Cornerstones: Readings for Writers | edited by Barbara Clouse
Design your developmental writing text to match your approach. With Cornerstones, you select from high-interest, well-known readings with comprehensive and innovative pre- and post-reading apparatus that provides important support for your students.
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Barbara Clouse has taught all levels of college composition, first at Youngstown State University in northeastern Ohio and then at Slippery Rock University in western Pennsylvania. She has also written a number of composition texts. In addition to A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers, her books include The Student Writer: Editor and Critic, Jumpstart: A Workbook for Writers, Patterns for a Purpose: A Rhetorical Reader, and Transitions: From Reading to Writing, all written for McGraw-Hill. Barbara has also written Progressions with Readings and Conventions and Expectations: A Brief Handbook and Guide to Writing for Longman Publishers. A frequent presenter at national and regional conferences, Barbara often conducts workshops for writing teachers.
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Thematically arranged rhetoric-reader-handbook contains reading selections from The Cornerstones Collection combined with textbook chapters from Langan, Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays, 2e.Rhetorically arranged rhetoric-reader-handbook offers background material on each of the rhetorical patterns and annotated student essays illustrating the features discussed.Thematically arranged rhetoric-reader combines reading selections from The Cornerstones Collection with textbook chapters from Langan, Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays, 2e. Create can even build a separate Teacher’s Edition.This rhetorically arranged Cornerstones Starter Project offers background material on each of the rhetorical patterns. In addition, annotated student essays illustrate the features discussed. Let Create build you a separate Teacher’s Edition.This Cornerstones Process-Oriented Reader Starter Project combines textbook chapters about building and writing essays from Brannan, A Writer’s Workshop, 3e, with reading selections from The Cornerstones Collection. If need be, Create can build a Teacher’s Edition for you as well.This Cornerstones Multicultural Reader Starter Project contains relevant selections with accompanying apparatus. If you elect to use this starter project, Create can build you a Teacher’s Edition as well.This Cornerstones Multicultural Reader Starter Project combines various selections with no apparatus. If you’d like questions to accompany your readings, select the Multicultural Reader: Readings with Questions on Content and Technique.

Barbara Clouse has taught all levels of college composition, first at Youngstown State University in northeastern Ohio and then at Slippery Rock University in western Pennsylvania. She has also written a number of composition texts. In addition to A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers, her books include The Student Writer: Editor and Critic, Jumpstart: A Workbook for Writers, Patterns for a Purpose: A Rhetorical Reader, and Transitions: From Reading to Writing, all written for McGraw-Hill. Barbara has also written Progressions with Readings and Conventions and Expectations: A Brief Handbook and Guide to Writing for Longman Publishers. A frequent presenter at national and regional conferences, Barbara often conducts workshops for writing teachers.

Why start from scratch? We’ve provided a good starting point with these Cornerstones Express Books. Select an Express Books Title to get started in Create.
Thematically arranged rhetoric-reader-handbook contains reading selections from The Cornerstones Collection combined with textbook chapters from Langan, Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays, 2e.Rhetorically arranged rhetoric-reader-handbook offers background material on each of the rhetorical patterns and annotated student essays illustrating the features discussed.Thematically arranged rhetoric-reader combines reading selections from The Cornerstones Collection with textbook chapters from Langan, Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays, 2e. Create can even build a separate Teacher’s Edition.This rhetorically arranged Cornerstones Starter Project offers background material on each of the rhetorical patterns. In addition, annotated student essays illustrate the features discussed. Let Create build you a separate Teacher’s Edition.This Cornerstones Process-Oriented Reader Starter Project combines textbook chapters about building and writing essays from Brannan, A Writer’s Workshop, 3e, with reading selections from The Cornerstones Collection. If need be, Create can build a Teacher’s Edition for you as well.This Cornerstones Multicultural Reader Starter Project contains relevant selections with accompanying apparatus. If you elect to use this starter project, Create can build you a Teacher’s Edition as well.This Cornerstones Multicultural Reader Starter Project combines various selections with no apparatus. If you’d like questions to accompany your readings, select the Multicultural Reader: Readings with Questions on Content and Technique.

Barbara Clouse has taught all levels of college composition, first at Youngstown State University in northeastern Ohio and then at Slippery Rock University in western Pennsylvania. She has also written a number of composition texts. In addition to A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers, her books include The Student Writer: Editor and Critic, Jumpstart: A Workbook for Writers, Patterns for a Purpose: A Rhetorical Reader, and Transitions: From Reading to Writing, all written for McGraw-Hill. Barbara has also written Progressions with Readings and Conventions and Expectations: A Brief Handbook and Guide to Writing for Longman Publishers. A frequent presenter at national and regional conferences, Barbara often conducts workshops for writing teachers.
