The Inquisitive Writer Author:Richard Hanson From Back Cover: — All writing examples in The Inquisitive Writer come from students in developmental courses, which motivates students as they find that they can emulate these excellent student paragraphs and essays. There is a focus on developing COMPLETE, organized paragraphs as building blocks to essays. — The rhetorical modes are stressed as ... more »cognitive patterns students already use when they think, and students finde that al they need to learn is how to produce organized, complete paragraphs when using these modes to make their ideas clear.
The user-friendly, consistent organization of these rhetorical mode sections demonstrates the similarities in the writing process for all writing.
In addition to chapters devoted to editing essays for punctuation, grammar, and usage concerns, The Inquisitive Writer also has brief, understandable chapters on sentence coherence and eliminating wordiness.
The handbook has brief, thorough, common sense explanations for finding and solving problems, using a minimum of grammatical terms.
The Inquisitive Writer's final section discusses methods for developing longer essays, developing critical reading skills, and writing the short researched essay using either MLA or APA documentation styles.« less