Keys to Successful Writing: Unlocking the Writer Within, with Readings (with MyWritingLab) (4th Edition)

By Marilyn Anderson

Keys to Successful Writing , An essay-level rhetoric/reader/handbook, prepares student writers for college, career, and everyday writing success by illustrating the writing process as a process of reading, thinking, and writing. The distinctive five "key" heuristic of purpose, focus, material, structure, and style, developed by the author and tested in her classrooms, helps students focus on the writing process and critical thinking that will make them stronger writers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205519415
• ISBN13: 9780205519415
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A good book that makes good writing

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this book helped me write an award winning essay.

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I found this book helpful on a daily basis.

I found Marilyn Anderson's book Keys to Successful Writing, quite helpful. The book helped me establish a better understanding of what pro-nouns and adjectives were. I also found that I had no knowledge of what dangling modifiers,faulty parallelism/comparison, as well as others were until I started working on grammar exercises. I also liked the fact that M. Anderson uses essays from her students to illustrate an essay's...