Sin Boldly! : Dr. Dave's Guide to Writing the College Paper
ISBN: 9780465091591 | 0465091598
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date: 8/10/2004
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Cheeky, original, and decidedly practical to boot, Sin Boldly! is unlike any other writing handbook available. Jammed with sage advice, genuine encouragement, and surprising examples (of how to write and how not to write), this book gives beginning writers and confident students alike an easy-to-follow roadmap for improving one of the most important skills for success. En route to Sin Boldly!-induced, A+ paper bliss, readers encounter such topics as Choosing a Topic and Telling Your Story ("K.I.S.S.-Keep It Simple, Stupid") Literary Games (feat... MORE
| Introduction: What It's All About | p. xi |
| Some Really Crude Basics | p. 1 |
| What Is a College Paper? | |
| Format and Length | |
| Timing Counts! | |
| How Much Work Do I Have to Do? | |
| Picking Your Nose at 4 a.m. | |
| Choosing a Topic and Telling Your Story | p. 9 |
| K.I.S.S. | |
| Plagiarize | |
| Brainstorming | ... MORE |
| Why Must We Fight? | |
| Daring Dissent | |
| Swindler's List | |
| Finding Patterns: Comparisons and Contrasts | |
| Freeing the Slaves | |
| Look for the Conflict | |
| End with a Bang | |
| Before Plunging In | |
| In the Beginning ... Pulling Your Creation Out of the Void | p. 28 |
| Do I Really Need an Outline? | |
| What's in a Title? | |
| The Topic Paragraph | |
| Topic Sentences | |
| Keep the Flow Going | |
| Sentences and Paragraphs | |
| Be Specific | |
| Show; Don't Tell | |
| Choosing a Voice | p. 39 |
| Who Must You Pretend to Be? | |
| Faking Other Voices | |
| Sin Boldly! | |
| Dialogue | |
| Voices to Avoid | |
| Dissing the Prof | |
| Imagining Your Audience | |
| Ungrammatical Voices | |
| Breezy or Pompous? | |
| Overwriting | |
| Plain-Style American Populism | p. 54 |
| Yankee Doodle's Macaroni | |
| McMurphy's "Average Asshole" | |
| The All-American Con-Man | |
| Empowering or Cowering | |
| PC Patty | |
| Business and Other Jargon | |
| Bushwhacking Bush | |
| Choosing Words | p. 67 |
| Piss and Urine | |
| Christian Dogs | |
| Being Niggardly About the Paddy Wagon | |
| Snobs and Slobs | |
| Cliches | |
| Say What You Mean--Mean What You Say | |
| The Prepositionless Excremental | |
| Sexist Language | |
| Past and Present | |
| Poetic Prose | |
| Arguing Your Case | p. 87 |
| No Right or Wrong | |
| Make It Yours | |
| Battle Tactics | |
| VGs, AEs, and OAs | |
| Show What You Know and Define Your Terms | |
| Keep Your Argument Grounded | |
| Refute! Reply! Fight Back! | |
| The Propaganda Machine | |
| How to Lose Your Case | p. 102 |
| Circular Reasoning | |
| Just Say No to "Just" | |
| Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc | |
| Ad Hominem | |
| False Choices | |
| Non Sequitur | |
| Teleological False Assumptions | |
| Blaming the Victim | |
| Emotionally Logical | |
| For Instance: Three Examples | p. 110 |
| "Robert Frost: Gentle New England Satanist" | |
| "Bouncing into Graceland" | |
| "Women Are Like Boxcars" | |
| Literary Games | p. 127 |
| What Is "Literature," Anyway? | |
| The "Deep Inner Meaning" Debate | |
| The Voice Behind the Voice | |
| Searching for Symbols | |
| Texts in Context | |
| Class and the Classroom Context | |
| Cynics and Essentialists | |
| RaceGenderClass | |
| Francobabble for Freshmen | |
| Morality Plays | |
| Dr. Dave's Dirty Dozen, or the Twelve Deadly Sins of Writing About Literature | |
| The Social Sciences | p. 158 |
| What's the Dif? | |
| Free to Be? Free at All? | |
| Nature and Nurture | |
| Praise and Blame | |
| Cause and Effect Again | |
| Constructed Snobs and Essential Slobs | |
| Grammatical Horros | p. 171 |
| ONW--Omit Needless Words | |
| NAS--Not a Sentence | |
| MM--Misplaced Modifier | |
| //--Parallelism Problem | |
| A [not equal] They | |
| AWK--Awkward | |
| OOG--One Step Beyond AWK | |
| BB--Back-to-Back | |
| Typo--Typographical Error | |
| SP--Spelling | |
| WW--Wrong Word | |
| Big Brother Bill Cannot Be Trusted | |
| Some Common Stupid Mistakes | p. 180 |
| Its, It's, and Its' | |
| One's and Theirs | |
| The Split Infinitive | |
| "Hopefully" and Other Controversies | |
| Adjective or Adverb? | |
| Prepositions and Their Pronouns | |
| Fewer and Less | |
| Who and Whom | |
| Unclear Referents | |
| I, Me, Mine | |
| Subjunctive Dreams | |
| Plurals | |
| Hyphens | |
| Must of Alot of Attitude | |
| Edit Carefully! | |
| "Punct'uation!?!" | p. 194 |
| Clueless High School Teachers | |
| Commas | |
| Semicolons | |
| Colons | |
| Quotation Marks | |
| Block That Quote! | |
| Parentheses (), Brackets [], and Dashes | |
| Citing Sources Successfully | p. 204 |
| MLA Style | |
| APA Style | |
| Citing Cyberspace | |
| Some Sample Quizzes--Just for Fun! | p. 211 |
| Test Your Skills | |
| Why Punctuation Is Important | |
| Why Punctuation Is Important: Two | |
| Concluding Sermon | p. 216 |
| The Author's Rap Sheet | p. 218 |
| Index | p. 219 |
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David Williams teaches full-time as a part-time English professor at George Mason University.
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