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Sequence for Academic Writing, A
ISBN: 9780321207807 | 0321207807
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005
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This brief rhetoric focuses on the key academic writing strategies of summary, synthesis, analysis, and critique. Responding to the growing interest in academic writing, this popular guide focuses on the critical reading and writing strategies necessary to help students interpret and incorporate source material into their own papers. The text employs high-interest readings from a range of disciplines to allow students to practice their summary and synthesis skills, while numerous student papers model the kinds of academic texts students are exp... MORE
| Preface for Instructors | |
| Introduction | |
| Summary, Paraphrase, and Quotation | |
| What Is a Summary? | |
| Can a Summary Be Objective? | |
| Using the Summary | |
| The Reading Process | |
| How to Write Summaries | |
| Demonstration: Summary | |
| The Future of Love: Kiss Romance Goodbye, It's Time for the Real Thing | |
| R... MORE | |
| Divide into Stages of Thought | |
| Write a One- or Two-Sentence Summary of Each Stage of Thought | |
| Write a Thesis: A One- or Two-Sentence Summary of the Entire Passage | |
| Write the First Draft of the Summary | |
| Summarizing a Narrative or Personal Essay | |
| Arrival at Manzanar | |
| Summarizing Figures and Tables | |
| Paraphrase | |
| Quotations | |
| Choosing Quotations | |
| Incorporating Quotations Into Your Sentences | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Writing Assignment: Summary | |
| Landscape in the Classic Hollywood Western | |
| Critical Reading and Critique | |
| Critical Reading | |
| Question Category 1: What Is the Author's Purpose? Does He or She Succeed in This Purpose? | |
| Writing to Inform | |
| Writing to Persuade? | |
| Too Much of a Good Thing, Greg Critser | |
| Writing To Entertain | |
| Question Category 2: To What Extent Do You Agree or Disagree With the Author? | |
| Critique | |
| How to Write Critiques | |
| Demonstration: Critique | |
| What Is the Author's Purpose in Writing? | |
| Does He or She Succeed in This Purpose? | |
| To What Extent Do You Agree or Disagree with the Author? | |
| Evaluate Assumptions | |
| Model Critique: A Critique of Greg Critser's "Too Much of a Good Thing? | |
| Discussion | |
| Writing Assignment: Critique | |
| Driving Down the Highway, Mourning the Death of American Radio, Brent Staples | |
| Writing as a Process | |
| Writing as Thinking | |
| Stages of the Writing Process | |
| Stage 1: Understanding the Task | |
| Papers in the Academic Disciplines | |
| Stage 2: Gathering Data | |
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