New college writers come from a wide range of backgrounds and communities. And for many, academic reading and writing skills are ones they must learn and practice. Enter Rules for Writers. It’s an easy-to-use, comprehensive composition tool with the quality you expect from authors you trust. It empowers students by teaching them how to meet new expectations and by giving them the practice that builds confidence.
With trusted advice for writing well, reading critically, and working with sources, Rules for Writers now has even more help for underprepared and inexperienced writers—sentence guides that foster an academic voice, tips for spotting fake news and misleading sources, more on paraphrasing, and fifteen new “how-to” pages that offer practical help for writing challenges.
Comprehensive coverage means you and your students have access to sensible, vetted advice and practical models to help students with composing and revising, reading critically, developing arguments and analyses, conducting and integrating research, and practicing grammar and punctuation skills
Writing guides help students work through college writing assignments in a variety of genres.
Critical reading and academic writing instruction build skills that transfer assignment-to-assignment and course-to-course
MLA and APA formatting and citation advice help your students work within multiple disciplines
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New sentence guides help students with the most basic academic scenario: presenting and responding to the views of others. Fill-in sentence starters provide useful models for participating in academic discourse and writing research papers
New coverage guides students as they learn how to detect fake and misleading news as they search for sources
Four new Writing for an audience boxes help students keep their readers in mind as they make decisions about how to develop their ideas
Revised advice on paraphrasing and on using sources responsibly develop good academic citizenship among beginning college writers
Diana Hacker
English Composition Writing Grammar Academic Skills