rhetoric

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.

Presents a step-by-step guide to narrative writing and provides tips on prewriting, first drafts, revisions, proofreading, and editing.

This book offers high school students the basic knowledge necessary to write short themes of the type most often required in composition courses. Students need above all an orderly approach to the problem of organizing and writing a short paper that makes a logical point and supports it. Such an orderly approach is the subject of this book.

Presents a concise style manual that provides the basic elementary principles of English usage and composition, with tips on commonly misused words and expressions, style, and spelling.