Writing Analytically with Readings (with 2016 MLA Update Card)

Now available digitally-first through MindTap--the ultimate composition workflow solution designed to help you become a better writer in an affordable and easy-to-use format, this clear, concise, and extremely practical writing guide emphasizes smarter and more perceptive writing. WRITING ANALYTICALLY WITH READINGS, 3E emphasizes producing smarter, more perceptive writing--skills that can be carried over into any kind of writing you do throughout college and your career. This brief rhetoric combines the authors' best-selling writing guide with cutting-edge readings. It delivers a methodical approach to what many consider to be the primary activity of academic discourse--careful analysis. The consistent focus on writing as a tool of thought and a vehicle for analysis remains a hallmark of the book as it provides careful focus on analysis and thesis and paper development. The exciting new Third Edition also now offers online integration with Enhanced InSite. Each student text is packaged with a free Cengage Essential Reference Card to the MLA HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition.