In addition to the full etext, activities directly from the text are available within MyWritingLab. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. Also available with MyWritingLab This title is also available with MyWritingLab an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Teachers appreciate that Ballenger provides ample opportunities for students to develop the habits of mind necessary to become critical thinkers and curious writers. Students love that this book helps them learn to write by pursuing their own curiosity. It also reinforces the assumption that genres are malleable with a new chapter on repurposing or re-genre-ing. Yet it covers a wide range of genres beyond the academic essay narrative, profile, review, ethnography, argument, and more all with a distinctive approach and personality that is lacking in other texts. Instead, it encourages students to suspend judgment, to ask questions, and to seek answers much like academics do. The Curious Writer doesn t read like a textbook or provide a formula for composing essays. In his remarkably personal and engaging voice, Bruce Ballenger makes that powerful concept central to The Curious Writer. Puts inquiry at the heart of good writing We write to learn as much as we do to express what we already know. 1 The Curious Writer (5th Edition) Bruce Ballenger Click here if your download doesn"t start automaticallyĢ The Curious Writer (5th Edition) Bruce Ballenger The Curious Writer (5th Edition) Bruce Ballenger For courses in First-Year Composition - Rhetoric.