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COMPOSITION

Easy Access
EASY ACCESS: The Reference Handbook for Writers
Third Edition

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
RULES OF THUMB: A Guide for Writers
Fifth Edition

Rules of Thumb is a concise, easy-to-use, and affordable handbook developed around students' real writing needs.

Transitions
TRANSITIONS: From Reading to Writing
Third Edition

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.

Everyday
EVERY DAY, EVERYWHERE: Global Perspectives on Popular Culture

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.

Motives
MOTIVES FOR WRITING
Third Edition

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.

The essay
THE ESSAY: An Introduction

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.

Read
READ, REASON, WRITE: An Argument Text and Reader
Sixth Edition

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
75 READINGS PLUS
Sixth Edition

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 writer
A READER FOR DEVELOPING WRITERS
Fifth Edition

This rhetorically organized reader very carefully leads beginning student writers from the elements of good writing through the patterns of development.

Great writing
GREAT WRITING: A Reader for Writers
Third Edition

An exciting option for first-semester freshman composition courses, Great Writing provides a multi-genre collection of works, all presented within familiar rhetorical contexts.

Arguing in communities
ARGUING IN COMMUNITIES: Reading and Writing Arguments in Context
Third Edition

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.

Ideal Reader
IDEAL READER

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.

THE STUDENT WRITER
THE STUDENT WRITER: Editor and Critic
Fifth Edition

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 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

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

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

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

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

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.



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