A Student's Companion to in Conversation

Conquer the comp course.Designed to support students learning to navigate college and first-year composition at the same time, A Student's Companion to In Conversation helps writers make the most of their handbook and their composition course with more than 65 exercises and dozens of activities: Part 1 covers the transition from high school writing to college writing andincludes common college success strategies such as time management.Part 2 covers essay and paragraph development, active reading, audienceawareness, peer review, revision, and working with sources. Sixteen graphicorganizers for essays and paragraphs help visually-oriented students plan andorganize different types of writing.Part 3 includes exercises in rhetorical and research skills such as using topicsentences, avoiding plagiarism, and reading critically.Part 4 includes exercises in sentence-level topics including parallelism, subject/verbagreement, fragments, using commas and quotation marks, and more.