At a Glance : Essays
ISBN: 9780618957637 | 0618957634
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/1/2008
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The Fourth Edition of AT A GLANCE: ESSAYS guides students through the process of prewriting and writing essays in specific and combined rhetorical modes. This text features new readings, optional text-based writing instruction, a research paper unit, a brief handbook, and an emphasis on critical thinking.
| Reading for Writing Text-Based Writing and Reading | |
| Related Writing Types of Writing | |
| Kinds of Support for Text-Based | |
| Writing Basic Documentation in Text-Based | |
| Writing Documentation in Action | |
| Writer's Guidelines at a Glance | |
| Reading for Writing | |
| The Essay and Its Parts | |
| The Essay Defined A Sample Essay | |
| "R... MORE | |
| The Thesis Defined Sources for the Thesis | |
| Writing the Thesis Patterns of Support for the Thesis | |
| Special Paragraphs Within the Essay | |
| Writer's Guidelines at a Glance | |
| The Essay and Its Parts | |
| The Writing Process: Prewriting | |
| The Writing Process Defined Prewriting | |
| Strategies Writer's | |
| Guidelines at a Glance: Prewriting | |
| The Writing Process: Writing, Revising, and Editing | |
| Writing Your First Draft Revising | |
| Your Writing Adding Editing to Revision | |
| Writer's Guidelines at a Glance | |
| Writing, Revising, and Editing | |
| Descriptive Narration: Moving | |
| Through Time and Space | |
| A Natural Combination of Narration and Description | |
| The Narrative Pattern | |
| The Descriptive Pattern Order for Descriptive Narration | |
| Time and Space Practicing Patterns of Descriptive Narration | |
| Examining Essays of Descriptive Narration Student Writer | |
| "My First Real Fire," | |
| "The Jacket," | |
| Topics for Essays of Descriptive | |
| Narration Writer's Guidelines at a Glance: Descriptive Narration | |
| Exemplification: Writing with Examples Writing | |
| Essays of Exemplification Practicing | |
| Patterns of Exemplification Examining | |
| Essays of Exemplification Student Writer | |
| "Hungering for Sounds of Silence," | |
| Professional Writer: "Who's Cheap?" | |
| Topics for Essays of Exemplification | |
| Writer's Guidelines at a Glance: Exemplification | |
| Analysis by Division: Examining the Parts | |
| Writing Essays of Analysis by Division | |
| Practicing Patterns of Analysis by Division | |
| Examining Essays of Analysis by Division | |
| Student Writer: "Prison as a Community," | |
| "Food, Service Hit and Miss at Gianno's," | |
| Topics for Essays of Analysis by Division | |
| Writer's Guidelines at a Glance: Analysis by Division | |
| Process Analysis: Writing About Doing | |
| Writing Essays of Process Analysis | |
| Practicing Patterns of Process Analysis | |
| Examining Essays of Process Analysis | |
| Student Writer: "The Skinny on Working for a Dermatologist," | |
| Professional Writer: "Fast, Sleek, and Shiny: Using the Internet to Help Buy New Cars," | |
| Preston Gralla Topics for Essays of Process | |
| Analysis Writer's Guidelines at a Glance: Process Analysis | |
| Cause and Effect: Determining Reasons and Results Writing | |
| Essays of Cause and Effect Practicing | |
| Patterns of Cause and Effect Examining | |
| Essays of Cause and Effect Student Writer | |
| "Getting High and Living Low," Sergio Ramos | |
| Professional Writer: "The Ghetto Made Me Do It," | |
| Francis Flaherty Topics for Essays of Cause and Effect | |
| Writer's Guidelines at a Glance: Cause and Effect | |
| Comparison and Contrast: Showing Similarities and Differences | |
| Writing Essays of Comparison and Contrast | |
| Practicing Patterns of Comparison and Contrast | |
| Examining Essays of Comparison and Contrast | |
| Student Writer: "The Piper Cherokee and the Cessna 172," | |
| Brittany Markovic Professional Writer | |
| "From B'Wood to the 'Hood," | |
| Topics for Essays of Comparison and Contrast | |
| Writer's Guidelines at a Glance: Comparison and Contrast | |
| Definition: Clarifying Terms Writing | |
| Essays of Definition Practicing Patterns of Definition | |
| Examining Essays of Definition | |
| Student Writer: "Modern Mother," | |
| Professional Writer: "Whose Values," | |
| Topics for Essays of Definition | |
| Writer's Guidelines at a Glance: Definition | |
| Argument: Writing to Influence | |
| Writing Essays of Argument Practicing | |
| Patterns of Argument Examining Essays of Argument | |
| Student Writer: "Teaching Our Kids to Shoot 'Em Up," | |
| Professional Writer: "Graffiti: Taking a Closer Look?" | |
| Christopher Grant Topics for Essays of Argument | |
| Writer's Guidelines at a Glance: Argument | |
| The Research Paper The Research Paper | |
| Defined Ten Steps to Writing a Research Paper | |
| Student Example: "Zoos--An Endangered Species?" | |
| Writer's Guidelines at a Glance: The Research Paper | |
| Handbook Subjects and Verbs | |
| Kinds of Sentences Sentence Problems | |
| Sentence Combining Variety in Sentences | |
| Parallel Structure Omissions | |
| When Parts Are Missing Verbs | |
| Pronouns Adjectives and Adverbs | |
| Avoiding Wordy Phrases | |
| Punctuations Capitalization | |
| Index | |
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