Writing in the Margins
A Field Guide to Academic Writing

Writing in the Margins is a stream-lined, practical guide designed to help first- year students meet with a high degree of success in academic writing—not only in the first-year composition sequence, but across disciplines throughout their academic careers.

• Writing in the Margins models effective rhetorical strategies for every phase of the academic writing process whether writing for in-depth analysis or surface correctness. This text covers everything from invention and research to arrangement and editing, and finally to writing effective introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs.

• It also takes the unique approach of dividing the academic writing process into a series of teachable “moments,” each associated with the discourse of persuasion.

• Every chapter offers useful writing-to-learn sequences that continuously reinforce instruction and provide the student ample hands-on practice.