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Steps to Writing Well : With Additional Readings (4th)

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ISBN: 9780155054516 | 0155054511
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 7/23/1998

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SummaryTable of Contents
Writing well is just a step away! Join the thousands of students who have learned to write well with Jean Wyrick's helpful instruction. STEPS TO WRITING WELL WITH ADDITIONAL READINGS, Seventh Edition, is the ultimate step-by-step guide to writing effective essays. With Wyrick's clear, practical advice and student-friendly tone, you'll find it easy to begin, organize, and revise your writing-from choosing a topic to developing your essay to polishing your prose. Interesting readings in a variety of styles offer useful examples of the types of essays you'll most often be assigned in your composition and other college classes.
To the Teacherv(6)
To the Studentxi
PART ONE THE BASICS OF THE SHORT ESSAY1(190)
1 Prewriting
3(30)
... MORE
Getting Started (or Soup-Can Labels Can Be Fascinating)
3(1)
Selecting a Subject
4(2)
Finding Your Essay's Purpose and Focus
6(1)
Pump-Primer Techniques
7(12)
After You've Found Your Focus
19(1)
Practicing What You've Learned
25(2)
Discovering Your Audience
20(1)
How to Identify Your Readers
21(6)
Practing What You've Learned
25(2)
Keeping a Journal (Talking to Yourself Does Help)
27(4)
Chapter 1 Summary
31(2)
2 The Thesis Statement
33(18)
What Is a Thesis? What Does a "Working Thesis" Do?
34(1)
Can a "Working Thesis" Changes?
34(1)
Guidelines for Writing a Good Thesis
35(5)
Avoiding Common Errors in Thesis Statements
40(4)
Practicing What You've Learned
42(2)
Assignment
44(1)
Using the Essay Map
44(5)
Practicing What You've Learned
46(1)
Assignment
47(2)
Chapter 2 Summary
49(2)
3 The Body Paragraphs
51(38)
Planning the Body of Your Essay
51(3)
Composing the Body Paragraphs
54(1)
The Topic Sentence
55(9)
Practicing What You've Learned
61(3)
Assignment
64(1)
Applying What You've Learned to Your Writing
64(1)
Paragraph Development
64(5)
Paragraph Length
69(2)
Practicing What You've Learned
70(1)
Assignment
71(1)
Applying What You've Learned to Your Writing
71(1)
Paragraph Unity
71(5)
Practicing What You've Learned
74(2)
Applying What You've Learned to Your Writing
76(1)
Paragraph Coherence
76(10)
Practicing What You've Learned
82(4)
Paragraph Sequence
86(1)
Transitions between Paragraphs
86(2)
Applying What You've Learned to Your Writing
87(1)
Chapter 3 Summary
88(1)
4 Beginnings and Endings
89(12)
How to Write a Good Lead-In
89(4)
Avoiding Errors in Lead-Ins
93(1)
Practicing What You've Learned
94(1)
How to Write a Good Concluding Paragraph
94(2)
Avoiding Errors in Conclusions
96(1)
Practicing What You've Learned
97(1)
How to Write a Good Title
97(2)
Assignment
98(1)
Applying What You've Learned to Your Writing
98(1)
Chapter 4 Summary
99(2)
5 Drafting and Revising: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
101(26)
What Is Revision?
102(1)
When Does Revision Occur?
102(2)
Myths about Revision
102(2)
Can I Learn to Improve My Revision Skills?
104(1)
Preparing to Draft and Revise
104(2)
A Revision Process for Your Drafts
106(3)
What Is Critical Thinking?
109(1)
Thinking Critically as a Writer
109(7)
A Final Checklist for Your Essay
161(1)
Benefiting from Revision Workshops
117(6)
Practicing What You've Learned
120(3)
Assignment
123(1)
Some Last Advice: How to Play with Your Mental Blocks
123(3)
Chapter 5 Summary
126(1)
6 Effective Sentences
127(30)
Developing a Clear Style
128(7)
Developing a Concise Style
135(7)
Practicing What You've Learned
140(2)
Assignment
142(1)
Developing a Lively Style
142(6)
Practicing What You've Learned
146(2)
Assignment
148(1)
Development an Emphatic Style
148(8)
Practicing What You've Learned
152(2)
Assignment
154(1)
Applying What You've Learned to Your Writing
155(1)
Chapter 6 Summary
156(1)
7 Work Logic
157(24)
Selecting the Correct Words
158(8)
Practicing What You've Learned
164(2)
Selecting the Best Words
166(14)
Practicing What You've Learned
176(2)
Assignment
178(2)
Applying What You've Learned to Your Writing
180(1)
Chapter 7 Summary
180(1)
8 The Reading-Writing Connection
181(10)
How Can Reading Well Help Me Become a Better Writer?
181(1)
How Can I Become an Analytical Reader?
