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Occasions for Writing: Evidence, Idea, And Inquiry
ISBN: 9781413012064 | 141301206X
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/2/2007
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Is it possible that a book of readings can help you develop your writing skills and guide you to success in your composition course? It can when the book is OCCASIONS FOR WRITING, an exciting new collection of readings that helps you discover how everything you encounter in life is an occasion or reason to write! In addition to its large selection of untraditional, fascinating readings, this reader contains effective "Occasions for Writing" activities that help you to look closely at written text, photographs, other media?and literally everythi... MORE
| A Brief Guide To Writing | |
| The Practice of Writing | |
| Why Am I Writing Essays? An Occasion for Writing | |
| Using Your Voice and Finding Your Character | |
| Moving from Evidence to Idea to Essay | |
| Evidence | |
| Idea | |
| Essay | |
| How to Reveal the Discoveries? Analysis | |
| Interpretation | |
| Reflection and Meani... MORE | |
| Making Evidence and Discovery Work Together | |
| An Exploratory Essay: A Student''s Progress | |
| Using Images and Experience as Evidence | |
| The Persuasive Essay: A Student''s Progress | |
| Using Text and Experience as Evidence | |
| An Introduction to Visual Understanding | |
| Keeping Your Eyes Open and Learning to See | |
| A Strategy for Visual Understanding | |
| Looking and Responding | |
| Analyzing Images: Categorizing to Make Sense of What You See | |
| Focal Point and Emphasis | |
| Figure-Ground Contrast | |
| Grouping: Proximity & Similarity | |
| Color | |
| Continuation | |
| Line | |
| Closure | |
| Narration or Story | |
| Context | |
| The Whole Composition | |
| Communicating What You See | |
| A Sample Student Paper, Ryan Pollack, Visible Feelings | |
| Themes for Writing | |
| Stories | |
| Cluster 1: Mark Doty, Souls on Ice | |
| Look at Your Fish | |
| Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible | |
| Cluster 2: Virginia Woolf, Portrait of a Londoner | |
| Late Victorians | |
| Aching for a Self | |
| Anthology Readings: Diane Ackerman, In the Memory Mines | |
| Brian Doyle, Yes | |
| The Tipping Point | |
| The Most Dangerous Beauty | |
| Identity | |
| Cluster 1: Brent Staples, Just Walk on By | |
| How It Feels to Be Colored Me | |
| The Myth of the Latin Woman | |
| Cluster 2: Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation | |
| The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
| Stranger in the Village. | |
| Anthology Readings: Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time | |
| Ain''t I a Woman. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women | |
| Gender | |
| Cluster1: Susan Brownmiller, Femininity. | |
| Men and Women Talking | |
| Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy | |
| Cluster 2: Paul Fussell, Uniforms | |
| A Woman''s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source? | |
| Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self | |
| Anthology Readings: Bernard Cooper, Burl''s | |
| About Men | |
| Being a Man | |
| Ain''t I a Woman | |
| A Vindication of the Rights of Women | |
| Families | |
| Cluster 1: Chang Rae Lee, Coming Home Again | |
| Stone Soup | |
| Family Values | |
| Cluster 2: David Sedaris, Cyclops | |
| bell hooks, Inspired Eccentricity | |
| No-Name Woman | |
| Anthology Readings: Diane Ackerman, In the Memory Mines | |
| Burl''s. Brian Doyle, Yes | |
| Education | |
| Cluster 1: Frederick Douglass: Learning to Read and Write | |
| Graduation | |
| Labyrinthine | |
| Cluster 2: Eudora Welty, Clamorous to Learn | |
| Claiming an Education | |
| The Banking Concept of Education | |
| Anthology Readings: Roland Barthes, Toys | |
| On Not Looking at Pictures | |
| The Curse of Talent | |
| The Allegory of the Cave | |
| A Vindication of the Rights of Women | |
| Nature and the Environment | |
| Cluster 1: Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth | |
| Spring Comes to Hogeye | |
| Transfiguration | |
| Cluster 2: William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness | |
| The Desert World | |
| The Stone Horse | |
| Anthology Readings: Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point | |
| On Seeing England for the First Time | |
| The Most Dangerous Beauty | |
| The Loss of the Creature | |
| Science and Technology | |
| Cluster 1: Jacob Bronowski, The Nature of Scientific Reasoning | |
| The Art of Science | |
| The Bird of Paradise | |
| Cluster 2: Sven Birkerts, Into the Electronic Millennium | |
| A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness | |
| Crickets, Bats, Cats, and Chaos | |
| Anthology Readings: Diane Acke | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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