Keys to Successful Writing (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)

Keys to Successful Writing is a rhetoric/reader/handbook that helps students become better writers by presenting straightforward, consistently applicable tools and techniques. The book's organization flows from simple to more complex essays and focuses on five "keys" to successful essay writing-purpose, focus, material, structure, and style. This distinctive heuristic, developed by the author and tested in her classrooms, helps students focus on the skills and ways of thinking that will make them stronger writers. Featuring a student-friendly, highly accessible writing style, the text presents clear, specific strategies for writing. These methods are combined with student and professional models that are engaging, provocative, and contemporary. An editing handbook is also included to establish the text as a complete writing resource. A series of interactive writing exercises and activities and longer writing assignments give the text a predictable organizational structure that's easy to learn from and teach.