182(7)
Sample Annotated Essay
185(4)
Practicing What You've Learned
189(1)
Assignment
189(1)
Chapter 8 Summary
189(1)
The Basic of the Short Essay: Part One Summary
190(1)
PART TWO PURPOSES MODES, AND STRATEGIES191(172)
9 Exposition
193(90)
The Strategies of Exposition
193(1)
Stragegy One: Development by Example
194(14)
Essay Topics
200(2)
Sample Student Essay
202(2)
Professional Essay: "So What's Bad about Being So-So? The drive for perfection is preventing too many people from enjoying sports and hobbies, says author Lisa Willson Strick (who proudly plays the piano badly but with great pleasure).
204(3)
A Revision Worksheet
207(1)
Strategy Two: Development by Process Analysis
208(18)
Essay Topic
212(2)
Sample Student Essay
214(5)
Professional Essay: "To Bid the World Farewell" By describing the embalming process in vivid, step-by-step detail, social critic and author Jessica Mitford questions the value-and necessity-of the entire procedure.
219(6)
A Revision Worksheet
225(1)
Strategy Three: Development by Comparison and Contrast
226(18)
Essay Topics
230(2)
Sample Students Essay
232(4)
Professional Essays: "Two Ways of Viewing the River" One of the United States' most beloved writers, Samuel Clements (Mark Twain), Contrasts his earlier, romantic view of the Mississippi River to his later, more practical view as an experienced riverboat pilot.
236(2)
"Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" Noted Historian Bruce Catton Compares and contrasts the two great generals of the civil war, concluding that their roles at Appomattox made possible "a peace of reconciliation."
238(5)
A Revision Worksheet
243(1)
Stragegy Four: Development by Definition
244(14)
Essay Topics
248(2)
Sample Student Essay
250(4)
Professional Essay: "The Munchausen Mystery" A Harvard professor of psychiary explains a perplexing "medical madness" in which patients use extreme and sophisticated measures to fake illnesses-in some cases, all the way to the operating room.
254(3)
A Revision Worksheet
257(1)
Strategy five: Development by Division and Classification
258(12)
Essay Topics
261(2)
Sample Student Essay
263(3)
Professional Essay: "The Plot Against People" According to well-known columnist Russell Baker, all inanimate objects may be classified into three categories: those that don't work, those that get lost, and those that break down.
266(3)
A Revision Worksheet
269(1)
Stragety Six: Development by Causal Analysis
270(13)
Essay Topics
273(2)
Sample Student Essay
275(3)
Professional Essay: "Mystery!" Noting that millions of readers love to "curl up" with murderers and corpses every night, novelist Nicholas Meyer Explains why mysteries appeal to so many people, regardless of their social, educational, or economic background.
278(3)
A Revision Worksheet
281(2)
10 Argumentation
283(32)
Developing Your Essay
284(10)
Common Logical Fallacies
294(21)
Practicing What You've Learned
297(1)
Assignment
298(1)
Essay Topics
299(2)
Sample Student Essay
301(4)
Professional Essays: "Free Pass Fails Kids" vs. "Retaining Kids No Answer" Students who fail to demonstrate academic competence should not be passed on to the next grade level, argues the editorial board of USA Today. But Monty Neill of the National Center for fair and open Testing maintains that retaining students does not improve learning and too often turns teaching into "test coaching."
305(3)
Pro-and-Con Advertisements: Gun Control
308(3)
Competing Advertisements: Energy
311(1)
A Revision Worksheet
311(4)
11 Description
315(18)
How to Write Effective Description
315(18)
Essay Topics
321(1)
Sample Student Essay
322(5)
Professional Essay: "The Discus Thrower" Surgeon Richard Selzer Describes the Last hours of a terminally ill patient-a man who is vigorously following the poet Dylan Thomas's advice: "Do not go gentle into that good night."
327(3)
A Revision Worksheet
330(3)
12 Narration
333(16)
Writing the Effective Narrative Essay
334(15)
Essay Topics
336(3)
Sample Student Essay
339(3)
Professional Essay: "Sister Flowers" Multi-talented writer and performer Maya Angelou recalls a special time in her life and shows how one person's kindness and respect can dramatically change a child's life for the better.
342(5)
A Revision Worksheet
347(2)
13 Writing Essays Using Multiple Strategies
349(14)
Sample Student Essay
352(4)
Professional Essay: "Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments" Are Gloria and Richard better looking than Bertha or Cuthbert? do you vote for the candidate who looks like a winner? Can you really identify the Italian (or Swede or Mexican or American) the group picture? In this essay, Professor Robert L. Heilbroner addresses the complex issue of streotyping, first by citing some fascinating experiments that illustrate the problem. He then analyzes the causes of type-casting, explains the harmful effects, and offers some steps for changing this negative behavior.
