Reason To Write is a series of guidelines, strategies and practice in writing for academic success. Reason to Write takes students through the writing process from generating ideas, drafting and revising, to proof-reading and editing. This advanced edition focuses on essay writing.
Key Features
- Each theme-based unit contains a short, thought-provoking reading passage to spark students' interest and provide meaningful issues to write about.
- Accompanying activities establish a framework for lively, in-depth discussion and the development of analytical thinking skills, which are so crucial to effective writing in higher education.
- All instruction in each unit, including grammar, vocabulary, and rhetorical style, is thoroughly integrated with the theme and the writing objectives, so that students proceed along a seamless path from reading to thinking to writing, from the preparatory stages of writing to the completion of a final written piece.
Unit 1 Pendora's Box
Unit 2 Cherries for My Grandma
Unit 3 Tree World in One
Unit 4 Who'd Spying on Your?
Unit 5 Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
Unit 6 Two Theories of Personality Types
Unit 7 The Kite Runner
Unit 8 Ethics in the Digital Age