The second edition of Write Now guides students through the process of writing, revising, and editing their work and gives them greater confidence as they approach writing for college, for their careers, or for their everyday lives. Students are offered plenty of practical, hands-on advice for exploring ideas, drafting, revising, and editing for any writing situation they might encounter. Unique to Write Now, the Rhetorical Star is used throughout the text to keep students focused on their writing situation as they draft, revise, edit, and design their work. The Annotated Instructor's Edition includes classroom suggestions, tips for using SmartBook and LearnSmart, and answers to activities and Grammar Window exercises.
Connect Composition supports instruction across multiple semesters and courses with interactive exercises, online learning videos, enriched ebook materials,annotation and writing tools, and much more!
* LearnSmartAchieve - a continuously adaptive learning system that pinpoints students' individual strengths and weaknesses and provides personalized support to help them master key topics and material. LearnSmart Achieve provides foundational support on key course areas such as the writing process, critical reading, the research process, reasoning and argument, grammar and commonsentence problems,punctuation and mechanics, style and word choice, and multilingual writer support.
* Power of Process - a critical reading and writing tool that guides students through instructor-chosen strategies and helps them engage directly with a text through highlighting, annotation, and short answer questions.
*Analytics - Progress dashboards that quickly show how you are performing on your assignments and tips for improvement.
Author Biography:
Karin Russell has been helping students achieve success for nearly 30 years. Russell earned her B.A. degree from Stetson University and her M.S. degree from Florida State University. She has taught a variety of composition and humanities courses for several Florida schools, including Eastern Florida State College, Nova Southeastern University, and several career colleges. For the past 24 years, Russell has been a full-time English instructor at Keiser University, where she also served as the English department chair for 12 years. Russell is especially interested in showing students how writing is applicable to their future careers and enabling students to develop their writing skills through a process-oriented, multimodal approach to composition. She passionately believes that nearly anyone can become a good writer with the right instruction and enough practice. Russell debuted the rhetorical star method of writing in her textbook Write Now.
