At a Glance by Lee Brandon (2005, Paperback)

Quick, comprehensive writing guidance at a low cost—the At a Glance series can be paired with any developmental title or used independently. This flexible series includes a separate textbook for sentences, paragraphs, essays, and a reader. Each book features clear, concise instruction reinforced by extensive practice, exercises, and examples.

At a Glance: Essays guides students through the process of prewriting and writingessays in different rhetorical modes. Clear explanations of each writing topic arefollowed by annotated student and professional essays—including a new example of a properly documented essay—plus exercises, and suggested writing topics.

The Third Edition also features fifteen new readings and an expanded list of cross curricular topics; an expanded handbook section, including units on diction, sentencevariety, and omissions; and a new unit on writing a research paper organized around the ten steps of the writing process.

• Straightforward advice on writing, with extensive practice and abundant explanations and examples.
• A clear, concise discussion of writing strategies includes examples from student writing to illustrate all stages of the writing process.
• Classroom-tested exercises help students with sentence, paragraph and essay organization.
• Career-related and reading-related writing assignments capture students' interest, and questions on the readings stimulate discussion, writing, and critical thinking.
• A self-evaluation chart helps students measure their own writing progress and identify their difficulties.
• A writer's checklist at the end of every chapter outlines the stages of the writing process.