Writer's Options, The: Lessons in Style and Arrangement, 8th edition

The Writer's Options encourages students to investigate their writing “options” through sentence-combining and rearrangement to create more sophisticated, more effective compositions.

This classic rhetoric has taught thousands of students to write clearer, more eloquent prose.  Teeming with exercises, The Writer's Options affords students ample practice with arranging and rearranging sentences, paragraphs, and essays as a means of strengthening writing. The authors first introduce the writing process, they then move to style and revising sentences, and they culminate with rearrangement and revising whole documents.

• Sentence-combining practice. Students use sentence-combining exercises within a rhetorical context to learn how to master the conventions of grammar and compound/complex sentence constructions.
• Writing strategy. The exercises for arranging sentences, paragraphs, and essays build schema in making organization decisions to convey ideas.
• Strong exercises. Appealing and accessible examples and exercises were chosen specifically to be relevant to today's students.
• Chapter previews.  Each lesson opens with a preview of the material to aid students with the recognition of key points.
• Flexibility of use. Clearly identifiable chapter titles and independent chapters allow The Writer’s Options to be used in a variety of ways to address individual needs.

• Updated Exercises and Examples. Out-of-date or overly familiar exercises in each chapter were replaced. The new exercises represent gender, ethnic, and cultural diversity to reflect the diverse experiences of all students taking this course.
• A Different Approach to Lesson Introductions. The introductions to the lessons have been made more inviting in this edition, cast into a narrative of a class learning the various strategies. The student characters in the narrative do as much teaching as the professor for a peer-to-peer connection in learning. 
• Examples from professional prose. The introductions to the lessons include several examples from professional, published prose to illustrate the structures and strategies and to convey to students that the exercises have meaning: These are the same strategies used by working authors.