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Brief Penguin Handbook with Exercises, The (with MyCompLab NEW with Pearson eText Student Acces...
ISBN: 9780205662647 | 0205662641
Edition: 3rdFormat: Package
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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Now updated with expanded documentation, research, and writing across the curriculum coverage, as well as practice exercises, The Brief Penguin Handbook with Exercises continues to revolutionize the way handbooks present information. The design and approach of The Brief Penguin Handbook with Exercises started with ideas and suggestions from real students, and thus it is uniquely successful when it comes to giving students the information they need in a format they will actually use. With unique visual guides and models for writing, research, an... MORE
| Planning, Drafting, and Revising | |
| Think as a Writer | |
| Think about the process of communication | |
| Think about how to persuade others | |
| Think about your audience | |
| Think about your credibility | |
| Think about your purpose | |
| Plan and Draft | |
| Think about the expectations of college readers | |
| Establish your goals | ... MORE |
| Explore your topic | |
| Write a working thesis | |
| Plan a strategy | |
| Compose a draft | |
| Write as a member of a team | |
| Compose Paragraphs | |
| Focus your paragraphs | |
| Organize your paragraphs | |
| Make your paragraphs coherent | |
| Consider paragraph length | |
| Link across paragraphs | |
| Write effective beginning and ending paragraphs | |
| Rewrite, Edit, and Proofread | |
| Switch from writer to reader | |
| Learn strategies for rewriting | |
| Respond to other writers drafts | |
| Edit for particular goals | |
| Proofread carefully | |
| Learn to edit the writing of others | |
| Writing for Different Purposes | |
| Read and View with a Critical Eye | |
| Become a critical reader | |
| Read actively | |
| Recognize verbal fallacies | |
| Become a critical viewer | |
| Recognize visual fallacies | |
| Write to Analyze | |
| Understand the goal of a rhetorical analysis | |
| Analyze the context and the text | |
| Organize and write a rhetorical analysis | |
| Sample rhetorical analysis | |
| Analyze images and other visual texts | |
| Write to Reflect | |
| Find a reflective topic | |
| Identify a focus | |
| Organize and write a reflection | |
| Sample reflective essay | |
| Write to Inform | |
| Find an informative topic | |
| Narrow your topic and write a thesis | |
| Organize and write an informative essay | |
| Sample informative essay | |
| Write Arguments | |
| Position arguments and proposal arguments | |
| Find an arguable topic | |
| Make an arguable claim | |
| Organize and write a position argument | |
| Sample position argument | |
| Organize and write a proposal argument | |
| Sample proposal arguments | |
| Writing in the Disciplines | |
| Learn to Write in Academic Disciplines | |
| Become an academic writer | |
| What counts as evidence in the disciplines? | |
| Write in Specific Genres | |
| Write an essay examination | |
| Write an observation | |
| Write a case study | |
| Write a lab report in the sciences | |
| Write a letter of application | |
| Write a rsum | |
| Write about Literature | |
| Become a critical reader of literature | |
| Develop an interpretation | |
| Write a literary analysis | |
| Sample literary analysis | |
| Designing and Presenting | |
| Communicate with Words, Images, and Graphics | |
| Write in multimedia | |
| Think about verbal and visual relationships | |
| Know where images and graphics work best | |
| Know where words work best | |
| Design for Print and the Screen | |
| Start with your readers | |
| Design pages | |
| Choose type | |
| Compose images | |
| Edit images | |
| Create tables, charts, and graphs | |
| Design a Web site | |
| Design Presentations | |
| Plan a presentation | |
| Design visuals for a presentation | |
| Deliver an effective presentation | |
| Researching | |
| Plan Your Research | |
| Analyze the research task | |
| Find a topic | |
| Determine what kind of research you need | |
| Draft a working thesis | |
| Start a working bibliography | |
| Find and Evaluat | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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