How Writing Works: A Guide to Composing Genres

College students are expected to master new genres in every course they take. Yet composition instructors can't possibly teach students every genre they will need for their college courses or careers. Instead of telling students how to write a genre, authors Jack and Pryal help students learn how a genre works using a genre toolkit that asks three questions: "What is it?" "Who reads it?" and "What's it for?" By taking this problem-solving approach to writing, How Writing Works prepares students for any writing situation that they may encounter at school, home, or work.

Distinctive Features
* The Genre Toolkit helps students identify a genre's structure, audience, and purpose
* Integrated Assignments show students how to construct a series of small assignments that lead up to a major chapter project
* Individual, Team, and Multimedia Projects draw from a variety of popular, professional, and academic examples to address rhetorical challenges of visual, written, and oral communication
* Supplements like the Companion Website, the Instructor's Manual, and the Annotated Instructor's Edition include a variety of resources for students and professors

• Globalization: A Reader for Writers
• "They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, with 2016 MLA Update (Third Edition)
• Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 (The Best American Series ®)
• An Insider's Guide to Academic Writing: A Brief Rhetoric
• Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World: From the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Concise Edition) (Vol. 1)
• World View: Seeking Grace and Truth in Our Common Life
• Why You Think the Way You Do: The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home
• A Student's Guide To Foundations Writing w/ Access
• The Writer's FAQs: A Pocket Handbook (5th Edition)
• Technology: A Reader for Writers