Download or read book Writers at Work: The Short Composition Student's Book written by Ann O. Strauch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Writers at Work series prepares ESL students to tackle academic essay writing. Writers at Work: The Short Composition teaches low-intermediate to intermediate-level students how to compose multi-paragraph short compositions. Students tap into their personal experience to organize their writing, using academic modes of organization such as exemplification and cause and effect. In addition, students learn how to write about works of fiction and nonfiction by summarizing and citing sources.