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Writing for Success

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Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition. Beginning with the sentence and its essential elements, this book addresses each concept with clear, concise and effective examples that are immediately reinforced with exercises and opportunities to demonstrate, and reinforce, learning. Each chapter allows your students to demonstrate mastery of the principles of quality writing. With its incremental approach, it can address a range of writing levels and abilities, helping each student in your course prepare for their next writing or university course.

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University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
Publish Date
October 27, 2015
Level
Undergraduate
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Textbooks are reviewed by subject matter experts in addition to our quality assurance process. Reviewers are paid an honourarium to provide their honest feedback on the material.

Instructor
Reetika Khanna, Acsenda School of Management
No. I would not recommend this book to either students or teachers for the following reasons: 1. The text is not reader friendly. 2. It is wordy and long. 3. The examples provided are too long and difficult to understand for students. 4. The book has North American assumptio...„
Instructor, Co-operative Education
Candy Ho, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
In terms of making the text more appropriate for Canadian institutions, perhaps a mini-section of US vs. Canadian spellings and provide examples.„
Assistant Professor
Ceilidh Hart, University of the Fraser Valley
The readings and examples are not especially relevant for Canadian students. The text does a great job of breaking down the process of writing into stages, but I do find it to be too prescriptive at times. For example, the author suggests that the 5 paragraph essay is st...„

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