How to Use This Book and Its Companion Website
Preface to the Sixth Edition
WRITING PROCESS
P1 Getting Started
SPECIAL TOPIC
How to Be Good with Words
WRITING MECHANICS
M1 GrammarM4 EAL: For Those Whose Native Language Is Not English
SPECIAL TOPIC
Seeing and Meaning
WRITING CONTEXTS
C1 Writing Across the DisciplinesAppendix 1: Correction Key
Appendix 2: Essay Checklist
Corey Frost, formerly Coordinator of the Writing
Across the Curriculum Program at Brooklyn College, is now a
professor in the English Department at New Jersey City
University.
Karen Weingarten is a professor in the Department
of English at Queens College, City University of New York; a former
co-Coordinator of the Introductory English program, she is also the
author of Abortion in the American Imagination.
Doug Babington, an Emeritus Professor in the
English Department at Queen’s University, was for many years
Director of the Writing Centre there.
Don LePan’s other books include The Broadview
Pocket Glossary of Literary Terms, How to Be Good With Words, and
two novels, Animals and Rising Stories.
Maureen Okun is a professor in both the English
and the Liberal Studies Departments at Vancouver Island University;
her books include Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur: Selections
and The Broadview Pocket Guide to Citation and Documentation.
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