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"The Academic Writer helps your students develop the rhetorical common sense they will need to read and write successfully in college, no matter what the discipline or medium in which they are composing. With its "guidelines" flowcharts highlighting key processes of thinking, writing, and reading; its streamlined and updated advice for analysis, synthesis, and research; a new chapter on strategies for multimodal composing; and advice on writing in a multimodal environment throughout, this text is the perect introduction to college writing -- at a price your students will appreciate. Order this edition for the most current topics your students will want to read, discuss, and write about." -- from the back cover.