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Insider’s Guide to Academic Writing, Brief Edition
by Susan Miller-Cochran and Roy Stamper and Stacey CochranWith 2020 APA Update. Valued for its clear, accessible presentation of disciplinary writing, the first edition of An Insider’s Guide to Academic Writing was celebrated by adopters at two-year and four-year schools alike. With this second edition, the authors build on that proven pedagogy, offering a series of flexible, transferable frameworks and unique Insider’s video interviews with scholars and peers that helps students to adapt to the academic writing tasks of different disciplinary discourse communities - and helps instructors to teach them. New to the second edition is additional foundational support on the writing process, critical reading, and reflection, to give students stronger tools to apply to their disciplinary writing. An Insider’s Guide to Academic Writing is based on the best practices of a first-year composition program that has trained hundreds of teachers who have instructed thousands of students. Use ISBN 978-1-319-05355-0 to get access to the online videos for free with the brief text and ISBN 978-1-319-05354-3 for the version with readings
The Bedford Guide for College Writers
by X. J. Kennedy and Dorothy M. Kennedy and Marcia F. MuthWith 2020 APA Update. Combining a step-by-step rhetoric and a fresh thematic reader, The Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader provides a strong foundation for first-year writing. Based on feedback from our advisory board, this edition of the Guide has been streamlined to strengthen its focus on academic writing. Expanded support for planning a writing project and carefully evaluating online sources enables students to write and research confidently. Engaging new professional and student essays provide relevant models of writing from sources--the kinds of assignments students will face throughout their years in college. The book’s hallmark checklists help students move through every stage of the writing process, and Learning by Doing activities provide continuous opportunities for active learning.
Motivational Interviewing, Third Edition
by Stephen Rollnick and William R. MillerThis bestselling work for professionals and students is the authoritative presentation of motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating change. The book elucidates the four processes of MI, engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning and vividly demonstrates what they look like in action. A wealth of vignettes and interview examples illustrate the "dos and don'ts" of successful implementation in diverse contexts. Highly accessible, the book is infused with respect and compassion for clients. The companion Web page provides additional helpful resources, including reflection questions, an extended bibliography, and annotated case material. This book is in the Applications of Motivational Interviewing series. New to This Edition Reflects major advances in understanding and teaching MI. Fully restructured around the new four-process model. Additional case examples and counseling situations. Reviews the growing evidence base and covers ways to assess MI fidelity. Pedagogical Features Include Online reflection questions and annotated cases, ideal for classroom discussion. Key points at the end of each chapter. Engaging boxes with special topics and personal reflections. Extended bibliography and quick-reference glossary.
Media Career Guide
by Sherri Hope Culver and Nichole HarkenTargeted to today's media-savvy students, the eleventh edition of Media Career Guide includes the latest information on the emerging employment opportunities in mobile media, as well as tips for developing and honing professional networking skills. This essential manual provides an updated, comprehensive directory of media jobs, and walks readers through the entire job-search process, from researching a company to applying for jobs to displaying appropriate behavior in the workplace.
The Rhetorical Tradition
by Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg and Robin ReamesThe Rhetorical Tradition, the first comprehensive anthology of primary texts covering the history of rhetoric, examines rhetorical theory from classical antiquity through today. Extensive editorial support makes it an essential text for the beginning student as well as the professional scholar.
The Bedford Researcher
by Mike PalmquistThe academic conversations you join and the challenges you face have never been more complex. The Bedford Researcher provides the tools to confront this complexity with thoughtfulness and integrity. Written to help you strengthen your ability to understand, assess, and contribute to ongoing conversations about important issues, the seventh edition responds to the challenges of an expanding variety of information and the critical importance of evaluating sources and offers the practical help you need to research and write with confidence.
Thinking through Sources for Ways of the World
by Robert Strayer and Eric NelsonDesigned as a companion reader to accompany Ways of the World Since 1200, each chapter contains a DBQ-like project of six to eight carefully selected written and visual primary sources organized around a particular theme, issue, or question. Each project is then followed by related secondary sources. Source include headnotes and questions intended to assist students in developing the skills required to read, analyze, and write about sources. Essay questions at the end of each chapter provide a starting point for classroom discussion or a written assignment.
The Investigative Reporter’s Handbook
by Brant Houston and Mark Horvit and Investigative Reporters and Inc. EditorsBuild the fundamental investigative writing and reporting skills you need to investigate anything and anyone. The text’s easy-to-use handbook style allows readers to quickly access any information--everything from how to build quality reporting skills and collaborate on investigations to tips for researching a variety of beats. This is the text on investigative reporting, infused with illustrative quotes and instructive examples from highly-respected journalists around the world.
