Patterns+for+College+Writing

This text takes students step by step through the writing process. It includes the skills necessary for both reading in order to acquire the information for essay writing as well as the skills required for creating the essays. It moves very slowly through the varying essay archetypes, very carefully scaffolding each subsequent writing challenge for the burgeoning writer. The text is very technical and often dry. This makes it an ideal writing manual to be paired with literary or periodical texts in order to practice the skills contained within. The text does include some examples of effective writing but begs a more fully developed repertoire for successful instruction in any one of the essay archetypes chronicled within.
 * Kirszner and Mandell. //Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide//. Bedford/St. Martin's 2004**