What's New in Print
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COMPOSITION |
EASY ACCESS: The Reference Handbook for Writers
Third Edition
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This innovative handbook is organized by three distinct types of reference help, allowing writers to find the information they need quickly and easily. |
RULES OF THUMB: A Guide for Writers
Fifth Edition
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Rules of Thumb is a concise, easy-to-use, and affordable handbook developed around students' real writing needs. |
TRANSITIONS: From Reading to Writing
Third Edition
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The new edition of Transitions offers over sixty compelling short prose pieces, and guides the reader through the steps from active reading to insightful writing.
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EVERY DAY, EVERYWHERE: Global Perspectives on Popular Culture
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This unique reader offers students the opportunity to read, write and talk about the topics they're most familiar with--such as food, clothing, entertainment and sports--with the additional lense of cross cultural perspectives.
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MOTIVES FOR WRITING
Third Edition
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This highly succesful reader includes substantial writing instruction and is organized around the varied purposes that writers aim to achieve, from academic writing to writing for amusement.
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THE ESSAY: An Introduction
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Originally published as part of Robert DiYanni's Literature, fourth edition, this newly separated text serves those Introduction to Literature courses that cover the rich and exciting genre of the essay.
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READ, REASON, WRITE: An Argument Text and Reader
Sixth Edition
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This popular, very practical argument reader-rhetoric helps students develop into better writers of the kinds of papers they are most often required to write in college and the work world: summaries, analyses, reports, arguments and documented papers. |
75 READINGS PLUS
Sixth Edition
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The alternate version of the best selling 75 Readings, this popular rhetorically organized reader is an outstanding collection of the most popular essays for first-year writing. |
A READER FOR DEVELOPING WRITERS
Fifth Edition
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This rhetorically organized reader very carefully leads beginning student writers from the elements of good writing through the patterns of development. |
GREAT WRITING: A Reader for Writers
Third Edition
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An exciting option for first-semester freshman composition courses, Great Writing provides a multi-genre collection of works, all presented within familiar rhetorical contexts.
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ARGUING IN COMMUNITIES: Reading and Writing Arguments in Context
Third Edition
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This text-reader presents classical principles of argumentation and emphasizes, more than any other book available, the importance of context in reading, researching, and writing arguments.
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IDEAL READER
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The Ideal Reader features a collection of over 450 essays, poems, short stories and plays, that can be easily customized to fit the needs of any course.
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THE STUDENT WRITER: Editor
and Critic
Fifth Edition
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This rhetoric/reader/handbook helps students to discover their
own successful writing processes, and at the same time learn the qualities of effective
writing. |
A COMMUNITY
OF WRITERS:
A Workshop Course in Writing Third Edition |
Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff's groundbreaking rhetoric/reader is
known for its practical, workshop approach. |
 SHARING AND RESPONDING
Third Edition |
One of the most popular features of Elbow and Belanoff's A
Community of Writers, this step-by-step guide to peer response is offered here
separately for use with any McGraw-Hill writing text, or on its own. |
ENCOUNTERS:
Essays for Exploration and Inquiry
Second Edition |
This versatile essay reader for freshman writing courses offers a
full range of essays, from informal, familiar essays that explore ideas, to more direct,
argumentative essays, where meaning is more explicit. |
 THE
MCGRAW-HILL READER:
Issues Across the Disciplines
Seventh Edition |
The McGraw-Hill Reader provides students with a full
range of quality prose works treating core liberal arts issues, interdisciplinary themes,
and multicultural perspectives. |
THE SHORT
PROSE READER
Ninth Edition |
Now in its Ninth Edition, The Short Prose Reader
provides a rhetorically-arranged collection of lively essays that offer a spectrum of
diverse voices and perspectives. |
RULES OF
THUMB FOR RESEARCH with 1999 MLA Updates
Fourth Edition |
This spiral-bound, concise, and affordable guide to research is
designed to give students the essential research skills they need in college and beyond. |
RULES
OF THUMB FOR BUSINESS WRITERS
First Edition |
In order to excel in their professional careers, students must
learn to write clearly, succinctly, and correctly. Rules of Thumb for Business Writers
teaches students how to do just that. |
 RANDOM HOUSE DICTIONARIES
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McGraw-Hill English is proud to offer Random House dictionaries
as companions to our textbooks. Click here to read about the
exciting array of offerings now available. |