Successful College Writing  Brief with 2009 MLA Update: Skills, Strategies, Learning Styles
Kathleen T. McWhorter is professor emerita of humanities and former director of the Learning Skills Center at Niagara County Community College. She has also been on the faculty of the State University College at Buffalo. She is the author of a number of books on reading and writing skills for developmental students, includingThe Writer’s Selections, Fifth Edition (2008),Academic Reading, Sixth Edition (2007),Efficient and Flexible Reading, Eighth Edition (2008),Active Reading Skills,Second Edition (2008), andReading Across the Disciplines: College Reading And Beyond, Third Edition (2007), as well as a  composition reader,Seeing the Pattern: Readings for Successful Writing(Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).