Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Comprehensive and truly accessible, Technical Communication guides students through planning, drafting, and designing the documents that will matter in their professional lives. Known for his student-friendly voice and eye for technology trends, Mike Markel addresses the realities of the digital workplace through fresh samples and cases, practical writing advice, and a companion Web site — TechComm Web — that continues to set the standard with content developed and maintained by the author. The text is also available in a convenient, affordable e-book format.

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Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. A proven success, A Canadian Writer’s Reference, Fourth Edition, remains the easiest reference tool to use and understand. Updated with Canadian content and conventions, the fourth edition features new contributing authors who bring a wider range of teaching practice to the book — and who have shaped a writer’s handbook that serves an even broader and more diverse student body.

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This volume provides students with accessible and easy-to-follow strategies for tackling the major types of documents, from writing reports to job applications. Interactive exercises are included to provide engaging scenarios for writing practice.

All the help students need to succeed Because so many first-year writing students lack the basic skills the course demands, reading specialist McWhorter gives them steady guidance through the challenges they face in academic work. Successful College Writing offers extensive instruction in active and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 61 readings that provide strong rhetorical models, as well as an easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition. McWhorter’s unique visual approach to learning uses graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and other visual tools to help students analyze texts and write their own essays. Her unique attention to varieties of learning styles also helps empower students, allowing them to identify their strengths and learning preferences. "Successful College Writing is not just about the mastery of academic discourse. It’s a leader in its genre because it helps students acquire valuable strategies for creating effective texts that are associated with expert professional communication in general." — Lilia Savova, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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