Evergreen: A Guide to Writing with Readings

With carefully crafted instruction, engaging student models, and plentiful practice exercises, this best-selling text continues to provide the most effective paragraph-essay level writing instruction available. EVERGREEN is structured around Susan Fawcett's proven MAP (model-analysis-practice) forma. more

With carefully crafted instruction, engaging student models, and plentiful practice exercises, this best-selling text continues to provide the most effective paragraph-essay level writing instruction available. EVERGREEN is structured around Susan Fawcett's proven MAP (model-analysis-practice) format -- a guiding pedagogy featuring minimal inductive instruction followed by varied practice designed to improve students' confidence and learning outcomes. Known for its superior essay coverage, EVERGREEN demonstrates each of the nine rhetorical patterns with two student sample essays (one in the third person, and one in the first person), and a graphic organizer. The Eleventh Edition includes a new chapter focused on active reading strategies; more explanation of and practice for writing effective thesis statements; updated information about research and citing sources; and nine new high-interest readings in a variety of modes, with new post-reading questions and assignments.

Susan Fawcett's tested MAP format (model-analysis-practice) first provides an example of the concept presented, then discusses the concept, and immediately provides an opportunity for hands-on practice.

Numerous student models provide students with real, attainable examples of paragraphs and essays. more

Susan Fawcett's tested MAP format (model-analysis-practice) first provides an example of the concept presented, then discusses the concept, and immediately provides an opportunity for hands-on practice.

Numerous student models provide students with real, attainable examples of paragraphs and essays in the writing patterns.

EVERGREEN provides the most thorough and engaging essay coverage, with student models for each writing pattern and graphic organizer diagrams that lead students through the process of writing an essay.

Thorough and engaging critical-thinking coverage includes "Critical Thinking and Writing" and "Critical Viewing and Writing" activities to emphasize the role of visual analysis in critical literacy. The Annotated Instructors Edition (AIE) offers additional Teaching Tips focusing on critical thinking.

Superior ESL coverage includes integrated practice opportunities for grammar and spelling, an ESL Appendix that focuses on particular ESL stumbling blocks, ESL Tip annotations in the AIE that suggest how and when to provide ESL instruction, and a separate Guide to Teaching Evergreen with ESL Students that provides specific assistance in teaching English language learners.

Evergreen is easy to teach from for new instructors while offering flexibility to experienced ones. Clear organization, rich practices, and marginal ESL and Teaching Tips in the AIE help both adjuncts and veterans keep their teaching materials fresh.

Chapter 14, "The Process of Writing an Essay," includes more explanation of and practice for writing effective thesis statements.

Throughout the book, new and revised writing samples offer examples of a diversity of modes: illustration, description, process, definition, comparison and contrast, cla. more

Chapter 14, "The Process of Writing an Essay," includes more explanation of and practice for writing effective thesis statements.

Throughout the book, new and revised writing samples offer examples of a diversity of modes: illustration, description, process, definition, comparison and contrast, classification, cause and effect, and persuasion. The modes are also clearly represented in the anthology readings.

Chapter 19, "Strengthening an Essay with Research," has been revised with updated information on using library databases and the Internet as well as instruction on citing sources using the new MLA style as presented in the MLA Handbook, 8th Edition. Sections on citing sources using APA style, as well as a comparison of MLA and APA style, have been added.

A new chapter on reading actively (Chapter 42, "Reading Strategies for Writers") considers reading in both digital and print environments and instructs students on how to use the REAP and SQ3R reading strategies.

Nine new reading selections include such high-interest topics as the habits of Generation Z, blogging in the Arab world, and preparing for the zombie apocalypse. New end-of-reading questions have been organized to address language and vocabulary, comprehension and analysis, and writing assignments.

Updated images throughout the book help students hone their visual literacy and keep them engaged.

As always, exercises and examples throughout the book have been refreshed for currency and student interest.

Susan Fawcett

Susan Fawcett is the author of two market-leading college composition textbooks: Evergreen: A Guide to Writing (11th Edition) and Grassroots: The Writer's Workbook (12th Edition). Both texts have won the peer-juried McGuffey Award for sustained excellence, presented by the Text & Academic Authors Association. With degrees in English literature from Ohio University and Columbia University, New York, Ms. Fawcett’s honors include a Fulbright Fellowship to Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. She found her calling as a professor of English and Director of the Writing Lab at Bronx Community College, City University of New York, where, dismayed that existing textbooks didn’t help her students learn, she began creating her own worksheets that soon became Grassroots. Ms. Fawcett gave up her tenure to write fulltime--textbooks, poetry, and articles on education and health. She has led faculty workshops throughout the United States and in South Africa.

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