rhetoric

A guide to writing scholarship essays that offers advice from scholarship judges and tips on what committees look for, as well as interview strategies, and features thirty sample essays--along with twelve examples of what not to write.

Provides guidance on persuasive writing for a variety of situations, and discusses challenges, issues, and pitfalls.

Emphasizes effective reading, writing, and communication using the real forms and documents we encounter daily.

Offers 46 lessons for teaching students how to elaborate with details when writing.

Describes the process of X-ray reading, or close reading, that involves reading texts in such a way that you see beneath the words to the meaning of literary passages and the use of writing strategies. Uses examples from twenty-five classic and contemporary works, ranging from Virgil's "The Aeneid" to "The Great Gatsby.".

Presents advice and guidelines for writing college entrance essays, providing over one hundred real essays written by students who were accepted at colleges like Harvard and Yale.

Reveals how writers can take advantage of the brain's hard-wired responses to story to captivate their readers' minds through each plot element.

Gives tips and tricks to help readers determine central ideas and summarize literature and informational text using expert reader models, then providing guided practice.

Gives tips and tricks to help readers evaluate both sides of an argument using expert reader models, providing guided practice and helping to prepare written responses.

Presents a collection of speeches, addresses, and letters written by Abraham Lincoln including his message to a special session of Congress in July 1861, his First Inaugural Address in 1862, the Gettysburg Address, and blends history and biography of the sixteenth president.