Ready to Write 1: A First Composition Text with Essential Online Resources

The latest edition of Ready to Write marks 30 years of this easy-to-teach, user-friendly three-book series. With a fresh four-color design and a variety of new activities, this classroom favorite provides guided writing instruction, dependable strategies, and many opportunities for students to hone the composition skills they need to be successful in personal and academic settings.

• Updated examples and model paragraphs illustrate organizing elements such as topic sentences, supporting details, and signal words.
• New Essential Online Resources contain the answer key, plus additional activities for extra practice in grammar for writing with a focus on basic punctuation, writing mechanics, and para- graph structure.
• Extensive practice activities and clear teachable steps guide students through prewriting, writing, revising, and editing as they move from personal (emails, journals, letters) to academic (essays, lab reports, analyzing data, college applications) writing.
• Paragraph-writing assignments provide practice in various rhetorical writing types including narration, description, opinion, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and problem/solutions.