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Student's Book of College English : Rhetoric, Readings, Handbook
ISBN: 9780321217141 | 0321217144
Edition: 10thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005
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This classic text includes writing instruction, readings, and a handbook section, offering readers a complete introduction to writing in one comprehensive volume. Complete coverage of the writing process covers all aspects of writing from prewriting to outlining to final draft while examples of student drafts help demystify writing. Nine chapters on the methods of rhetorical development include essays, stories, and poems as models of the mode or as springboards for writing and class discussion. Ideal for individuals interested in improving thei... MORE
| Detailed Contents | |
| Thematic Contents | |
| Review Checklists | |
| Preface to the Instructor | |
| Preface to the Student | |
| About the authors | |
| The Principles of Good Reading and Writing | |
| Getting Started | |
| Active Reading | |
| Reading for Best Results | |
| Review Checklist: Tips for Active Reading | ... MORE |
| George Orwell, "A Hanging" | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Reading Visual Images | |
| Active Writing | |
| Limiting Your Subject | |
| Examining an Advertisement | |
| Nestle, "Want a Lite Baby Ruth?" [Advertisement] | |
| Determining Your Purpose and Audience | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Writing a Thesis | |
| Prewriting | |
| Writing Drafts | |
| One Student Writing | |
| John Fousek, "My Roomate" | |
| Prewriting | |
| Writing Drafts | |
| First Draft | |
| Review Checklist: Tips for Getting Started | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Writing with a Computer | |
| Student Writing | |
| Clifford Wendell, "The Computer and I" | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Finding and Supporting a Thesis | |
| The Thesis | |
| Stating Your Thesis | |
| Supporting Your Thesis: Details | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Student Writing: Thesis and Details | |
| Thomas Healey, "You Must Be Crazy" [Student essay] | |
| Having Your Say | |
| Models of Writing | |
| Jeffrey Berman, "Crying in the Classroom" | |
| Anna Quindlen, "Women Are Just Better" | |
| Having Your Say | |
| Richard Rodriguez, "Complexion" | |
| Review Checklist: Stating a Thesis | |
| Planning a Paper: Outlining | |
| The Importance of Planning | |
| The Formal Outline | |
| The Formal Outline Format | |
| Topic and Sentence Outlines | |
| From Outline to Essay: One Student Writing | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias" | |
| Alan Benjamin, "Enough Despair to go Around" [Student essay] | |
| Having Your Say | |
| Preparing Your Outline | |
| Review Checklist: Preparing an Outline | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Writing a Paper: An Overview of Parts | |
| The Introduction | |
| The Body | |
| Topic Sentences | |
| Student Writing: Topic Sentences | |
| Hugh Nicholes, "The Mechanics of Backyard Mechanics" [Student essay] | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Transitions | |
| Paragraph Development | |
| The Conclusion | |
| Revising and Editing Your Paper | |
| One Student Revising and Editing | |
| Learning from Other Students: Peer Review | |
| Collaborative Learning | |
| Intermediate Draft: John Fousek, "My Roommate" [Student essay] | |
| Learning from Your Instructors Comments | |
| Putting It All Together | |
| Review Checklist: Revising and Editing Your Drafts | |
| Proofreading | |
| Review Checklist: Pointers for Careful Proofreading | |
| A Brief Note on Style | |
| Methods of Development | |
| Description | |
| Writing Your Descriptive Paper | |
| Student Writing: Description | |
| Nick Fiscina, "Dads Disappointment" [Student essay] | |
| Rosemary J. Sexton, "The Near West Side Way Back When" [Student essay] | |
| Models of Writing | |
| Verlyn Klinkenburg, "Out of the Wild" | |
| Roger Angell, "On the Ball" | |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Grandmothers Room" | |
| Virginia Woolf, "The Death of the Moth" | |
| Readings for Writing | |
| Dick Feagler, "Willie" | |
| Annie Dillard, "Strangers to Darkness" | |
| Reading and Writing About Poetry | |
| Mark Strand, "Black Spa" [Poem] | |
| Writing Topics | |
| Crosscurrents | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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