Real Writing: Modernizing the Old School Essay

by Dirk Schulze, Dawn Reed, Carrie Nobis, et al.

Book Overview

High-school writing prompts often ask students to provide overly simplified responses to complicated issues, but a person's stance in the real world can rarely, if ever, be reduced to "agree or disagree." Arguments are complex, with more than two points of view and a range of evidence to consider; however, writing classes don't always embrace that complexity. Real Writing: Modernizing the Old School Essay contends that engaging fully with complex...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475824793
• ISBN13: 9781475824797
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"