The Concise McGraw-Hill Guide: Writing for College, Writing for Life

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The Concise McGraw-Hill Guideis designed to help students learn to write more effectively not only in their college courses but also in their professional, civic, and personal lives. An affordable reader, rhetoric, and research guide,The Concise Guideshows students how tosetgoals for their writing, to use effective composing strategies to reach those goals, and toassesstheir progress toward achieving them. Based on the idea that effective writers are strong communicators in any context,The Concise McGraw-Hill Guideemphasizes the skills established by the Writing Program Administrator's Outcomes Statement that form the foundation of assessment practices at writing programs throughout the country -- rhetorical knowledge, critical thinking, writing processes, and conventions. These skills form the basis of the instruction in each assignment chapter and throughout the text.