The New Harbrace Guide: Genres for Composing (w/ MLA9E Updates)

THIS UNIQUE GUIDE BRINGS A STUDENT-FRIENDLY APPROACH TO CURRENT WRITING THEORY AND RESEARCH. Award-winning author Cheryl Glenn applies her extensive teaching experience to craft an approach that's ideal for first-year writing, co-req, dual enrollment, or integrated reading-writing courses. The book's trademark emphasis on composing in multiple media, its clear introduction to and sustained focus on the rhetorical situation, and its extensive support are just three of the distinct advantages that instructors like you continue to praise.

A SUSTAINED EMPHASIS ON MULTIMODAL COMPOSITION PREPARES STUDENTS FOR RHETORICAL SUCCESS IN A DIGITAL WORLD. A complete chapter guides students in designing multimedia text -- print, digital, verbal, and visual -- that persuades. Students learn to develop rhetorical approaches for YouTube videos, oral presentations, and other common types of multimedia assignments.

FLEXIBLE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES EIGHT COMMON GENRE ASSIGNMENTS. This edition introduces students to creating a memoir, profile, investigative report, position argument, proposal, evaluation, critical analysis, and literary analysis. Each genre is covered in its own chapter, giving you the flexibility to cover content in the sequence that's best for your course.

NUMEROUS GENRE EXAMPLES SUPPORT STUDENT LEARNING. Each genre chapter begins with a short "Genre In Focus" example. Many of these offer a digital focus in addition to an annotated example and cross references to similar examples of the genre in the book. Annotated examples of student and professional writing in every genre clearly demonstrate how rhetorical elements interact, how rhetorical effects are created, and how essays and other compositions are structured. Varied examples in "Writing in Three Media" help students apply rhetorical principles in today's digitally oriented culture.