The Composition of Everyday Life, Brief (w/ MLA9E & APA7E Updates) | 6th Edition

Showing students that the act of writing is connected to their daily lives, Mauk and Metz's THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, Concise, emphasizes invention to help students rediscover concepts, uncover meaning and rethink the world around them. This proven text is noted for its fresh voice, colorful use of images and the soundness and timeliness of its pedagogical foundation. The sixth edition offers 13 chapters to help students invent ideas, more than any other text on the market. With 36 reading selections by professional and student writers, many responding to the chapter prompts, this book fully engages students in writing academic essays. And, with its emphasis on invention, The COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE gives students excellent preparation for the academic reading and writing activities they may encounter throughout their college experience and well beyond.

MindTap English for Mauk/Metz's The Composition of Everyday Life, 6th Edition is the digital learning solution that powers students from memorization to mastery. It gives you complete control of your course--to provide engaging content, to challenge every individual and to build their confidence. Empower students to accelerate their progress with MindTap. MindTap: Powered by You. MindTap gives you complete ownership of your content and learning experience. Customize the interactive assignments, emphasize the most important topics and add your own material or notes in the ebook. Interactive activities on grammar and mechanics promote application in student writing, and an easy-to-use paper management system allows for electronic submission, grading and peer review while tracking potential plagiarism. A vast database of scholarly sources with video tutorials and examples supports each step of the research process, and professional tutoring guides students from rough drafts to polished writing. Visual analytics track student progress and engagement with seamless integration into your campus learning management system that keeps all your course materials in one place. MindTap English comes equipped with the diagnostic-guided JUST IN TIME PLUS learning module for foundational concepts and embedded course support. The module features scaffolded video tutorials, instructional text content and auto-graded activities designed to address each student's specific needs for practice and support to succeed in college-level composition courses. The Resources for Teaching folder provides support materials to facilitate an efficient course setup process focused around your instructional goals: the MindTap Planning Guide offers an inventory of MindTap activities correlated to common planning objectives, so that you can quickly determine what you need.