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Writing : A Guide for College and Beyond, Brief Edition Spiral
ISBN: 9780205696208 | 0205696201
Edition: 2ndFormat: Spiral Bound
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2010
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Writing: A Guide for College and Beyond, Brief Edition Spiral, 2/e uses written instruction and visual tools to teach students how to read, write, and research effectively for different purposes. Lester Faigleyrs"s clear and inviting teaching style and Dorling Kindersleyrs"s accessible and striking design combine to give students a textbook that shows them what readers and writers actually do. Unique, dynamic presentations of reading, writing, and research processes in the text bring writing alive for students and speak to students with many le... MORE
| The Writer As Explorer | |
| Making Discoveries | |
| Look with new eyes | |
| Explore the world | |
| Find a territory | |
| Use guides | |
| Reading | |
| to Explore | |
| Become a critical reader | |
| Look with a critical eye | |
| Read actively | |
| Recognize fallacies | |
| Respond as a ... MORE | |
| Planning a Journey | |
| Determine your direction | |
| Write a thesis | |
| Plan your route | |
| Returning and Revising | |
| Evaluate your draft | |
| Respond to others | |
| Pay attention to details last | |
| Thinking Visually | |
| Communicate with visuals and words | |
| Understand visual and verbal concepts | |
| Know when to use images and graphics | |
| Take pictures that aren't boring | |
| Compose images | |
| Create tables, charts, and graphs | |
| Designing Documents | |
| Start with your readers | |
| Use headings and subheadings effectively | |
| Design pages | |
| Understand typography | |
| Delivering Presentations | |
| Plan a presentation | |
| Design effective visuals | |
| Give a memorable presentation | |
| Working as a Team | |
| Organize a team | |
| Understand the team process | |
| Work as a team | |
| The Writer As Guide | |
| Writing Effectively in College | |
| Understand the demands of writing in college | |
| Think about your aim | |
| Think about your genre | |
| Think about your audience | |
| Think about your credibility | |
| Think about building on the work of others | |
| Become an effective writer | |
| Student visual analysis | |
| Got Roddick? | |
| Write to Reflect | |
| Reflections | |
| Writing reflections | |
| An effective reflection | |
| Some Lines for a Younger Brother | |
| Explore current issues | |
| How to read reflections | |
| Let it Snow | |
| My Dropout Boyfriend Kept Dropping In | |
| Just Another Soldier | |
| Mother Tongue | |
| How to write a reflection | |
| Student essay | |
| The Miracle Quilt | |
| Projects | |
| Write to Inform | |
| Observations | |
| Writing observations | |
| An effective observation | |
| Life on the Rocks: The Galápagos | |
| Explore current issues | |
| How to read observations | |
| Monster in a Ryokan | |
| Photographs of Japanese-Americans at Manzanar | |
| The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China | |
| The Travelogue of an Astronomer | |
| How to write an observation | |
| Student essay | |
| Playing in Traffic: How Parallel Play Helps Preschool Children "Merge" into Group Play | |
| Projects | |
| Informative Essays | |
| Reporting information | |
| Effective informative writing | |
| The Emperor's Giraffe | |
| Explore current issues | |
| How to read informative writing | |
| How Do I Love Thee? | |
| Affairs of the Lips: Why We Kiss | |
| Learning to Lie | |
| Minds of their Own | |
| How to write to inform | |
| Student essay | |
| The Life Cycle of Stars | |
| Projects | |
| Write to Analyze | |
| Rhetorical and Literary Analyses | |
| Writing to analyze | |
| Writing a rhetorical analysis | |
| Writing a visual analysis | |
| Writing a literary analysis | |
| An effective analysis | |
| Straight from the Heart | |
| Explore current issues | |
| How to read analyses | |
| The Collapse of Big Media: The Young and the Restless | |
| The Stata Center | |
| Federal Express Logo | |
| Volkswagen Beetle | |
| Everyday Use | |
| Studentliterary analysis | |
| Make Something of Yoursel;: Symbolism in Alice Walker's Everyday Us | |