Updated Myers’ Psychology for the AP® Course
by David G. Myers and C. Nathan DeWallAnnouncing a new Myers/DeWall text, created specifically for the Fall 2019 AP® course framework! You are likely familiar with the name Dr. David G. Myers. Now, he and his new co-author, Nathan DeWall, bring you a book that will allow you to use College Board's new Personal Progress Checks and Dashboard more effectively. This updated edition includes 100% of the new course content in the new nine-unit structure. All teacher and student resources will also be updated to correlate to the new student edition; this includes the TE, TRFD, TB, Strive, and LaunchPad. Everything will publish in summer 2020 such that you can use this new program for Fall 2020 classes. If you're not familiar with Myers/DeWall texts, you are in for a treat! Drs. Myers and DeWall share a passion for the teaching of psychological science through wit, humor, and the telling of poignant personal stories (individually identified in the text by the use of each author's initials [DM and ND]). Through close collaboration, these authors produce a unified voice that will teach, illuminate, and inspire your AP® students.
The Handbook of Technical Writing
by Gerald J. Alred and Charles T. Brusaw and Walter E. OliuFrom abstracts to online professional profiles, from blogs and forums to formal reports and manuals, the Handbook of Technical Writing uses smart, accessible language to spotlight and clarify technical writing today. Hundreds of topic entries, 90 sample documents, at-a-glance checklists, and clear, explicit models, communicate the real-world practices of successful technical writers. Developed by a legendary author team with decades of combined academic and professional experience, the book's intuitive, alphabetical organization makes it easy to navigate its extensive coverage of grammar, usage, and style. Plus, updated, in-depth treatment of pressing issues like the job search, audience awareness, source documentation, and social media use on the job resonate both in class and at the office. With a refreshed, integrated focus on the ways technologies shape writing, the Twelfth Edition of the Handbook is the indispensable reference tool for writing successfully in the workplace.
Rules for Writers
by Diana Hacker and Nancy SommersBeginning college writers come from a wide range of backgrounds and communities. And for many, academic reading and writing skills are ones they must learn and practice. Enter Rules for Writers. It’s an easy-to-use, comprehensive composition tool with the quality you expect from authors you trust. It empowers students by teaching them how to meet new expectations and by giving them the practice that builds confidence.
With trusted advice for writing well, reading critically, and working with sources, Rules for Writers now has even more help for underprepared and inexperienced writers—sentence guides that foster an academic voice, tips for spotting fake news and misleading sources, more on paraphrasing, and fifteen new “how-to” pages that offer practical help for writing challenges. It’s an affordable solution with significant value, especially when paired with LaunchPad Solo for Hacker Handbooks, an innovative practice solution available at no additional cost when package with a new text.
Rules for Writers with Writing About Literature
by Diana Hacker and Nancy SommersBeginning college writers come from a wide range of backgrounds and communities. And for many, academic reading and writing skills are ones they must learn and practice. Enter Rules for Writers. It’s an easy-to-use, comprehensive composition tool with the quality you expect from authors you trust. It empowers students by teaching them how to meet new expectations and by giving them the practice that builds confidence. With trusted advice for writing well, reading critically, and working with sources, Rules for Writers now has even more help for underprepared and inexperienced writers—sentence guides that foster an academic voice, tips for spotting fake news and misleading sources, more on paraphrasing, and fifteen new “how-to” pages that offer practical help for writing challenges. It’s an affordable solution with significant value, especially when paired with LaunchPad Solo for Hacker Handbooks, an innovative practice solution available at no additional cost when package with a new text. With Rules for Writers, you’re giving students more for their money, more ways to succeed, and more support than ever to help them meet the challenges of college writing—no matter what their background.
A Pocket Style Manual, APA Version
by Diana Hacker and Nancy SommersBecoming a college writer means becoming a college researcher, and it can be a challenge for students to keep all of the guidelines and best practices straight for each class. Enter A Pocket Style Manual, APA Version. The eighth edition—with its emphasis on step-by-step how-to instruction that helps students apply writing, research , and citation advice in practical, transferable ways—is a powerful companion for writing in all disciplines. What’s more, it covers all aspects of writing in APA style, including over 100 APA documentation models and 11 sample student papers in diverse genres, from a literature review to a laboratory report to a professional memo. With Pocket’s new research help, tested and trusted grammar and style advice, and digital tools that make practice, tracking, and grading simple, you’ve got the most powerful pocket guide for college writing and research.
Scientific Teaching
by Sarah Miller and Jo Handelsman and Christine PfundSeasoned classroom veterans, pre-tenured faculty, and neophyte teaching assistants alike will find this book invaluable.
HHMI Professor Jo Handelsman and her colleagues at the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching (WPST) have distilled key findings from education, learning, and cognitive psychology and translated them into six chapters of digestible research points and practical classroom examples. The recommendations have been tried and tested in the National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology and through the WPST. Scientific Teaching is not a prescription for better teaching. Rather, it encourages the reader to approach teaching in a way that captures the spirit and rigor of scientific research and to contribute to transforming how students learn science.
