Experiencing Reading and Writing

Experiencing Reading and Writing integrates both diversity of material with sound theory using an inductive, cognitive/rhetorical model that links reading and writing in an informed way. This text singularly focuses upon the college reader and the writer. Its primary objective is to create lifelong learners who can understand without recrimination what their difficulties had been and how they can now read and write much more fluently than ever before.Experiencing Reading and Writing will enable students to:Identify the main idea and supporting paragraphs in expository writingPerceive how our five senses contribute to the writing and reading of spatial descriptionDistinguish the emotional response appropriate to narrative from the intellectual response appropriate to expositionJudge the validity of argument and ascertain the power of persuasionUnderstand how writing relates to readingAnd More! Experiencing Reading and Writing features:Cognitive and affective learning strategiesDozens of culturally diverse readings across the disciplinesStudy questions, writing assignments and quizzes for each readingFilms and eConnections related to each readingClearly written introductions to each chapter and subtopicGraphic illustrationsCollaborative projects to accompany each chapter