Writing Better Essays - Softcover

As a teacher of composition for more than twenty years, I am delighted by Rogers' Writing Better Essays. It contains the best instructions for improving paragraphs that I have ever used in my classes. Martha C. McNair, Ph.D. --Northwest Arkansas Community College

All I can say is that I wish I d had a copy of your book when I was teaching composition! Elise Elliott, English Instructor and Undergraduate Advisor --University of Texas at Arlington

Writing Better Essays provides a practical, easy-to-follow approach by which students and inexperienced writers will be able to develop their own reliable process for writing successful argumentative essays. Based on simple rhetorical premises and a series of key stages for drafting, the book includes many examples of good practice. It explains not only the qualities that distinguish these examples, but also demonstrates methods for emulating these qualities while providing exercises for each chapter. Students and others gain confidence in their writing as they learn to express their ideas more fully through assured paragraphs and full-length essays. David L.Rogers directs the Kingston Writing School at Kingston University London. He has been Head of the School of Humanities and has lectured in all aspects of writing, including essay writing and rhetorical practice to under-graduates and post-graduates both in the UK and in the USA. Writing Better Essays is designed to be read and used by students and writers of all levels of ability and David's engaging style will liberate and inspire students of all disciplines.