356(4)
A Revision Worksheet
360(3)
PART THREE SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS363(78)
14 Writing a Paper Using Research
365(2)
Focusing Your Topic
366(1)
Beginning Your Library Research
366(4)
Preparing a Working Bibliography
370(2)
Choosing and Evaluating Your Sources
372(3)
Preparing an Annotated Bibliography
375(1)
Taking Notes
375(3)
Incorporating Your Sources Material
378(3)
Avoiding Plagiarism
381(4)
Practicing What You've Learned
383(2)
Assignment
385(1)
Choosing the Documentation Style for Your Essay
385(13)
Using Supplimentary Notes
398(9)
Sample Student Paper Using MLA Style
398(9)
15 Writing about Literature
407(24)
Using Literature in the Composition Classroom
407(2)
Suggestions for Close Reading of Literature
409(1)
Steps to Reading Stories
409(2)
Annotated Story: "The Story of an Hour"
411(7)
Sample Student Essay
414(4)
Steps to Reading a Poem
418(3)
Annotated Poem: "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
421(5)
Sample Student Essay
422(4)
Some Guidelines for Writing Your Essays
426(5)
Practicing What You've Learned: "Richard Cory"
428(3)
16 Writing In-Class Assignments
431(10)
Steps to Writing Well Under Pressure
431(8)
Practicing What You've Learned
438(1)
Assignment
438(1)
Chapter 16 Summary
439(2)
PART FOUR A CONCISE HANDBOOK441(52)
17 Major Errors in Grammar
443(20)
Errors with Verbs
443(6)
Practicing What You've Learned
448(1)
Errors with Nouns
449(1)
Errors with Pronouns
450(4)
Practicing What You've Learned
453(1)
Errors with Adverbs and Adjectives
454(1)
Errors in Modifying Phrases
455(2)
Practicing What You've Learned
456(1)
Errors in Sentences
457(6)
Practicing What You've Learned
458(1)
Practicing what You've Learned
459(3)
Practicing what You've Learned
462(1)
18 A Concise Guide To Punctuation
463(22)
The Period
464(1)
The Question Mark
464(1)
The Exclamation Point
464(1)
The Comma
465(6)
Practicing What You've Learned
469(2)
The Semicolon
471(1)
The Colon
471(2)
Practicing What You've Learned
472(1)
The Apostrophe
473(1)
Quotation Marks
474(3)
Practicing What You've Learned
476(1)
Parentheses
477(1)
Brackets
478(1)
The Dash
479(1)
The Hyphen
480(1)
Underlining
481(1)
The Ellipsis Mark
482(3)
Practicing What You've Learned
483(2)
19 A Concise Guide to Mechanics
485(8)
Capitalization
485(2)
Abbreviations
487(1)
Numbers
487(3)
Practicing What You've Learned
488(2)
Spelling
490(3)
PART FIVE ADDITIONAL READINGS493(130)
20 Exposition: Development by Example
495(8)
"Darkness at Noon"
495(2)
Harold Krents
"Black Men and Public Space"
497(3)
Brent Staples
"Rambos of the Road"
500(3)
Martin Gottfried
21 Exposition: Process Analysis
503(8)
"Attitude"
503(3)
Garrison Keillor
"Ditch Diving"
506(2)
Tom Bodett
"The Jeaning of America"
508(3)
Carin C. Quinn
22 Exposition: Comparison/Contrast
511(8)
"Columbus and the Moon"
511(2)
Tom Wolfe
"My Real Car"
513(3)
Bailey White
"Life in a Bundle of Letters"
516(3)
Ellen Goodman
23 Exposition: Definition
519(8)
"The Heroes Among Us"
519(2)
Stephen M. Wolf
Excerpt from "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
521(2)
Joan Didion
"What is Poverty?"
523(4)
Jo Goodwin Parker
24 Exposition: Division/Classification
527(14)
"A Brush with Reality: Surprises in the Tube"
527(3)
David Bodanis
"Party Manners"
530(2)
Richard Grossman
"College Pressures"
532(9)
William Zinsser
25 Exposition: Causal Analysis
541(14)
"Kids in the Mall"
541(4)
William Severini Kowinski
"The Best Years of My Life"
545(4)
Betty Rollin
"The Teacher Who Changed My Life"
549(6)
Nicholas Gage
26 Argumentation
555(10)
Pro/Con Argument: The Extended School Year
555(4)
"U.S. Kids Need More School Time"
555(2)
Ellen Goodman
"The School Year Needs to Be Better, Not Longer"
557(2)
Colman McCarthy
"How about Low-Cost Drugs for Addicts?"
559(2)
Louis Nizer
"A Scientist: `I Am the Enemy"
561(4)
Ron Kline
27 Description
565(10)
"Ode to Thanksgiving"
565(3)
Michael J. Arlen
"Hush, Timmy-This Is Like a Church"
568(2)
Kurt Anderson
"The Man in the Water"
570(5)
Roger Rosenblatt
28 Narration
575(14)
"38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police"
575(3)
Martin Gansberg
"The Talkies"
578(3)
James Lileks
"Beauty When the Other Dancer Is the Self"
581(8)
Alice Walker
29 Essays for Further Analysis: Multiple Strategies and Styles
589(24)
"I Have a Dream"
589(4)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Politics and the English Language"
593(11)
George Orwell
"A Modest Proposal"
604(7)
Jonathan Swift
"The Great Person-Hole Cover Debate: A Modest Proposal"
611(2)
Lindsy Van Gelder
30 Literature
613(10)
"We Real Cool"
613(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
"Those Winter Sundays"
614(1)
Robert Hayden
"A Mystery of Heroism"
614(9)
Stephen Crane
Copyright Acknowledgments623(4)
Index627

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