Discovering GIS and ArcGIS Pro
by Bradley A. ShellitoShellito's Discovering GIS and ArcGIS Pro provides students with hands-on work with GIS software, while explaining the "how" and "why" behind each application. Software changes quickly--the theory has a longer shelf life. The goal of Discovering GIS and ArcGIS Pro is to teach students how to combine GIS concepts with ArcGIS Pro software skills, preparing students for successful careers in the real world. Each chapter focuses on using a variety of ArcGIS tools in a real-world context. At the start of each chapter, a scenario puts the student in a particular role with a number of tasks to accomplish.
Solutions Manual for Quantitative Chemical Analysis
by Daniel C. Harris and Charles A. LucyThe 10th edition of Quantitative Chemical Analysis continues to set the standard for learning analytical chemistry with distinguished writing, the most up-to-date content, and now the acclaimed SaplingPlus program, supporting exceptional problem solving practice. New author Charles Lucy joins Dan Harris, infusing additional subject expertise and classroom experience into the 10th edition.
Joining the Conversation
by Mike PalmquistWith 2020 APA Update Grounded in the best practices of effective writing instruction, Joining the Conversation’s rhetorical approach teaches students the key critical thinking skills they will draw on as they begin to explore and respond thoughtfully to the complex conversations around them. From reflective and informative to analytical and persuasive writing, chapters follow real student writers as they find a conversation, develop, revise, and document their writing. Thoroughly revised, the fourth edition includes new student projects and more support for academic reading, critical thinking, and assessing credibility and bias.
A Writer’s Reference with Writing about Literature
by Diana Hacker and Nancy SommersWriting about Literature is a practical guide to interpreting works of literature and to planning, composing, and documenting papers about literature. Students will find help with forming and supporting an interpretation, avoiding plot summary, integrating quotations from a literary work, observing the conventions of literature papers, and using secondary sources. Writing about Literature also includes two sample student essays — one that uses only a primary source and one that uses primary and secondary sources.
A Guide to Writing in Psychology
by Nancy Sommers and Stephen A. Bernhardt and Chrysalis WrightWith 2020 APA Update A Guide to Professional Writing, part of the Writer’s Help Guidebook Series, offers writing and research support for students writing in the discipline. This compact yet comprehensive guidebook provides the value students want with the essential instruction they need to get their writing tasks completed successfully. Students will find advice on how to think, read, research, design and write papers, projects and presentations like a professional writer. Coverage includes the following topics, all focused on the specific needs of professional writers: * Writing process * Conventions in the discipline * Integrating and evaluating sources * Documentation style required in the discipline--with plenty of models * Sample student writing
A Guide to Professional Writing
by Nancy Sommers and Stephen A. Bernhardt and Sean ZdenekWith 2020 APA Update A Guide to Professional Writing, part of the Writer’s Help Guidebook Series, offers writing and research support for students writing in the discipline. This compact yet comprehensive guidebook provides the value students want with the essential instruction they need to get their writing tasks completed successfully. Students will find advice on how to think, read, research, design and write papers, projects and presentations like a professional writer. Coverage includes the following topics, all focused on the specific needs of professional writers: * Writing process * Conventions in the discipline * Integrating and evaluating sources * Documentation style required in the discipline--with plenty of models * Sample student writing
A Guide to Writing in Criminal Justice and Criminology
by Nancy Sommers and Stephen A. Bernhardt and Rick A. MatthewsA Guide to Writing in Criminal Justice and Criminology.
A Guide to Writing in Nursing and Health Professions
by Nancy Sommers and Stephen A. Bernhardt and Caitlin KiltsWith 2020 APA Update A Guide to Writing in Nursing and Health Professions, part of the Writer’s Help Guidebook Series, offers writing and research support for students writing in the discipline. This compact yet comprehensive guidebook provides the value students want with the essential instruction they need to complete writing tasks successfully. Students will find advice on how to think, read, research, and design and write papers, and projects and presentations like a nurse or health professional. Coverage includes the following topics, all focused on the specific needs of writers in nursing and health professions: * Writing process * Conventions in the discipline * Integrating and evaluating sources * Documentation style required in the discipline--with plenty of models * Sample student writing
Practical Strategies for Technical Communication
by Stuart A. Selber and Mike MarkelWith 2020 APA Update. In today’s constantly changing workplace, it’s important to keep up with strategies for successful communication, whether it happens through email, websites, presentations, social media, or cover letters. Practical Strategies for Technical Communication helps get students up to speed with a concise, accessible guide to everything they need to know about audience and purpose, document design, research, style, and more. In the third edition, noted scholar and teacher Stuart A. Selber joins the author team. The new edition features expanded coverage of nontraditional resume formats such as infographics and videos, a new discussion of usability testing, and an array of revised and updated Tech Tips. Practical Strategies for Technical Communication is available with LaunchPad– a customizable course space featuring an ebook and an exciting array of digital resources including a test bank, adaptive quizzing, multimedia Document Analysis Activities, and more. To order or purchase the print book packaged with LaunchPad, use ISBN 978-1-319-22438-7.