| Love in LA | |
| How to write an analysis | |
| Student rhetorical analysis | |
| Biting the Hands That Feed America | |
| Projects | |
| Causal Analyses | |
| Writing to analyze causes | |
| An effective causal analysis | |
| Pesticides, Parasite May Cause Frog Deformities | |
| Explore current issues | |
| How to read causal analyses | |
| The Future of Marriage | |
| Pushing Paper Out the Door | |
| Why Should I Be Nice To You? Coffee Shops and the Politics of Good Service | |
| Strive We Must | |
| The New Girl Order | |
| Operation Iraqi Freedom Leaflets | |
| How to write a causal analysis | |
| Student analysis | |
| Borrowing Bling: The Appeal of Hip-hop to Young White Men | |
| Projects | |
| Write Arguments | |
| Evaluations | |
| Writing to evaluate | |
| An effective evaluation | |
| The Aesthetics of Wind Power | |
| Explore current issues | |
| How to read evaluations | |
| Web 2.l0 Forum: The Sleep of Reason | |
| Web 2.l0 Forum: Knowledge Access as a Public Good | |
| Gangsta Rap and American Culture | |
| The Nitpicking Nation | |
| How to write an evaluation | |
| Studentessay | |
| Stop Loss or Loss of Trus | |
| Projects | |
| Arguments for a Position | |
| Writing a position argument | |
| An effective position argument | |
| Take My Privacy, Please! | |
| Explore current issues | |
| How to read position arguments | |
| What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? | |
| When Handouts Keep Coming, the Food Line Never Ends | |
| The Color of Mayhem | |
| Hillary vs, Grand Theft Aut | |
| No Human Being Is Illegal | |
| Buff Daddy | |
| Food Cops Bust Cookie Monster | |
| How to write a position argument | |
| Student argument | |
| Speech Doesn't Have to be Pretty to be Protected | |
| Projects | |
| Proposal Arguments | |
| Making a proposal argument | |
| An effective proposal argument | |
| The Declaration of Independence | |
| Explore current issues | |
| How to read proposal arguments | |
| A Trail of DNA and Data | |
| Coal in a Nice Shade of Green | |
| Building the Interstate Highway System | |
| Why Bother? | |
| The Micromagic of Microcredit | |
| How to write a proposal argument | |
| Student argument | |
| Let's Make It a Real Melting Pot with Presidential Hopes for All | |
| Projects | |
| The Writer As Researcher | |
| Planning Research | |
| Analyze the research task | |
| Ask a question | |
| Determine what you need | |
| Draft a working thesis | |
| Search using keywords | |
| Start a working bibliography | |
| Finding Sources in Databases | |
| Find information in databases | |
| Construct effective searches | |
| Locate elements of a citation | |
| Finding Sources on the Web | |
| Find information on the Web | |
| Evaluate Web sources | |
| Find visual sources online | |
| Finding Print Sources | |
| Find books | |
| Find journal articles | |
| Evaluate print sources | |
| Exploring in the Field | |
| Conduct interviews | |
| Administer surveys | |
| Make observations | |
| Writing the Research Paper | |
| Plan your organization | |
| Avoid plagiarism | |
| Quote sources without plagiarizing | |
| Summarize and paraphrase sources without plagiarizing | |
| Incorporate quotations | |
| Incorporate visuals | |
| MLA Documentation | |
| Elements of MLA documentation | |
| Entries in the list of works cited | |
| In-text citations in MLA style | |
| Books in MLA-style works cited | |
| Periodicals in MLA-style works cited | |
| Web sources in MLA-style works cited | |
| Other sources in MLA-style works cited | |
| Sample MLA paper | |
| George Abukar, It's Time to Shut Down the Identity Theft Racket | |
| APA Documentation | |
| APA citations | |
| In-text citations in APA style | |
| Books in APA-style references list | |
| Periodicals in APA-style references list | |
| Web sources in APA-style references list | |
| Other sources in APA-style references list | |
| Sample APA paper | |
| Blair Zacharias, Parking Design Recommendations for Publicly-Funded Commercial Redevelopment Projects | |
| Appendices | |
| Writing Essay Exams | |
| Creating Portfolios | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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