"This book demystifies academic writing and shows how to engage with the views of others. They Say helps students master the ins and outs of argumentative writing in accessible language and with examples students can apply throughout their college career.

The new seventh edition of English Skills with Readings features John Langan's trademark crystal-clear explanations, along with his range of motivating activities and writing assignments that reinforce the four bases of effective writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills.

A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read--and write. Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.

With comprehensive coverage of reading and study skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, and a unique visual approach to learning, "Successful College Writing" provides in-depth instruction on the skills other composition texts assume students already possess.

Our culture is becoming increasingly saturated with images, and the study of visual culture is of growing interest in the academy since it offers insights into the way that reality is constructed and represented. This distinctive new book adapts the proven methodology of Ways of Reading and combines four of its readings with four new ones to allow students to work productively with the complexities of visual representation.

Integrating writing instruction, readings, sentence combining and editing skills, THE WRITER'S RESPONSE teaches students how to write in direct response to ideas they have encountered in assigned readings.

Flexible and goal-oriented, this text integrates instruction in reading, writing, and research with topical, interdisciplinary readings and concludes with a research handbook.

Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum guides you through essential writing skills such as summary, critique, synthesis, analysis and research. Exercises bridge the gap between reading and writing.

Topics Include: Diagnostic Tests, Grammar, Vocabulary, and Writing.

Integrates reading and writing for college students and uses innovative approaches for teaching both. "The more effectively students can move back and forth between their roles as readers and writers throughout the writing process, the stronger the writing that they produce will be" (Jackson 8).