovering and checking assumptions, exploring alternative perspectives, and taking informed actions as a result.

Descriptive Writing
Provides examples that illustrate how to make your writing work for you by showing more and telling less.
Word Painting Revised Edition
Writing strong descriptions is an art form, one that you need to carefully develop and practice. The words you choose to describe your characters, scenes, settings, and ideas--in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction--need to precisely illustrate the vision you want to convey.
Write Great Fiction - Description and Setting
With dozens of excerpts from some of today's most popular writers, Write Great Fiction: Description & Setting gives you all the information you need to create a sharp and believable world of people, places, events, and actions.
Writing to Describe
Presents information on writing descriptive articles and essays, covering how to select a topic, create the first and improved drafts, make corrections and revisions, and share work with an audience.

Crafting Expository Argument
A writing handbook for students and teachers that fuses grammar into the writing process. This text includes plenty of sample paragraphs and papers, an extensively revised chapter on grammar, MLA guidelines, and a literary glossary.
Teaching Expository Writing
A guide for the teacher of writing provides a philosophical basis as well as practical advice on planning, teaching, and evaluating a course, including representative projects in several areas.
They Say / I Say
"The Fourth Edition includes 40 readings (22 of which are NEW) that represent a multitude of perspectives organized around 5 conversations.
Writing with Power
Presents writing techniques useful for getting words on paper, for revising, for dealing with an audience, and for getting feedback.

From Narrative Onward
This paragraph-to-essay level worktext uses personal narrative as the touchstone for student writing, ranging from the personal to the persuasive. Every chapter opens with an engaging personal narrative, written by a professional, on an important life concern.
Narrative Writing
Examines the elements needed to get the creative process moving, including choosing an idea, selecting the plot, and strengthening the narrative voice.
Sharpen Your Story or Narrative Writing Skills
Learn the parts of a narrative, the steps in the writing process, and writing examples and ideas.
Writing a Narrative
Presents information on writing a narrative, covering how to gather narrative details, develop characters, handle dialogue, create the first draft, make a final revision, and share work with an audience.

Four by Four
rganized in four chapters, each containing four sections, the text opens with a history of rhetoric that serves as a logical preface to the persuasive writing basics, guides, and patterns presented in the remainder of the book.
How to Write Persuasively Today
How to Write Persuasively Today is an authoritative handbook for getting your point across, a step-by-step how-to guide for making sure you say what you mean in the clearest, most effective way possible.
The Rhetoric of Reason
To those who have lost faith in the abilities of people to reach reasoned mutual agreements, and to others who have attacked the right-or-wrong model of formal logic, this book offers the reminder that the rhetorical tradition has always viewed argumentation as a dialogue, a response to changing situations, an exchange of persuading, listening, and understanding.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Persuasive Writing
Explores various methods for focusing on, investigating, organizing, and writing about a topic that explains your opinions in a convincing manner.