Paul Eschholz - Subject and Strategy A Writers Reader.

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Whether it is using comparison and contrast to analyze the past versus the present, or argumentation to advocate for a change to public policy, Subject & Strategy shows writers how to choose and apply the best writing strategy to the many topics and situations they will encounter as college writers.

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A WRITERS READER

A WRITERS READER

SIXTEENTH EDITION

• PAUL ESCHHOLZ
• University of Vermont

• ALFRED ROSA
• University of Vermont

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It is easy to see good thinking in good writing.

JIM TASS, student

We have always believed that learning to write is an indispensable skill set for an educated person and that writing courses are perhaps the most valuable ones that you will take during your college career. Why? Well, writing has worked for us, and our students have told us how valuable their writing skills have been, often several semesters after finishing a course with us. One alum, after being in the work world for a number of years, told us, There have been no skills of more importance to me professionally than my abilities to read critically and write clearly. In the opening to this preface, Jim Tass, one of our former students, tells us in his own words how important writing is for critical thinking, and the quotes from Katie Angeles, Katherine Kachnowski, and Keith Eldred (whose essays all appear in this book) show how good reading and writing has impacted their school work and lives, too. Our students soon discover that writing is not only helpful in communicating their thoughts to others but often more useful in clarifying their own thinking in the first place. You have probably noticed this yourself in both high school and college classes.