Grassroots w/ Readings: The Writer's Workbook (w/ MLA9E Updates)

Modular chapters and units enable instructors to customize their courses.

Clear, step-by-step lessons are based on Fawcett's MAP (model-analysis-practice) strategy for student learning.

More than 320 thought-provoking practices keep students involved.

Engaging activities and assignments include 20 critical-thinking and -viewing activities integrated throughout the book.

Nineteen diverse, high-quality reading selections--nine new readings in this edition-- include expanded "Reading Strategies for the Writer," language and vocabulary questions, discussion and writing questions and writing assignments.

A dynamic, colorful design features photos, paintings, cartoons and graphics carefully chosen by the author--more than 30 new to this edition.

Updated "Exploring Online" web links help students research online.

Integrated ESL coverage anticipates the needs of diverse learners.

More emphasis on the reading-writing connection: Additional support helps instructors weave reading skills effectively into their classes. A new section in Chapter 1 on "The Reading and Writing Connection" underscores GRASSROOTS' read-think-write pedagogy--the Fawcett MAP (model-analysis-practice) approach. The section also cautions students about internet and social media sources and gives reading strategies for writers. Unit 9, "Reading Selections," expands its coverage of reading strategies for longer work.

Nearly 50 percent new professional reading selections: Nineteen readings feature top authors like Sherman Alexie, Leonard Pitts and Maya Angelou at a time when critical reading grows in importance, yet many competitors are cutting their readings. Nine new readings include Karen Cox on skill-building video games, Constance Staley on single-tasking as vital to success, Angela Johnston on the ethics of care-bots, immigrant Andrew Lam on American wastefulness, Esther Cepeda on disliking tamales and James Campbell on our fading connection with nature.

Reorganized chapters on rhetorical patterns: Coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns is reorganized from two chapters to three. Instructors requested this logical and easy-to-teach division: Chapter 5, "Illustration, Narration, and Description"; Chapter 6, "Process, Comparison and Contrast, and Classification"; and Chapter 7, "Definition, Cause and Effect, and Persuasion."

Thirty new high-interest practice sets: Hundreds of paragraph- and essay-length practice sets keep students reading as they proofread for errors in context, prelude to proofing their own work. New topics include 3D printing, America's opioid crisis, lessons taught by Shark Tank, urban farmer Will Allen, Latina businesswomen, San Diego Comic-Con, commercial drones, Kevin Durant, pros and cons of Facebook, Utah's canyons, Melissa Stockwell (amputee and Paralympian), Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, women on the police force and more. Many other topics are revised with the latest research.