Successful College Writing: Skills/ Strategies/ Learning Styles: 2009 MLA Update

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Reading specialist Kathleen McWhorter understands that students are often lacking in the skills they need to succeed in the first-year writing course and need a text that doesn’t assume they have mastered all the basics. Successful College Writing meets students where they are, offering extensive instruction in careful and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 64 professional and student readings that provide strong rhetorical models, as well as an easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition.

McWhorter’s unique visual approach to learning uses graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and other visual tools to help students analyze texts and write their own essays. Her unique attention to varieties of learning styles also helps empower students, allowing them to identify their strengths and learning preferences.

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 reading and writing skills for developmental students, including The Writer’s Selections, Fifth Edition (2008), Academic Reading,?Sixth Edition (2007), Efficient and Flexible Reading,?Eighth Edition (2008), Active Reading Skills, Second Edition?(2008), and Reading Across the Disciplines: College Reading And Beyond,?Third Edition (2007), as well as a? composition reader, Seeing the Pattern: Readings for Successful Writing (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).