Writing for College and Beyond

Writing for College and Beyond: Life Lessons from the College Composition Classroom explains how the many skills taught in the Freshman Composition course apply at work and in life.

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CJ Kent, PhD is the Assistant Professor of Visual Culture and Program Director for Art History at Montclair State University. She received her dissertation on art writing from the CUNY Graduate Center, and oversaw the implementation of a new writing program as the Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Mercy College. While working as an international coach, she founded Script & Type to help young professionals and artists better present themselves in writing and in person across different cultural contexts.

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Acknowledgments Foreword Preface You Know to Read, Not How to Read The KISS of Classroom Behavior: Knowing Important Soft Skills Netiquette Is Vital General Remarks on Writing Abstracts Aren't: Analysis and Synthesis The Argument Essay for a Promotion and Raise Causal Analysis: Why That Happened Compare and Contrast for the Job Cover Letter Define and Classify to Know What's What The Personal Essay Isn't About You Information in the Library Online Searches and Keeping It Safe The Research Paper Is Your Future Citations, Plagiarism, and Not Getting Fired for Dishonesty Present What You Know; Don't Hide What You Don't Punctuation: It's Not Just for Emojis Spelling: Spell Check Doesn't Work To Succeed, Avoid Some Common Grammar Errors 8 Parts of Speech: There's Nothing to Say without Them Some Sentence Fundamentals On Editing and Revising. <p