Successful College Writing

Ninth Edition

Publication Date: June 01, 2025

E-book ISBN: 9781319623876

Pages: 880

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Table of Contents
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Part 1 An Introduction to Reading, Writing and Learning in College

1 Reading and Writing for College Success

2 Active Reading and Responding

3 Thinking, Reading, and Writing Critically

Quick Help Guide to Reading

Part 2 Strategies for Writing Essays

4 Prewriting: How to Find and Focus Ideas

5 Developing and Supporting a Thesis

6 Writing Effective Paragraphs

7 Drafting an Essay

8 Revising Content and Organization

9 Editing Sentences and Words

Part 3 Patterns of Development

10 An Introduction to Patterns of Development

11 Narration: Recounting Events

12 Description: Portraying People, Places, and Things

13 Illustration: Explaining with Examples

14 Process Analysis: Explaining How Something Works or Is Done

15 Comparison and Contrast: Showing Similarities and Differences

16 Classification and Division: Explaining Categories and Parts

17 Definition: Explaining What You Mean

18 Cause and Effect: Using Reasons and Results to Explain

Part 4 Reading and Writing Arguments

19 Reading Arguments

20 Writing Arguments

Part 5 Writing with Sources

21 Planning a Research Project and Evaluating Sources

22 Finding Sources, Taking Notes, and Synthesizing Ideas

23 Drafting, Revising, and Formatting a Research Project

Part 6 Academic and Business Applications

24 Reading and Writing about Literature

25 Essay Examinations and Portfolios

26 Multimedia Presentations and Business Writing

Part 7 Handbook: Sentence Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics

Kathleen T. McWhorter

Kathleen T. McWhorter is professor emerita of humanities and former director of the Learning Skills Center at Niagara County Community College. She has also been on the faculty of the State University College at Buffalo. She is the author of a number of books on writing for freshmen-level students, including the popular guide Successful College Writing, Seventh Edition (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2018), and the composition reader Reflections: Patterns for Reading and Writing, Second Edition (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2017). She has also written a number of textbooks on reading and writing for developmental students, including In Concert: Reading and Writing, Second Edition (2016); In Harmony: Reading and Writing, Second Edition (2016); Reading Across the Disciplines: College Reading and Beyond, Sixth Edition (2015); Academic Reading, Eighth Edition (2014); and Efficient and Flexible Reading, Tenth Edition (2014).