Features

New to This Edition

• Expanded support for ELL students runs through the book in the form of ELL teaching tips for instructors, and Language Notes for students.  These Notes point out English features that differ from other languages (and thus show non-native speakers things to watch out for), but are carefully called out  as linguistic notes about the language, not as problems that would single out ELL students in the classroom.
• Expanded critical thinking coverage includes robust coverage of active and critical reading throughout the first chapter and the first part, with an expanded discussion of previewing, paraphrasing, and summarizing.   “Read to write” questions and annotation suggestions remind students to read actively, notice a writer’s strategies, and consider how those strategies could be applied in their own writing.  In addition, “Reflect and Apply” questions in each chapter are designed to promote critical thinking and skills transfer to writing situations in other courses, disciplines, and contexts.  
• New reading selections, most focusing on the theme of education, cover topics important to college students of all ages and backgrounds, like  learning strategies, learning disabilities, navigating college, and overcoming challenges. New student essays include one by an ELL writer, and the argument chapter now features an expanded section inviting students to consider the quality and use of source material by the writers of the paired selections.
• Four new Profiles of Success highlight the successful writing of a more diverse group of former student writers who better reflect the diversity of the developmental student population, demonstrating concretely to students how they  themselves can succeed.
• The Four Basics have been streamlined for clarity, and  include instruction for each part:  the main idea (first basic), primary support (second basic), secondary support (third basic), and organization (fourth basic).
• A new mode-appropriate grammar in context feature in each of the modes chapters demonstrates  how grammatical concepts are used for particular rhetorical purposes (using past tenses in narrative, for example, or parallel structures in classification)
• A new research/MLA appendix provides quick answers to students’ research questions and helpful documentation guidance.  
• New custom options available through our ForeWords for English library  make it easy to adapt Real Writing to meet your students’ needs. Add Sentence Guides for Academic Writers, the Insiders’ Guide to Academic Planning, or browse our complete library of ForeWords.  Add up to two ForeWords chapters at no additional cost.