A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays

3rd edition. — McGraw-Hill, 2009. — 736 p.: — ISBN 0077275640; 0073385689.A Writer’s Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays engages developing writers with a hands-on, process-oriented, collaborative, and conscientious approach to writing, treating students as writers and writing as a dynamic process.The books offers two main features for instructors:* Flexibility in teaching approaches.This text offers a great deal of explicit instruction on fundamental sentence grammar and mechanics, allowing instructors to shape a course that focuses primarily on these issues. However, as a fully developed composition textbook, A Writer’s Workshop encourages instructors to integrate grammar and mechanics into meaningful writing assignments so that students have a real context in which to develop their skills in standard edited English.* Instruction linked to a rhetorical context.Writing assignments are grounded in the rhetorical triangle: text, writer, and reader, paying particular attention to audience.