Slant: Writing Essays You Want to Read

Slant for the College Writer
This succinct college writing manual demonstrates a step-by-step process for creating phenomenal and engaging essays, encouraging every college writer to express and hone his or her personal voice and slant in every part of the writing process. It takes students beyond writing essays they have to write, challenging them to write essays they want to read.
 
Straightforward, Cutting-Edge Guide
It's one thing for an instructor to find a writing textbook that offers effective writing strategies.  It's yet another thing to find a textbook that students enjoy, and that excites them about their own writing.  Slant offers both, and does it in a way that provokes and challenges the student writer without the intimidation many feel when they begin writing in college.
 
The Writing Process
From creating a topic to revising a draft, this text guides students through each part of the process of writing an effective college essay.
 
Creativity
With an emphasis on the creative pursuit of writing an essay, Slant teaches students how to activate their own curiosities, voices, interests, and arguments.  It begins to break down that unfortunate divide that exists between creative writing and academic writing.
 
Classroom Tested.  Instructor and Student Approved.
For three years, Nicholas Leither compiled feedback from numerous college professors who used Slant in their courses across the curriculum. Leither worked directly with students, collecting feedback and research that helped make this edition appealing and more effective for students.  Likewise, Barry Horwitz has spent thirty years teaching writing, developing the writing process, and collaborating with other writing instructors.  Horwitz's contributions and his review of Slant come from a successful history of teaching writing and collaborating with teachers.