Habits of the Creative Mind: A Guide to Reading, Writing, and Thinking

Product Description

A unique resource for first-year composition, Habits of the Creative Mind  encourages college writers to be curious and follow their own paths in order to discover their own interests. Portable and flexibly arranged, the second edition of this innovative text offers frameworks to develop persistence in planning, revising, and learning from failure, with all new examples of writers at work on interesting problems as models for reflection. With input from instructors who use Habits, a new instructor’s manual  provides practical suggestions for incorporating this approach to exploring questions and facing complexity.

Review

“There is indeed an audience waiting to receive such a work. The authors are paying attention to that crucial area the WPA council promotes―one that others have not yet championed beyond calls that something like this text needs to happen.” –Tim Jensen, Oregon State University