Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing, The: Concise Edition
ISBN: 9780205598724 | 0205598722
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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"Solidly grounded in current theory and research, yet eminently practical and teachable, "The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing "has set the standard for first-year composition courses in writing, reading, critical thinking, and inquiry." "The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing "is widely praised for its groundbreaking integration of composition research and a rhetorical perspective to writing and reading, and it features a flexible sequence of aims-based writing assignments in various academic and civic genres. Teachers and students value its clear a... MORE
| Writing Projects | |
| Thematic Contents | |
| Preface | |
| A Rhetoric for Writers | |
| Thinking Rhetorically About Good Writing | |
| Good Writing Can Vary from Closed to Open Forms David Rockwood | |
| A Letter to the Editor Thomas Merton | |
| A Festival of Rain | |
| Distinctions between Closed and Open Forms of Writing | |
| Where to Place Your W... MORE | |
| Good Writers Pose | |
| Questions about Their Subject Matter | |
| Shared Problems Unite Writers and Readers | |
| Posing Your Own Subject-Matter Questions | |
| Brittany Tinker, Can the World Sustain an American Standard of Living? | |
| Good Writers Write for a Purpose to an Audience within a Genre | |
| How Writers Think about Purpose | |
| Purpose as Rhetorical Aim | |
| Purpose as a Response to a Motivating Occasion | |
| Purpose as a Desire to Change Your Readers View | |
| How Writers Think about Audience | |
| How Writers Think about Genre Chapter Summary | |
| Brief Writing Project 1: Posing a Good Subject-Matter Problem | |
| Brief Writing Project 2: Understanding Rhetorical Context | |
| Thinking Rhetorically about Your Subject Matter | |
| Professors Value Wallowing in Complexity | |
| Learning to Wallow in Complexity | |
| Seeing Each Academic Discipline as a Field of Inquiry and Argument | |
| Good Writers Use Exploratory Strategies to Think Critically about Subject Matter Problems | |
| Freewriting | |
| Focused Freewriting | |
| Idea Mapping | |
| Dialectic Talk | |
| Playing the Believing and Doubting Game | |
| Believing and Doubting Paul Therouxs Negative View of Sports | |
| A Strong Thesis Surprises Readers with Something New or Challenging | |
| Trying to Change Your Readers View of Your Subject | |
| Giving Your Thesis Tension through Surprising Reversal Concept | |
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